Thursday, May 29, 2008

Marble Boulder and Suzuki Boulder

Wednesday was an off day and was supposed to be a great day to hang out with some cool people and check out the Marble Boulder in the morning and then the Suzuki Boulder in RMNP in the evening.

The morning went well and I'm happy to say that I was able to send Drew's problem Tobasco to the Eardrum V3 on my second go of the day! I was pretty psyched on that and so we just ended up chilling really for the rest of that session and Marty and I got ourselves worked over on a really cool new problem just to the right of the Tobasco's that could possibly be a V4. It works off of a really cool right and sloper and left hand crimp then a huge reach up and over with the left to a bad crimp. I can't wait to get back and work on it a little more and maybe send.

The afternoon I ended up working quite a bit and ate a moderately late dinner so that I could get to the park a.s.a.p. and really go hard on the Suzuki Boulder. Unfortunately, I guess everyone else except for Drew and I had lost some of their enthusiasm and they opted for climbing at the gym (aren't we in Colorado?) versus Suzuki. Stupid... So Drew and I spent a very frustrating few hours working things and getting weak. We both were able to send The Worm V3 which is a really awkward problem that climbs out a little prow and then makes an awkward mantle up. Cool all in all I suppose, but it got me worked really bad in my shoulders and so now I'm here in bed taking the day off so I can hopefully hit things nice and hard on my day off on Saturday! Here are a few new pics!

Routes on the Marble Boulder:


Marble Boulder without huge red lines:


Me on the bottom portion of the Tobasco routes:


Checking out the top out of The Worm:

Josh working a V1 with the over hung prow in the background being The Worm:


Here is a picture I just got from Drew showing me working the really hard reach to the crimp on the sloper V4ish problem:

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