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| Baptiste on Sunday afternoon 5.7 |
This was the first climbing trip we have gone on in a while. I missed the Taquietz trip in lieu of a birthday Vegas trip for several bad reasons, and this is the first time I've been out in months. It was weird slipping my approach shoes on this morning. I was really concerned that I was going to be weak and embarass myself. Those concerns were unfounded, and I did so well that I can't wait to go out again the week after next.
We did the tower 2, vomitorium, sunday afternoon combo today balancing out at a 5.8 level overall.
Nick Followed and cleaned.
The tower 2 5.7 crack is nice and easy and only has about one hard move where you have to wrap your leg around the first boulder to friction up.
I climbed it nice and easy. I also did the adjacent face climb rated at a 5.10a. I was really really pleased with myself for that one. I thought my break would make me weak and flabby. It turned out that the break only made me flabby.
Then we went over to the vomitorium. The vomitorium is a 5.9 and is where I first learned how to stink bug as a young climber. The 5.9 move is right in the beginning. I didn't stumble much and successfully completed the easy and hard side of the vomitorium climbs. I also did the adjacent bouldering climb.
Baptiste had a gri gri which I thought was pretty pro.
We then scooted over to Sunday afternoon which had a bunch of lie backs.
The book calls them handcracks but they were totally liebacks. This was a good day for me. I climbed all the lieback/handcracks without feeling destroyed and defeated at the end.
Overall, I am incredibly excited about getting back into shape and having more great days like today.