Climbing with Peter.

...'8 height to the ground, so it looked worse than it was. I shouldn't have looked down, but I was trying to assess whether downclimbing was an option. Downclimbing slab sucks: if you slip (and you will), you'll finish the downclimb sliding face- and palms-down along dirty basalt. This can't be good. Peter ...

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mama says you gotta go to the baptist fashion show

...probably about a 5.8 or a hard 5.7, which I did send, and was pretty happy about. I also did a friendly old 5.7 I know well, and ran up and down a 5.6 for the downclimbing practice. Downclimbing, still hard. But it teaches you things about balance. In other and unrelated news, Les Paul has died, aged 94. And Stew is on my radio, talking about Passing Strange . So now I am breaking for lunch and ...

Tags: the white city dust abby irene falling off perfectly good rocks

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matociquala

if you don't like my peaches, baby, why you wanna shake my tree?

... that, my arms were shot , and I tried a 5.9 that's all balance and didn't even have the strength to pull myself up on the arete, though I tried a bunch. After that, I went and did some drill--feet only on the slab wall, and then climbing and downclimbing on the bunny wall. My virtue is intact. My hands, however, feel like they've been sandpapered, and my feet and calves are pleasamtly achy.

Tags: falling off perfectly good walls arom

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Weekend in Devon

... might encounter in Utah (and it was awkward), and the second, over the flatter face of the rock for a 45-50 foot vertical abseil. The first was difficult and was more like downclimbing using an abseil as a safety tether. The second was a much more straightforward abseil, with a nice gentle sloping transition to the vertical, but presented a more "interesting" anchor construction challenge for ...

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she thought she could stand up in the deep end

... up, not just one, even though it's weird and treefroggy). It was ugly as sin, and I did the last part as a total thrash, but I got it. Then I did a little bit of work no-hands and then downclimbing on the slab wall, and called it a night. Woot . I am a good girl, and also virtupus. I went climbing even though I felt like blowing it off, and I did awesome when I got there. And now I have ...

Tags: falling off perfectly good rocks

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