Sunday, October 31, 2010

Fall Weekend

Jesse taping his foot due to his new shoes not treating him right. On a side note. Jesse hikes really fast and its tough to keep up with his long stride!
Here Chuck is jugging up pitch 2. He is the only filmmaker that I have ever heard of carrying that camera (THE RED) up on walls to shoot rock climbing or any kind of climbing movie with. He must take care not to drop any of the asseseries while assembling and disassembling the camera during the shoot. Being over a hundred feet up with a very expensive camera is not really the best place, but a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do.
This is me after I finally figured out the moves to climb this beast without falling!
Here I am resting on the valley giant after getting spit out of the overhanging off width.
Jesse took these photos and this one is of the beautiful skyline and the bomber anchor in the detached block that I had him hang out on during the climb. Thanks man!

Got to play on a new route that has taken a long time between attempts. The weather has been changing fast and it has been tough to get out after school. So its been over a month since I first started trying this route in the Colorado National Monument.
I finally sent the first pitch on lead (although I TR's it clean on the first day) and was able to attempt the second pitch off width. The second pitch was really a trip figuring out. It takes a nice big cam (the valley giant which is way bigger than a number 6 block diamond cam) and a fully tipped out number 6. It overhangs a few feet and comes out a unique dihedral. Once you overcome the off width in the overhang, you can then switch gears to the off width on the vertical terrian. I took a beating on it as I learned and rehearsed the moves. I am optimistic that I will do the route on my next attempt, but as with life, who knows when that will be? I am glad that Nelson and Chuck came out to shoot some video and that Jesse has been a super good friend to want to partake in the long and boring belays while getting pegged with chunks of loose rock.
piz : )

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