Carter lake is an amazing winter destination. Provided it is not windy, it can easily reach 70 degrees on a sunny day in JANUARY.
Unfortunately, this past Sunday it was windy. Although I froze my butt in shorts, it was a fun session and good to be out "rock shopping".At one point during the day, the wind drove the ice sheet on top of the lake against the shore and broke it all to pieces. For lack of anything better to do, I hiked down to see and it was pretty sweet. Like plate-mail all flexing and moving against itself in the waves.
Anyway, the usual clowns were in attendance. This is Rich right before jumping on "Buddha belly" and declaring it an es-tupid problem.
As I mentioned in a comment on the Hueco post, Flakey roof is VERY fun. Although the crux move is a bit reachy, here is diggs pulling off a quick ascent of the problem on Sunday.
Seriously, if you haven't done it, you should.
It sits uphill and to the right if you are facing skunk-rub.
I remember feeling that "Daily Chuck Dose" which climbs out from under the middle of skunk-rub was very difficult. It saw several flashes on Sunday and other red-point ascents by Fiona, Sarah, Kristen, and I believe Rich.
Unfortunately, Sarah injured her middle finger of her right hand (i think) during the send. Kristen passed along the news that it seems minor and should heal quickly. Especially because she stopped climbing immediately. GOOD DECISION SARA!
Once again, I have compiled a list of problems to do at Carter once my finger heals.Lets just hope it is still cool enough outside to do so!
Stick send everyone!
4 comments:
nooo not another injury!
bigup on the sends of chuck dose to everyone!
flakey pull roof was so hard for me when i did it... nice to that one too!
did you find any fishing lures in the rocks when you were walking around, matticus? when the water's low, they are everywhere. i always thought it was celo trying to hook rosie w/ boobytrapps, but he says no.
There was no finding of fishing lures, but I was not looking.
If I had known that, I would have been a little less eager to go down to the water.
Thank you for creeping me out.
-M@
better than finding bodies like used to happen at the rowing club i "trained" at for, like, one season... stories of girls boats getting an oar caught under the water and raising it up to reveal a dead body that had resurfaced after the spring turn-over in lake erie.
YUM YUM YUM
even more creepy than that... hagfish. look em up. or "india" or "amazon" and "disease".
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