Break in the Weather

It has been a really warm month, but the weather finally took a good turn this weekend and dropped to 62 and windy for the high, I wish it never got any warmer than that here. I managed to use to good temps to send a new project at the Choss Roof, and named it Hydra (Multiple headed sea serpent monster from greek mythology). It starts in the middle of the roof on a giant pocketed rail and then traverses big jugs into the ending of the spider pocket project and out C.R. It is about 40-45 feet of roof, Will post a video whenever I get back out there. For now here's a video of a sweet problem starting on the left side of the roof in a big undercling rail.

Went hiking down to the Havasupai Reservation last week, definitely is the coolest place i've ever been. There were tons huge sandstone blocks all over the trail down there, might go back when its cold.

More from The Hinterlands

I finished one of my projects at choss roof this past week, and named it The River of Acheron V12. The name comes from ancient greek mythology and is one of the 5 rivers of the underworld that ferry souls across to the afterlife. Acheron is refferred to as the river of misery and also the border to hell. It traverses about 20 moves through the belly of the roof and then links into the third move of "choss roof". The sit start from the far right is still a project...

Went to Cherry Canyon this morning with Pat, by 9 a.m it was already warm, and everything felt greasy. I'm not going back there until it's cold.Photo:Pat Fitts

Battle of the Blobs

The Battle of the Blobs project finally met its end today. Last November ,the day before Woody Mt. rd closed for the winter,I got shut down repeatedly on the last ten feet of the traverse and had to wait all winter to go back. Now with the road open again it was time to return for revenge, but when we got to the roof, sections of the blobs were soaking wet. After a few days they dried and I finally got around to cleaning the dirty sections yesterday then managed to punt off the ending again several times, but came back in the morning and sent first try. There are several cruxes but the most definitive comes in the middle with a long reach to a shallow dish and a cross under to a small pocket, fortunately there is a huge heel toe cam down in the roof or else that section would be heinous. Video quality is bad Photo: Pat Fitts

Waiting for the Blobs to dry turned out to be a good opportunity to check out the other projects there. There is an awesome section of small crimp rails and pinches that sit starts in the back right corner of the roof. I managed to do all of the moves except one really difficult reach to a powerful gaston. Linking through would add about forty feet of bouldery roof climbing into a dyno and finish out choss roof.