Climbing: Weekend of July 30th
This past weekend I jammed my schedule with climbing as I felt like I had a little steam to burn off and because I wanted to focus on some new local projects. Saturday morn I headed down to Division in American Fork with Shaft, Severhead, Ms. Pear and Amy H.
Amy H. warming up on Black Hole.
Litmus Test (a classic route) got a run from everyone in our crew. Ms. Pear had redpointed it last week and on this day Shaft and Severhead got the flash and I snagged the redpoint. Pictured is Severhead pulling the crux.
Shaft is usually belaying me as I completely trust him with the dynamic belay; however,this also means I get very few pics of him climbing. Here he is on Remote Control.
I am mentally still fighting the broken ankle and as a result take numerous practice falls each day I go out climbing. Shaft got this picture of me taking a practice fall on Isotoner Moaner.
The CragBaby sleeping on Amy H’s lap.
Ms. Pear hanging the draws on Isotoner Moaner (a fantastic climb).
Severhead taking a smoke break after his flash. Ha ha…
Later that evening I had plans to run a trad line with Hardcore Jared. We decided on Pentapitch with the Sasquatch variation.
Pentapitch is a popular multi-pitch line in Little Cottonwood canyon that consists of 5 pitches of granite crack climbs.
Ms. Pear and I headed to The Pile on Sunday in order to hop on Pile Surgery, one of my new favorite climbs that I hadn’t even attempted until this Sunday. Ms. Pear showed me a great trick of pulling the rope (upon completion of the climb) after walking all the way past the furthest right 10c. By doing this the rope doesn’t fall in the river. Ms. Pear… she is a smart one!
Me and Ms. Pear at the end of the climbing weekend.