Rock Climbing

Technology really is wonderful isn’t it? There isn’t a chance in the world you’d ever get us to go anywhere near an actual mountain for a simple hike and a picnic, never mind find us dangling from the side of one by a rope over a gaping chasm. But with indoor climbing walls, like the 30 foot one with eight climbing stations and a number of smaller boulder areas at Boston University, we can experience what it’s like to scale the walls of a mountain without the actual, you know, impending death. Tonight they host an open house. Free. 5 - 7 p.m. Boston University’s Fitness and Recreation Center, 915 Commonwealth Ave., Boston.

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