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Roadtrip Week 20 & 21: HorsePens40, Alabama

I list this portion of my trip as a 2 week stop, but unfortunately I was only able to climb in HorsePens40, Alabama for 2.5 days as the rest of the time it pissed down rain.  Blah.  The rain was seriously such a bummer as HorsePens40 was hands down the most unique climbing destination I had yet to visit on this trip.  The property was owned by a southern gun-toting family, the boulder field was accentuated by surrounding barns and sloping holds were in over abundance.  Plus due to the sandstone slopers, it was not rare to see climbers with perfectly circular bleeding finger tips.  Unique!

I have only a small handful of photos from my days there, none of which do HP40 justice.

Me “attempting” to send the hardest v2 ever. The name of the climb is Sandbox.  Seriously… has anyone ever sent this climb? =)


A fellow climber on classic line Bum Boy.

Some friends working Mulletino.

John on High Life.

 

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  • I refuse to even acknowledge that Sandbox even exists :)
  • Very smart. I have yet to see anyone send it and I definitely can not. =)
  • I used to try it once every trip because it is near the warmups, but now I know better. I have seen video of it being done by a friend of mine but I think he used some sort of CGI effect...
  • Ha ha. It is seriously ridiculous. My favorite moment is when I saw this strong climber come around the corner and asked someone sitting on top of the rock, "Oh my! Did you SEND that?!" But alas, the guy had climbed up the other side to check out the top of the problem. Ha!
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