Thursday, April 9, 2009

More plastic preparation

Quick trip to TRC with Kenway. The lead routes in the gym are a little sparse due to the recent comp, but the bouldering problems from the showdown are still up. I showed Kenway a lot of the stuff that Guillaume and I tried at the comp. I managed to finish the yellow problem that nearly killed me, got another yellow set by Obe (with a high finish), and made good progress on Miss Pssst's yellow. Kenway discovered that he either needs more hip flexibility or his jeans are too tight. We went after a few of the new lead routes next, starting with an 10 (orange) up front, and a 10 (neon green) up the side of the arch. Followed that up with more bouldering, working on a blue and yellow where Kenway figured out a nice heel hook. Finished by leading a new 11 (purple). First couple of clips were a bit sketchy cause of the potential to fall onto a giant pyramid (painting it blood red was just evil). Nice climbing after that.

1 comment:

g said...

Those two yellow problems from the comp are really good. Both are quite long and require thinking about body position quite a bit.

That looked like a great session. I am looking forward to trying the 11 with the pyramid of death!