Lisa, Eric, Zan and Nicholi and I all crammed into the tiny Camry to go bouldering on Saturday with two pads doing flips on the roof(yes, we stopped and all of us grabbed a strap and held the pads down for 1/2 hour) Once we got there, the threat of rain was postponed so we hopped on the V9. We were warmed up because we did a comp right before, so who needs to warm up! right? We all left the comp at the end of climbing so I'm pretty sure I tied for second and Lisa won. On a side note, some parent was talking about the WRG Team! (we now kick ass!, or at least some! ;)
The Bridge of the Gods is a cool bouldering area on the Washington side of the Columbia River. The rock is like sharp Smith Rock tuff in a basalt lava field. (No pics cause Lisa left the camera in the van) After trying the V9 we moved over to an awesome V7 that goes up a left leaning arete. I got half way up and couldn't move my left foot higher and fell. Eric made an impressive flash of this climb. he was pulling strong outside, just not in the gym. Good job Eric! Then Zan showed us this scary V4 and Eric went for the committing dyno a couple times and got within an inch of the victory jug. Taking some nice ten foot falls (his feet were at the ten foot mark). Zan and I found a Lowball and it was very fun. A pillar fell over long ago and made this nice three mover compression problem. After playing on this for a bit the unavoidable rain started so we crammed back into the car and strapped the pads correctly so no numb hands and headed back to Portland. I definitely want to come back here and with some brushes and the oly crew. do some explorin and boulderin'....
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That sounds like a lot of fun Jimmy, nice job in the comp as usual and any time you want to get back out there I'm totally down to drive, take pics, and explore.
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