[mauvehaus]

Your social "things" adapt somewhat to the environment. Since moving to rural Vermont, my wife and I have taken up hunting, and she has gotten back into fishing. There's a group of (mostly older) people who get together Wednesday mornings and shoot muzzleloaders and have coffee. I join them when work allows.

As a happy side-effect, it let me get into muzzleloader season with some support from people with a lot of experience. In Vermont, muzzleloader season falls during the damnable month between Thanksgiving and New Year's when the days just keep getting shorter, and there isn't usually enough snow (where we live) for snowshoeing. Having a reason to get out in the woods and be really present and observing nature when I otherwise would have trouble is outstanding for my mental health during that month.

That's not to say there aren't opportunities to climb. A rock gym just opened near-enoughish-by and I have friends who climb outside weekly at a nearby crag.