Weekend Report = 3 Days of Climbing!

As I sit here at the computer on a Sunday night I feel TIRED. This is due to one HECK of a good weekend of climbing! It all started with a sweet after work session at Castlewood on Friday. The usual suspects were in attendance and things went down. Kristen and Alexa both sent 9 lives arete (their project) and kicked off the weekend in style.
Saturday dawned cold and windy, but the crew was not to be contained to the gym. Morrison South was to be the destination and it had no idea it was about to get owned.
First of all, Squirming Coil saw the quickest ascent that i have yet witnessed. Karen sent it casually on her SECOND TRY. Truly amazing. She also went on to send pretty much everything she touched. Don't you love those days!?! Several of us also busied ourselves on a problem called Double Arette. A wrestling match to say the least. Here, Kevin is throwing an interesting toe hook to stabilize for the jug toss. PROUD SEND. John's second day of pure bouldering went pretty well. He also nailed down the coil after some try hard and digging. Pretty solid for the reformed trad-man!

Another picture of the Double Arette problem. I think this was the best picture I took all day. Thanks for climbing Adam!

Lisa absolutely gave squirming coil hell. She'll send soon. Look at all that try hard!

Marcelo was on hand to provide choss beta and talk us away from the better lines to climb. Here he can be seen giving beta for the sit start to a problem that was just plain FUN from the stand.

Kristen sent the stand start quickly and easily. A very cool lip encounter / mantel ends this roof feature.

Karyn was the only climber to pull through the heinous opening sequence of the low start. Just look at the contortion it takes to get that drop knee! Unfortunately, once pulling through this beastly start, she pumped out on the lip jugs. Oh well. You can't send the ENTIRE AREA in one day!

Last, but not least, you can see Marcelo forging is own line and coming out the LEFT side of the prow. Definitely the road less traveled and much harder than the other direction. I love how this picture captures the SHEER TERROR that we all feel when spotting Marcelo through his madness.

This was ONLY SATURDAY! Imagine the shenanigans that went down on SUNDAY! Were you in attendance? If so, don't spill the beans. More postingness coming your way later in the week. In the mean time, make arrangements to climb with us on Tuesday at Castlewood!

-M@