Seventy Degrees In December

Post by **rjackson** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 10:09 am

Wow! If you didn't go climb because you thought it was going to be all wet, then you missed out on a rare day indeed.

Spent the day at Fortress where we did all the Calypso's and Finished on Bedtime For Bonzo. There was a little dew on the lichens first thing, but the rock itself was drying and climbable and became very navigable as the day progressed. The end of the day view from atop Bedtime was simply superb with the Red running, blue skies, t-shirts and bare feet.

We chose well. Did anybody else?

Post by **Meadows** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 10:13 am

I went out - I had almost surrendered to driving to Cincy to climb, but the day turned out fabulous. We had some wet holds and wasps, but it was a great day.

Post by **rjackson** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 10:16 am

We had quite a few flying things about also, but they left us alone. The approach trail was probably the wettest thing we had to contend with.

Meadows - Where did you end up?

Post by **dbarless** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 10:31 am

Roadside was dry @ the 10 wall, scissors and Ro were dry too, unfortunately up yonder and chris snyder were beyond hope....a fabulous december day in the red though for sure!
meadows-how'd that bagel treat the puppy??

Post by **Steve** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 10:39 am

I got to climb...to the top of a riser at the Beshear/Mongiardo inauguration. Did I choose wisely?

Looks like I did choose wisely! And if anyone else missed out we'll have another opportunity to climb in the warm December temps.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6171053.stm

Post by **Meadows** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 10:50 am

dbarless, She was fed well yesterday, that's for certain.

Fingers crossed for sunny, dry weather ...

Post by **ashtray** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 10:58 am

Post by **heavyc** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 11:10 am

We went to the Lode, the warmup 11's were a bit soupy, but climbable the Buckeye Butress was a little better and by the end of the day although we didn't get on them it looked as though 8-ball and Snooker would have been climable also, the Madness cave and the undertow were still slimy as hell at dusk
I was interested to see if anyone found much better conditions at another cliff to find out if there truly is a driest cliff at the Red but from what I read above it doesn't look like there was much of a difference

Post by **anticlmber** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 11:43 am

why do holds break again??

Post by **dmw** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 11:46 am

climbing on wet sandstone.

Steve, I got to watch it from the Legislative reception room balcony. I could have spit on Ernie's head from my stance! It was pretty radical.