Interestingly, I'm kind of the opposite. I've backpacked for many years and only in the last few started doing a little scrambling, or at least "going out to scramble to the top of this" as opposed to just walking up something from a ridgeline I'm backpacking across <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> - just as an excuse to have something else to do in the mountains, I also just love being out in the mountains. so any another excuse to get out on a possibly more interesting day trip or side trip is fun <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> So I could say, no, I don't climb, or at least I don't consider I do because I do nothing techincal, but backpacking got me into scrambling pretty nicely.
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