Monday, October 29, 2007

Rainbow/Donner 10/27

headed up to Donner/Rainbow after, well after a nights sleep after the concord comp.

drive was not bad, we had Brett, Pascale, Taz and myself.

I brought them to the yosemite boulder near the 1070 house, we got on all the good problems, brett got sweet n' low, I worked out some of the moves on it and made some progress. Pascale got on the rail crack and owned the thing, she was a really strong climber and did really well, considering she said she had never done anything over a v1, she cranked out the v4 rail ;) good job!!!

we then headed up to a project I found a few weeks ago. we worked out the stand start, but the sick sit start was.. how you say... haaaaaarrrrd Pascale actually had an easier time with the lower moves because she was a bit shorter then brett and myself.

after that, we headed up to donner summit to get on white lines! I made negative progress on the problem :( , brett was able to make it up to the slopey ledge and making the move out to the face holds, and Pascale was able to get some of the hard first moves worked out.

we gave up on white lines since it had been in the sun all day, we decided to head back out to rainbow and go the jawbone boulder. we got over there and did a whole slew of the awesome problems around there; the lone asthetic arete, the short bulge and a few of the slab problems. Pascale was ripping it up on the steeper stuff, mad props to her for working out a few v4's that took me a while to get ;)

brett got some awesome progress on ismael, he got up to the sloper and he got up to but did not latch the layback/crack that gets you over the lip. i did not make much progress besides working out some better footwork, i was pretty beat from the day and my muscles stopped working!

had a great trip with brett, pascale taz and myself.

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