Becoming friends with Little Cottonwood.
Bouldering in Little Cottonwood (LCC) is known to be pretty stout and all the holds to be little crystals. I am not a big boulderer and have never been able to pull anything in LCC, but thought I would give it another try as the Grayhghost just hooked me up with my very own bouldering pad with a hand drawn graphic he had done. Unfortunately I forgot to take a pic of the new pad, so that will have to come in another post.
The Grayghost and I headed up on Thursday to the Gate and the Riverside boulders and for the first time in my life I was able to get up something harder than a V0 in LCC. I was genuinely surprised and actually had a great time.
So I headed back up on Saturday, meeting up with #11, the Orange and a boy posse, where we climbed in Secret Garden and once again at the Riverside boulders.
Sunday I cruised up LCC again to meet up with the Orange, the same boy posse, TB and his brother and Scott (I guess I don’t have a nickname for Scott). We played around at Cabbage Patch, looked for the East Gate boulders (with no success) and finished off at the Gate.
Perhaps this rope-less type of climbing is ok after all.