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If Andrew Andress had free time as a teen or young adult, he could usually be found cycling.
He loved being outdoors and the rush of competing and training but after years dedicated to the sport, the Abilene native realized he was spending an awful lot of his time alone on a bike. “It was very isolating,” he says.
At the invitation of a buddy, Andress had rock climbed outdoors a few times and enjoyed it. It wasn’t until he visited his first bouldering gym with a friend about seven years ago, though, that he realized he’d found his new sport. “I fell in love with the community aspect of it,” he says. “You’re still training and getting a workout in, but there’s also down time for conversation and people become friends pretty quickly as they’re trying to figure out routes or solve problems.”