Yos 11/17-18

This weekend Brett and I headed to the valley.

First stop was Camp4, we saw a huge crowd out this weekend, definatley more the normal. So we metup with Scott, Chris, Morgan, CUZ, Dan, Flea, and god many others, my memory is bad...

So we started out in Camp4 at the wine boulders. we warmed up on some easy stuff then did Kor Problem. after that i got on font problem unsuccessfully again. then we headed to get on 'sex factor X', witch is a pretty cool problem, Scott and Ben both got the problem, witch has a wicked hard first move. then we headed up to honor among theives. I headed to the boulder just below that has a few good problems on it, and god the hard start to the rail using some body tension move. i walked back up to honor and worked out most of the moves on the problem.

after that we decided to do a night session over at the crystals and checkout a new problem called 'diesel power'. it is a sweet tall line that comes out of the moat up the arete to the top of the boulder. it will definatley be seasonal problem, but is awesome none the less. no one really got this, so we headed to work on the team projects on the slab up the backside.

now i origonally planned this line to follow just the slab up a very proud slab line, but the first time it went, we bailed out early to a jug, but this time Brett wanted to do the origonal line we imagined. Flea did one of the variations without using the jug that does go up to the top and then Brett repeated it, AWESOME JOB GUYS!

we decided to call it a night and headed back to camp4 to drink, eat and sleep :)

sunday, brett was pretty beat, so I wanted to get on font problem again. i got up on the thing and almost got the mantle of it, but after a few tries i was too tired to give it any more goes, so we decided to head on. we stopped by blue suede shoes to give it a few goes, and I got crux nailed down pat the first few tries. so after that I got up to the good edges a little further up, and i was on the last few edges and decided to scrap up to the top, but i FELL!! heh scrapped down and had a decent fall but all was well :) brett did end up getting the problem, but everytime i got up there i got too scared, so i'll definatley send it next time, espically with better conditions.

we then headed out to battle of the bulge and titanic, and I got on both of them. both problems were pretty intense on the fingers, so I just worked out some moves and headed on.

we decided to head over to happy isles and check out the new problems and scope around for other newness.

we found some boulders with some decent lines on it, the rock around there does not get climed at all, so some of the stuff was really chossy and dirty, but there definatley is potential around that area. the only drawback is there is a slight walk-in to the boulders (but not really that bad).

we saw a few people getting on 'motorcade' while we were there, but we just walked around, still tired and sore fingertips.

we headed home and saw a few crews stopping by good ole' Robertitos (plug, haha). this place rocks, authentic greasy mexican food at authentic prices ;)

peace out, till next time;

'knowledge is power, ignorance is bliss...'
-bler