\n\t\t\t\tWoverine Cirque, Wasatch Mountains, Utah (Cedric Gamble)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl>
\n\t\t<\/div>\n\nIt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the shape of things that catches my eye.\u00c2\u00a0 For something directly in front of me I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t just see the identifiable object, I see how it can be touched, what kind of friction it has, how an ice tool would go into it.\u00c2\u00a0 I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t help imagining what it would be like to literally climb the walls around me.\u00c2\u00a0 On a larger scale I see the beauty and challenge of a line.\u00c2\u00a0 In school my imagination used the architecture and pictures around me to escape.\u00c2\u00a0 Now I explore and participate with The Geometry of Nature through climbing and skiing.\u00c2\u00a0 Every mountain is so beautiful and so different.\u00c2\u00a0 Their geometry, micro or macro, is both the inspiration and the goal.<\/p>\n
– Cedric Gamble, IMG Guide<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
October 17, 2014 We at IMG are fortunate to have one of our awesome guides, Cedric Gamble, hanging out with us in the office this week while Tye’s out guiding our 3 x 3 trek in Nepal.\u00c2\u00a0 We asked him for some nice blog material, and he delivered! School is a hazy memory of teachers, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12695,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guide-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12692"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12701,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12692\/revisions\/12701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>School is a hazy memory of teachers, peers, and classes all weaving in and out of daydreams.\u00c2\u00a0 The colors, the smells, the feelings all start to bleed together into a pool I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t care to dip into.\u00c2\u00a0 But the daydreams!\u00c2\u00a0 Pictures and maps were my hall pass to faraway lands where my inexperience and skill were of no limit to my climbing. I envisioned first ascents and wilderness on a scale I couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t actually comprehend.\u00c2\u00a0 The period bell would launch me into the hallway but as I sat down in my next class I had my ice tools and crampons.\u00c2\u00a0 Swinging from the projector screen I could reach up and hook across the drop ceiling on the metal spacers. Traversing the drywall to the door I was thankful for leashless tech tools.\u00c2\u00a0 Then I would find myself back at my desk with the school day flowing along, ice tools gone.<\/p>\n