Sick nasty Honda Accord with carbon fiber hood in the campsite parking lot. Werd.
Spent a beautiful long weekend at the New River Gorge with our very own Skilla and a few other folks. Couldn’t have asked for better weather: 60s and clear skies. Climb in the sun in the morning, then switch to the shade with your shirt off in the afternoon. Perfect.
Not much to report on the weekend, I continued the saga of flailage that has been my climbing the last few months. Came close to onsighting a 5.12a at Endless Wall but fell on the final moves of the crux when my left hand popped off a crimper (ouch).
Later that day as Skilla and I were walking along to find the girls I spotted a beautiful line. Looking up I saw 15 feet of broken corner, to a short, juggy roof, to a splitter crack ending under a bulge (think undercling to the side, reach over it, traverse back), and more splitter crack. We didn’t have trad gear with us, but it didn’t matter because the line was BOLTED! The bolts were a bit spaced, 7 or so in 90 feet, and you could cut down on the runout with trad gear. But Read more…
