Sunday, January 30, 2011

Eastern



This weekend we went on a mini trip to Cheney Washington, home of the National Champion Eagles. The plan was to go to minnehaha but Morgan and then Kevin wanted to hit up Leavenworth so we detoured and landed in Leavenworth around noon. The road was dry but there were some nice snow banks. First stop was Barney's Rubble and that whole boulder was dry. To get there, we leapped frog/assembly lined crass pads and walked on them to maneuver the waist deep snow. Next was the cotton pony pointer V10 but it took 10 minutes to access the boulder which is 20 feet from the road. And after our I slipped of the jug once again.
Next up was the hot tub and the NC3 Eastern Comp.
The problems were a little reachy and the 4 hardest problems saw son ascents. For finals, it came down to who flashed what seeing as all of open only did 8 different problems! The finals route was sweet which was pinchy. steep, and slopey. First burn i screwed up hugely. Second burn I pulled through the crux to the last hold, crimped it and finger gave out on way to top out! All in all an OK comp, most routes needed bump holds and CHALKED up slopers! but other than that rad movement.
Up next might be gold bar than UW. My finger is currently angry at me so we'll see by the weekend. The UW comp is going to be the comp of the season with all the big guns, minus UW's(they're setting), should be present! Oh yeah, go team OLY!
Session 1, the rest of the pics are blurry, my camera hates action...

3 comments:

dom said...

You forgot to mention that you WON

Spray Away!

NM said...

Jimmy you forget to mention you WON!? smh

jimmy said...

Nah, Leavenworth needs more press. I'd like to see some of the harder projects go down! Also, gold could use some more attention because soon enough only a handful of climbs will be moss-less. Anyway, yeah Nick, it was close! I moved off of a hold that Brian just missed. UW is gonna be stacked!