This Merit Badge was a lot of fun and was very exciting both climbing and belaying, however, rapelling was very scary.
I climbed up six or so different rock walls of varying difficulties, and belayed for people while they did their climbs.
I also learned to tie all of the belaying knots, as well as all of the ones that you tie to yourself.
Then, at the end of the class, it came down to doing three rapels. The first one, we did for practice on a chair, next we went up a small rock wall on the second floor, and we each did a practice rapel down the short side. Then we climbed up again, and had the choice of going off the short side again, or the long way down. I was very nervous about this, however I decided to go down the long way and was very glad that I did.
