12/2/2023 0 Comments Ice climber logoThe kids were Level 5 gang-bangers and sex offenders. Every summer ex-Marine JJ Lercad and I would take the kids to Colorado to camp and climb. For five years, two days a week, I’d get the hoods up, get them fed, then load six of them in a van and go climbing at one of the many nearby limestone cliffs, or head to the granite at Enchanted Rock. In two days, I’d log a week’s worth of hours plus eight hours of overtime. I was the rock climbing and yoga instructor. I was 32 years old, a skinny dirtbag rock climber looking for a job that provided maximum unpaid time off when I took a staff position at a wilderness therapeutic camp in Lockhart, Texas with an option of working 48 hours straight.
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