
Getting ready to go rock-climbing (er...tower-climbing) with a few buddies...and with a strangely wistful expression on my face (I'm in the red).

That rope ladder behind me was hard as fuck to climb up. The spaces between the slats were as tall as I am -- now, I have no problem pulling up my own weight on a solid platform, but hoisting yourself up on thin wooden slats on a jangling, swaying rope ladder is a little bit tougher.