Spent Friday afternoon through Sunday at Jackson Falls doing a little bit of climbing, but...it was HOT!
Friday I hiked into a new bouldering area called The Roost which was less than impressive. There were two problems that I really wanted to scope out The Oriel and Screaming Eagle, both of which were too ridiculous to attempt in the heat. And I'm not strong enough to finish either one of them as things stand right now. The rest of the place was kind of junked up and none of the problems were particularly attention grabbing. Later that night Mike, Calvin, and Jordan all rolled in and we got in a bouldering session at Reefer Madness which was nice in spite of the ridiculous heat.
Saturday was another beastly hot day but I had my mind set on getting on some harder stuff regardless of the temps so I worked to make it happen. We all warmed up quickly on Earthbound Misfit 5.10a and then I quickly busted over to Energizer 5.12a. It is siiick! It is 5 bolts of pumpy overhung arete climbing. It was definitely one of the coolest climbs that I think I've been on so far at Jackson. Here are some photos.
The crux, which moves off of a jug into a slopey crimp into a hand foot match, then a bad pinch with the left and a bump into a left hand gaston. With the gaston then you fall right hand into a good pinch and clip and move on into the last pumpy and short sequence to the anchors!
Sunday was spent running laps on Group Therapy 5.10c in hopes for a little bit of endurance! I want to send some harder stuff! I'm psyched for the fall and can't wait to get out and do some more awesome climbing!
2 comments:
Are my eyes fooling me or are you not using ropes here?
Your eyes are definitely fooling you. I'm doing a lot of roped climbing now.
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