Thursday, August 30, 2007

Fist Fight with a Sumo Wrestler



I've been a bit obsessed with the Marble Gully this summer, and as the season comes nearer to the end my anxiety about finishing projects increases. But somehow I let Styles talk me into venturing out of the Marble to hit this splitter crack that we'd been eying for months. What a nice treat for any self abusing climber, this 2 pitch climbs a nice lieback flake then scary steep climbing on hollow flakes followed by a splitter fist crack to an anchor. Pitch 2 continues up the splitter crack for another 90' to a decomposing ledge.
Another Crags Classic "Fist Fight with a Sumo Wrestler" 5.10+.

Thursday, August 9, 2007

Marble Summer!



Styles Cruz'n on yet another Marble Classic "Summer Breeze" 11c. Route dev continues and the new goal of 3 5.13's by the summers end is looking challenging but possible. We're making good progress on #2 and great routes are being established in the process.