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Hopefully, I’ll post up about recent climbing, but for now here’s a classy video.  This pretty much sums it up.  “I guess if you climb enough off-widths, one of these days, you’re gonna get your knee stuck and shit your pants.”

I went to the Cataract Boulders yesterday and wanted to climb this boulder:

Well, I got there and it looked a little different… it was under 3 feet of water.  The reservoir has slowly been rising for the last few weeks, but I didn’t expect it to reach the boulder.  It’d be pretty fun on a hot day, though, shallow water bouldering.  Here’s what it looked like yesterday, from a slightly different angle:

Anyway, the idea was to warm-up for a project that I’d tried a few weeks ago, so I had to find something else.  I decided to try a arete traverse that I scoped figuring it’d be an ok easy problem.  After about a half hour figuring out the beta, I realized it wasn’t going to be a V0 warm-up.  It ended up being a great V4-ish problem that I called Echoes.  It climbs just like a Little Cottonwood arete, slopey lip traverse, crappy feet, and really technical.  My favorite problem at the Cataracts so far.  I even got some decent video of it.  Hope you enjoy it.

Tomorrow, I’m heading to SD to visit family, boulder in the Black Hill, and maybe even get some golf in.  I’m super psyched for the Black Hills.  It’s a pretty nostalgic place for me since that’s where we used to always go on vacation when I was young.  I’ve gotten in a few days of roped climbing, but I haven’t really touched any of the good bouldering, so we’ll see how it goes.  I should have some vids when I get back, so stay tuned for more.

-EC

I just got back from Spire, my first time climbing since I hurt my knee.  I felt pretty good.  I didn’t really try anything too hard, but I felt good on the easier stuff I tried.  I decided to start climbing a few days early because this weekend’s weather is looking really good and we’ve got a new area to develop (should be a lot more on this in the future…).

Anyways, here’s the last of my vids from Cody.  It includes the Tuk & Meat Hook on the super classic Antelope Boulder, Meet My Bruncle, and the Pulaski.  The Pulaski was a memorable problem for me because it was my first V6 and it was the problem that I tore my meniscus on (I tore it trying the sit start with a heel hook).  I’ve done a few problems “rated” V6 (Pocket Rocket at Joe’s for example), but this was the first one that actually felt harder than anything else I’ve done.  I think it’s low end V6, but I’ll take it.

Enjoy

-EC