Early bird gets the roof
G and I snuck off campus early today, getting to BKB around 5:30 and being rewarded by a blissfully (relatively) empty gym. Warmed up slowly on vertical problems in the front (V0-V3) before heading to the new roof section in the back. We worked a few problems in the V3-V5 range: a long, juggy V3 (pink/blue) that traverses the length of the roof before heading up to top out, a V4 (orange/black) that starts on the roof with a few tricky body tension moves before crossing the lip and heading up, and a tough V5 V6 (green/red) with small pinches and big throws. Guillaume was absolutely killin' it...
We moved to a little vertical section just off the roof, where there was a good clustered collection of V4s and V5s, including a few that used a left-sided arete. Moves felt allright to me, but the endurance is still slowly coming back.
2 comments:
You forget the cool V6 we tried (but could not do) in the roof section. Start on a big piece under the roof. Right hand to a small piece, bump to a bigger piece that you pinch. Move your left foot to the big start hold. Match hands. Move your right foot to a small piece. Move your right hand just one inch further to an undercling. Then its a big throw to a large open hand pinch type thing. At this point your body is at about an 80 degrees angle. Then its a long move to the next right hand...
Fun, but too hard for now.
My bad, thought it was a V5 - I'll change the label.
You were climbing really strong, dude...
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