Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Pine Box

Yesterday I made an ascent of an amazing steep and tall granite arete called 'Pine Box V11/12'. It had exfoliated a little bit as it is a new problem found and climbed by my friend Justin Alarcon. The lips on two of the holds had significantly decreased which made the climb much harder and forced different beta than the original condition dictated. The boulder also goes under the full value category as the top out is committing and sequence dependent. The grade is a bit of a question mark but I had an extremely fun time climbing on it and it is double digit-something. I will add some images of the ascent soon and hope you are all out there enjoying cool conditions.
AR

2 comments:

sock hands said...

nice!

hayden said...

glad to hear things are going so well for you.

a) PICTURES
b) fuck dogwood, keep the compression up. SHADOW WARRIOR (no cheating, the valley is not limestone)

upon, phone fixation lets get in contact.