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well, brett, scott, taz and i headed up to bear valley for the http://www.adventuresportsfestival.com/ bouldering competition at hells kitchen.
we headed up saturday in the later morning, the comp didn't start till 4, so we figured we would take our time. but just as we got almost arnold, the road was blocked. there were apparently 4 roadside fires that blocked the road. we almost turned around because they said it would be 4-5 hours until they opened the road again. it still was about 3 hours. needless to say we did not get to the comp untill around 7.
right off the road was a boulder that seemed to house some potential. i checked it out and there was a cool sloper problem on the left, and a project up the middle of the face. the sloper problem was pretty cool 'g-ma', my tips got thrashed up on the coarse granite up there, its really fucking gritty.
there was a really cool project that started low, went up to a decent crescent, then went up to a pretty henius gaston, and then big reach out to a sidepull, where it is really hard to get your feet set up and hard to crank just on the gaston with your left arm. it didn't go down while we were there, but it will eventually.
we stayed the night and next morning walked around, but needless to say did not find a whole huge amount of potential there for really good bouldering. it was really slopey, gritty with minimal features. but i'm sure there is a few gems out there and probaly a decent little colony of sickness.
