Hi, my name’s Allie, and along with my climbing partner and boyfriend, Nick, I’m here to introduce you to Projecting Reality. Nick and I are both rock climbers and outdoor enthusiasts. We met in Flagstaff, Arizona several years ago, but we are in the middle of a move to San Carlos, an area outside of San Francisco where tech companies—Google, Oracle, Facebook—reign supreme. In contrast to many people our age, who would be content to never leave their gentrified neighborhoods or their company’s campuses, we hope to use the Bay Area as a gateway to Yosemite. In Yosemite, we will pursue big wall climbing—multi-day rock climbing—as a team.

Even if you aren’t a climber, there’s something beautiful about seeing someone push past their physical and emotional limits to ascend a piece of rock. Climbers call the process of working through limits projecting. As you piece together a series of move on your project, you gain a new understanding of climbing and your personal hang-ups. Often, the changes you need to make are subtle—a slightly different way of grabbing a hold, a little more boldness or dynamic movement in your approach. Over the years, Nick and I have started to apply the projecting mindset to our lives. We have learned to carve out time to climb, train, and adventure.

As our generation tends to value virtual experiences over real experiences, we hope to use our blog to talk about experiences of real danger and real adventure. We want to document both our successes and our failures, and maybe, we can produce a blueprint for other millennial adventurers. It’s easy to become entrenched in social media, video games, and status symbols, but we don’t all value representations of reality over reality. Nick and I want adventure you have to pay for with hours in the gym and genuine commitment. In other words, we are projecting our reality.

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