The first is a small note from the ABS comp at the Edgeworks in Tacoma. It was another cool comp with both my sister, Lisa, and I placing first in our age divisions. Shout out to Drew taking 2nd in Masters. No video because the comp was in the dark.
Second update is Rattlesnake Lake's cool boulders. Micah has been talking about this place for awhile, and I've been meaning to get out there. Last weekend our schedules aligned and we headed out to these 'sub-par' boulders. OK, the boulders are somewhat chossy in places, and I blew off a jug on The Unnatural Traverse, but all the ledges are solid and I had a blast. Be careful near the boulder located on the Lake. The wind god is very demanding and requested the presence of my down jacket. After this encounter my want to check out the Natural boulder increased, so we trecked farther down the shore and into the secluded forest. The first obvious line was the Unnatural Traverse following a lip of this supersteep wall to a juggy top out. I started scrubbing the infinte amount of moss off of the top out, Micah tackled the finish and Dom took care of the start. I manage to send this beast first go, and went around the corner, and scrubbed off The Little Room and Blood Diamond, and managed the FA's ofthese little gems. Then I cleaned off the lip to the right of Blood Diamond and Spotted an undercling left of the start of The Little Room, and decided to link them and the rest is in the video. Hope to come back soon and send Naturalista...
Last but certaintly not least is the annual South Sound Pull Down hosted by the Warehouse Rock Gym in Olympia. Me and five other coworkers began setting foir three days, first in the back then everywhere on friday and managed to put up 54 quality problems for the masses. We had a really good showing of local climbers as well as some from Edgeworks and Stone Gardens. The video features some of the hard problems going down and also some of the more popular and accesable. Thanks to Alpine experience for providing tons of great prizes, and everyone for showingup and competeing. Hope you guys had a blast, enjoy the vid and see you again next year...-jimmy
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