The actual first time they met was on Claire's birthday in 2019 after Claire and her friend barely survived a rock climbing route in El Dorado Canyon in Colorado. Daniel was briefed on the story and thought "this girl was going to die soon" and paid no attention to any future of her. A few months later they met again in another Colorado climbing area called Lime Creek. Claire was alarmingly funny and Daniel reconsidered Claire's choices in reckless climbing partners and thought that he could mentor her in plugging gear. A few months later it was Fall, and Daniel and Claire were paired up as climbing partners for a trip to Red Rock in Nevada. They spent a week together getting moderately lost in the vast canyons, laughing nonstop, and chatting for hours on the longs hikes to and from their objectives. At the end of the trip Daniel tried to kiss Claire in which she laughed in his face at the idea. She was only blissful because of the climbing, not him.. right? That winter Daniel and Claire discovered they both loved horror movies and take out food in addition to rock climbing. Daniel made Claire a spreadsheet to track their classic horror movie progress, and it was then, by way of organizational skills in combination of spooky media consumption that Claire started questioning her feelings about this kind man. But what sealed the deal was a nightshift text conversation between Claire and one of her future bridesmaids. She exclaimed "Let me get this right. You share the same values, you love doing all the same things together, and you simply just like hanging out with him. Get it together Claire". Claire then in fact, got it together.