Last weekend at J-Falls

Well on Saturday I drove in to Jackson and met up with my friends Will and Chris, and their friend Carmen for some climbing. We headed out around 1 p.m. and quickly went down to Lovely Tower and I led up and red pointed Lovely Arete .11a again. On the way down, I set the draws up on a cool .12a I had been wanting to lead for quite a while now, Hidden Treasure and gave it a go after a good rest. It went quite well too. I made it through the lower bouldery section fine and all and got in a good rest before the third bolt clip. After the traverse across on tiny crimps I clipped the third bolt and then nailed the dead-point crimp (which is the crux) and in the process of getting my right foot up I took a fall. I fell once more after that in the same spot but was quickly able to finish it the next time. Pretty psyched and I think that with a little more strength it should go sometime in the winter or possibly in the spring. We'll see. After that we went over to Spleef Peak and I was able to red point two .10a's that I'd been meaning to get for a while, Rattler and The Garden Route. I also gave a really cool boulder problem, THC a go but couldn't finish it up.

Sunday we woke up and went over the Mr. Jimmy and dallied around for a while and I didn't really have anything there that I was too psyched to get on. After that though everyone decided to go to the whole other side of the canyon to The Ranch area and do some stuff over there. When we got there I was able to onsight a pretty cool .10b called Southern Inquisition that's super bouldery and kinda scary through the top section. After that I rappeled in and set up TR on a .12a called Cowboys and Crossdressers. I worked that for a bit and figured out most of the moves. Finally, we headed back and I threw down sloppily on Cranial Implosion .12a and fell once, and didn't try again since it was getting dark so quickly.

That's pretty much it. This weekend is looking to be pretty cool too though. Friday, I'm probably gonna head to Nashville to climb in the ABS competition and hang out with Will and Chris there that night and then try and head back up for Jackson on Sunday. Should be great!