Kenway, back on the wall

We hit Brooklyn Boulders today for an afternoon of climbing. Kenway, Brett and Begona started with some bouldering. I arrived a bit later and warmed up on some bouldering problems (V0, V1, V1+, V2+, V3) and then joined Begona for her belay test. She passed with flying colors (well, actually, she forgot to say 'on belay', but blamed it on the language barrier). After that I warmed up on some 5.9s and Begona tackled a couple of 5.7s and a 5.8. Brett and Kenway worked on getting Kenway lead certified (and warmed up on a 5.9) and then Kenway tackled a 5.10+ and a 5.12. Brett paced through the 5.10+, a 5.11+ and a 5.12 before finally being defeated on a crazy 5.12. I finished off trying a 5.10 (turned out it had no anchor) and then a 5.9+ with some tricky first moves).

Begona and Kenway took of and Brett and I finished up with a few more bouldering problems and finally a round of pull-ups on the hang board. Unfortunately, no slacklining today as there was a kids b-day party.

Brooklyn in the house!

Begoña, Brett and I met up with Jill and did some climbing at Brooklyn Boulders. For me and Begoña it was a bit of a short session, but everyone seemed to make some progress. Begoña progressed through a bunch of boulder problems that she'd been working on and ended up with a TR as I was leaving. I worked through a V0,V1,V1+,V2-,V3 progression as a warm up and then did a TR 5.9 that gave me a bit of trouble last week (and still a bit tonight). Then I worked on a 5.9 lead problem that I was stuck on last time. This time with a hang I was was able to finish it off and next time I'll try to send it in one go. Then, with much encouragement from Brett, I tackled a 5.10+ which was very, very overhung (mostly under the roofs) but also juggy. I had to stop multiple times to find clipping stances and I screwed up the sequence getting out from under the roof twice, but I managed to finish it and felt pretty good. Next time I'll shoot for only one hang. Brett ran up the 10+ and then hit a couple of crazy 12s on lead.

We all attempted some slack-lining at the end. Well, I should say, Begoña and I attempted to stand up and Jill and Brett walked back and forth and tried to unbalance each other. In a show of sheer talent, Brett managed to jump up onto the slackline from the ground and land (pretty) gracefully.