Lucas and I knew we could escape the valley's awesome weather by heading West, so we did. Come to think of it, when we get a drill on loan, no matter what the weather, we'll be out at the Village. Thanks for the drill Adam! We went straight to this monster chunk of rock; one of the tallest and widest in the Village. We scrambled up to the ledge that bisects the rock horizontally and installed two sets of anchors. I bolted a really cool facey slab full of rails and crystals: 'Schwabby' 3 pieces of gear off the ground to 12 bolts that finishes on a bolted anchor ~45 meters. Lucas bolted a super featured crystally face to the right (S) using 9 bolts that finishes on a bolted anchor: 'Up and Adam' ~45 meters. Then we moved to the top of the formation, installed a bolt anchor, and worked on linking up our lower pitches with an upper one. Project. We went home because 31 bolts later were ran out.
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| Lucas installing anchors and deciding whether he likes fresh or compressed air better. |
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| Dust is bad mmmmmkay? |
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| Route development is fun no matter what the weather is doing! |
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| 'Up and Adam' goes up the obvious right slab with the bolts proximal to the right arete to keep things exciting. 'Schwabby' goes up the obvious left slab with the bolts an arms width from the arete. The first 20ft of these routes is not in the photo. |
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| Lucas working on the second pitch project. |
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| It might not look fine to you but I promise its worse in the valley! |
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| Lucas working on 'Up and Adam' |
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| LOOK AT THOSE CRYSTALS! |
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