We started the day by meeting up with Vince from Madison at the Camp B area who was psyched to show us around. We all warmed up on and near the Picasso wall which provided some fun introductions to the area.
Picasso Right:
Very quickly, however, we set sights on Sandstone Violence - a superb looking V8 in the area. To our knowledge, it has seen just 2 ascents so far:
The line starts standing on an obvious jug, then goes straight up into two really bad pinch crimps. Work your foot up, and go to a higher left hand crimp, switch feet, and go out right to a bad, side pull crimp and then a jump for the break. I tried it quite a few times but was never able to get past the 2 pinches but Nic quickly worked the bottom moves and after a few tries managed to grab the 3rd ascent! Video of the send (and more) is coming soon.. I definitely would like to get back out there and work on it more myself too -- wish it wasn't so far away.
After Sandstone Violence, we went over to the other side of the Backbone and to check out the Hangman/Excalibur area.. Hangman is a traverse on slopers culminating in a dyno to the top. Very fun moves.
And finally, we headed over to the Godfather boulder. The Godfather is quite a tall, proud looking line that goes at about V4/V5. The pockets were pretty painful to pull on, but that was probably because it was toward the end of the day. We both managed to get this one on our first tries:
Another cool line in the area is the jump start problem around the corner to the left -- footage of this coming as well..
All in all, a fun day of bouldering. It's a very scenic area with pretty fun problems although it's too bad you're always slightly afraid the holds you're pulling on might break.
2 comments:
Can't wait to check out the video. If you are ever itching to come back down let me know and we can meet up.
Yeah, what Narc said. I am always up to hit the Dodge too if work allows. Thanks for posting up the video.
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