Saturday at Jackson

Well, I ended up getting just a little later start of Friday than I had hoped but it was still a great day. A friend from school, Sean, that hadn't climbed before ended up heading out with me too. We made it to Jackson close to 5 and immediately went down the rope to get after some bouldering. Warmed up on a boulder I hadn't ever hit and tried a few little interesting problems. Nothing too difficult though. Check out a few of the problems I wanted to get some beta on by Yosemite slab but they were all wet, so we moved on over to Arete Syndrome. I ended up getting darn close and figured out some good beta. By the end I was consistently falling right at the last move. After that we called it quits and went up to set camp.

Saturday brought a nice nights sleep and a fair amount of soreness unfortunately. We started the day warming up on Earthbound Misfits 5.10a, a super-classic at the falls. Sean killed it, only falling twice. It was pretty awesome. Then we went over to this little 5.11b called Hue-Cool (Hue is pronounced like the word Way), and I was able to get the flash of that one. It was pretty freaking awesome too. Basically, it is just a 2 bolt boulder problem. It starts with some hard moves to a big throw, then a small traverse on a ledge. From the ledge you gain a large hueco and move up to another nice pocket and clip. From there the holds get worse and the crux is really finding a decent enough stance to clip the bolts from. I found one but it was sucky, and I'm sure quite ugly.

After this we decided to go back and do a little bouldering, and I was psyched to try Arete Syndrome again. First go I almost nailed it! It'll definitely go next time! We then moved on a did some more bouldering by Yosemite Slab since that stuff was now dry. I tried the supposed V7, but couldn't decide whether I was starting correctly since the problem didn't feel any harder than the V3 that is just to the left of it. I ended up repeating that V3 Cold Fusion again. After that we ran down to the Hidden Peaks area and Chris and Sean got on Cheerio Bowl and I flailed on some peoples Top Rope on Detox Mountain .12a quickly. I think I had like 6 falls. Pretty disappointing. I think it would be a little better if i wasn't so wiped. We ended up the day doing some of the easy stuff on Reefer Madness boulders then.

I've got a video coming soon!