Fallapalooza

Good solid Sunday afternoon of climbing at New Rochelle with Eric and Guillaume. Followed a nice steady progress of routes: 9, 9+, 10, 10, 11, 12, 12. Eric kept up well, climbing one of the 10s with us until peeling off to work on a few other 10s - he's at the point where he can work on all the moves individually, linking 'em up will be coming soon.

Guillaume was a monster as usual, both he and I and the venerable Miss Psst took a number of big falls from the first 12, which involved a veeerry tenuous clipping stance from a big ugly green sloper, far above the last bolt. I decided, after watching both G and M trying to unravel the dicey position, that I would climb past and clip from a theoretically better sidepull above but could not for the life of me pull past the awkward sloper. M really fought through the overhanging headwall above, though.

I feel the strength slowly comin' back, though, and am looking into a more structured climbing plan for the new year, most likely built around a schedule of bouldering and lead climbing with some contact training squeezed in.