What rhymes with lingus?
We were spurred to new heights of stupid humor and awesome climbing tonight by: 1) Guillaume finally getting his minivan to the shop (to replace shredded tires; I wonder how that happened?) and borrowing a brand-new Jaguar as a loaner, and 2) getting news that our favorite Brasilian will leave us soon to return to her homeland. Boo-hoo!
By the magic of even numbers we all got a good amount of climbing in. I went with all new climbs; 
9- (dark blue), 9+ (teal), 10 (brown), 11 (orange), 11 (dark blue) and 12 (green), without finishing the last two. Brett went 9-, 10 (orange), 11 (yellow; an Obe special, 35 ft of burly bouldering that Brett made look easy), 11 (orange) after which I lost track. I saw G and Kenway working the purple 12 under the arch (those first few clips were sketchy looking!), and I heard that Joana and Chloe worked their 11 (black) project, and stemmed their way up a 10b in the corner. At the end of the night, Joana mock led a nice 9-. Now that she has a deadline, she is determined to get her lead card, although I don't know what good it will do her in Brasil.
I leave it to the comments for people to discuss octopussy, breathing technique, New Yorker jokes, urinal splash potential and glory holes ...
5 comments:
Nice t-shirt.
KL and I did 10- (green I think -- right of the arch), 12 purple (under the arch then go left), Obe's yellow nightmare 11 in the front.
KL also did the long 9- blue that goes from one side of the arch to the other.
I worked the 12 lime green under the arch (close to the orange 11) but couldn't pass the roof. BL also got on it and made a nice static move under the roof that I had done dynamically.
So Chloe, did you google glory holes?
Oh no not yet, I'm waiting to use a public computer, don't want nasty pop-ups on my baby!
The part of the lime green 12 I tried is awesome; crimps, two-finger pockets, deadpoints and a giant move to the roof!
Then its a move to a bad pinch, and a big throw to a deep two finger pocket, followed by a gig throw around the roof!
Whew! Rough climbing day for me, but it seemed like everyone else was crankin' hard. Guess I should pony up and get back on the lifting regimen.
Nice post, Brian, you are quite the cunning linguist...
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