Sunday, February 5, 2012

Capitol Forest: Winterized

Coming so close on Tigger!

This weekend I took a break form the city for some fresh air and some fresh food. Also, the weather happened to coincide with the weekend! Ketl form climbing team was free too so the two of us headed out to She Bear. My plan was to finish up some of the porjects and Ketl's were to get some new projcets. Well the road to the upper parking was snowed in and blocked by fallen trees so we quickly turned around and headed to the new parking lot. I've wondered for awhile how the approach is from below and it is a hair longer but way less steep! Eventually we made it up the hill.

After a quick warm up I gave Tigger a few burns and came hit the lip but blew right off. The I switched gears and put some goes into D12. The first big lock off went quickly and with some new foot beta I managed a slightly dynamic dead point to the 'tooth'! After blowing the V5 dyno finish, I quickly resussed where the jug was and sent! Finally! This was one of my longer projects and it feels real good when it all comes together and you can finally check it off. It felt only around V9, the problem boils down to a 3 foot lock off on crimps to a deadpoint to a tooth, then a moderate dyno. Three moves, pretty fun. There also now exits a static left exit from the tooth that might earn ten points, we'll see. And then there's tigger, one day it'll go, I'll try this one until I send no matter how long it takes! (I foresee some summer night sessions).