We had 44 routes to set from 5.5 to 5.11 so it was over 3 days of hanging from my harness developing cuts and abrasions on my legs and trying to haul myself up ropes with a gri-gri and climbing through 30 feet of scaffolding behind the wall when setting the ropes. Pulled up on so many holds that I completely trashed a brand new pair of pretty decent work gloves.
I think we're finally done now -- just to have to go back tomorrow morning for the final check-off and help with some clean-up. I lost my phone there and am hoping to find it tomorrow. Should hopefully be climbing in Rocktown by tomorrow afternoon.
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That looks exhausting! Still got energy left to climb?
I think it is safe to say that 1200 lbs of new holds is a routesetters dream come true until you have to put them all up onto a wall in some sort of coordinated fashion.
Also -- once you realize you'll climb none of these routes other than about 2 moves at a time while setting them, it loses the mystique pretty quickly.
no doubt...hopefully you were at least getting paid
definitely.
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