Honesty I know a bunch of people who are burntout climbers and burntout geologists - sounds like a blast. Fun mineralogy with climbing that’s not…super exotic but still fun? I’d pay for it.
Some of those climbs are dangerous though. The Chambless Skarn has a vertical wall of solid epidote you have to scale to reach a massive pocket of world-class hedenbergite, at the top of the mountain. That wall is a few stories tall, and your only grip is the side walls of the rock around you.
lightedman|4 months ago