The weather around Olympia has been extraordinarily beautiful and dry for the past couple days. Sitting in class all I was focusing on, besides how much homework I have to do, is how dry is Leavenworth. Earlier we experimented with winter L-town bouldering and came up short handed with snow free walls, bu iced over holds. This time was, well, the exact opposite. The walls were dry and snow free except for a few. Derek, Kyle, Jeremy and I all piled into a Subie and headed over highway 2, sadly passing gold bar, on our way to the boulders. Our first stop was Forestland where we all warmed up. After messing around on One Summer Low, a nasty Domish crimp thingy, I managed to send it. Feeling good about my crimp strength I headed around the corner and began sessioning Back Door Ass Attack(V7). I fell off the starting move a couple times then derek mentioned the hip beta, basically bring it above your hands (yeah it was painful). But for the life of me I couldn't bump my left hand to the crimp. so I said screw it I'm doing this my way. I threw my heel up, reached to the first crappy left hand sloper on the bottom of the rail, shot my right hand out right to an undercling pinch in the crack, and then delicately hucked my right again to the lip, finally to the 'easy' part. The top out was a little sub par with my left heel slowly coming off but none the less still sent! Meanwhile Derek managed a send of One Summer(V5), and Jeremy came excitingly close to one summer low(V6). Also, Derek managed to get the subie stuck in the snowy parking lot and after 15 minutes of pushing we moved on.
Next stop was the Sword boulders until the road ended abruptly at Bridge Creek, so we headed back down to Mad Meadows were we ran into the Allwine Brothers and Kjerstie. Then we headed over to Pimpsqueak(V9) where I managed a flash, luckily caught on film, and was pleased to have done this scary line first go to not have to worry about the iffy landing anymore! After messing around on the hard lines we migrated over to the Pretty Boulders which was a killer hike (Little Si is going to suck, my legs already hurt...). Derek, Kyle and Jermey got to work on Pretty Women(V5) and Pretty Girl(V3). Jeremy had the send of the day jumping the last bit of Pretty Girl and sing over Kyle's head but somehow managing to cling on for the send. Also with some high steppin' he sent Pretty Women! Then after suicing out the tricky foot beta both Derek and Kyle fired off Pretty Girl. By this time we were all feeling beat so I decided to try Batman(V8) to no avail. Guess I've got to be fresh for this one. For one last punishment we headed to the Answer man boulder and tried a stupid V5 and then headed over the pass and on home.
It was an awesome weekend besides a scheduling error for a ghost birthday party at worked that ruined Saturdays Plans, but slacklining almost made up for it(10ish steps and a turn around!). I can't wait for new problems at Bishop and to start projecting the harder lines this spring in Leavenworth. I Just need some more enduro and sunshine...
(Vid coming soon-jimmy)
