The smaller boulder was kind of cool and would have a couple of crimpy face climbs on it. We quickly left it for the bigger boulder. This was the first time I'd seen this boulder and I was quite impressed. It's not quite as big as the boulder at Eric's cabin -- but it's close. Probably 10 or so decent lines on it and a few gems.
The best line on the boulder starts on an arete and climbs up this overhanging, featured prow and tops out on some bad slopers. Nic went to work on it and after awhile sent the thing and called it V8 or V9 "Significant Other":
He also added a variation that exits left onto a slab and called it "Insignificant Other". And the video:
Later that night Scott Ferris and Kris and Lynn Johnson joined us and the next day we went out to the Big Swirly Cabin Boulder. A great session as usual. Fun to see the jaw-dropped looks on Scott, Kris and Lynn's faces as this was their first time seeing this boulder. 5 new lines ended up going up to bring the total to 15 I believe. The 2 super-projects remain. Scott managed to climb 11 of them on Saturday including 2 new lines. "Squeaky Clean" is a highball, scary arete that starts on the back side of the boulder and finishes up inside the slot and "Mr. Clean" climbs the other, shorter arete on the back side. The other new lines were "Sneaky Pete" - a short crimpy problem on the backside to the left of Pendulum, "Coffee and Cocaine" - the highball slab to the left of The Sycamore that was named because Nic said it makes you jittery from the scare factor, and "Carpe Diem" - a 3rd line to go up in the slot. Kris did Dragon Fruit V7 and made it look easy.
Lynn sent 10th Plague (check out http://minnesotaskin.blogspot.com/ for her report of the weekend along w/ videos of her on The 10th Plague and The Sycamore):
Here's a video of a few of the days sends:
1) Kris does Dragon Fruit V7
2) Nic does Coffee and Cocaine V4
3) Nic trying the crux of the "Understudy" project
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