True, wall climbing doesn't help overall route finding much; but my main mention of it was related to helping with the fear of heights and getting used to looking for handholds/footholds as well as to the vertical orientation and for learning some of the basics of rock climbing, all of which come in handy outdoors in places like the e-ledges, the Rockwell shortcut, and the final chute, to name a few familiar examples. Learning to wall climb gave me a huge confidence boost in what I could do and attempt, and it changed my entire mental outlook on all of this. I now look at everything, from the e-ledges to even some day wanting to try climbing the East Face, a whole lot differently than I did only 2-3 years ago in my pre-wall climbing days.
CaT
