Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Springing Forward and Upward

As clocks sprang forward this last Sunday I joined Ryan Brazell and Brad King for a trip to Table Rock to check out some of the boulder problems that Ryan and Brad have started to develop. If you have read Ryan's blog you have no doubt been impressed with the photos of the area and I can vouch for the high qualityof the rock. The boulders are very reminiscent of Rumbling Bald in that they are all house sized chunks of gneiss. There is certainly more to be developed but we spent the day on the three problems that have been discovered and cleaned thus far, all of which are proper hard.

The dyno project will be a reality in the near future as both Ryan and Brad came agonizingly close to sticking the throw to the right hand crimp. It will be interesting to see if Anthony can bring his "wilt the stilt" height to bear on the problem and turn it into a massive deadpoint rather than an all out dyno.

Here are some shots from the day:


Brad setting up for the big huck on the Dyno Project

Not quite there.

Brazell on the setup


Brazell touching the goods...momentarily




1 comment:

anthony said...

Even if I do send the "dyno proj", I'm sure it's only because of my height advantage...or so they say!