First ascent of Lexington finger crack

Post by **busty** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 12:47 am

When I ran an errand near the Fayette Mall/Target area tonight in Lexington, I saw a couple of people climbing/bouldering on an expansion joint in the retaining wall just below Target on Reynolds Rd. The wall is right next to the sidewalk and has some sort of fake masonry block panels. I'm not sure whether this makes me really sad that we don't have a gym or happy that some people came up with a novel place to climb. A little of both I guess.

Either way, we really need a gym here.

Post by **longlegsrule** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 1:17 am

what do you guys do during the week since you don't have a gym to climb in anymore?

well....at least some of you don't...

Post by JB » Thu Mar 31, 2005 1:46 am

dan-yo, urban crack climber extrordinaire!

Post by **longlegsrule** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 2:15 am

hahaha

Post by **Steve** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 2:33 am

That stuff looks climbable, wonder who long their session lasted seeing its such a busy intersection.
Best urban handcrack in Lex is on the Samaritan parking garage. You can rig a TR off the top rail and jam until your hearts content. Pick the side that faces the back of Keenland and do it at night. Ahhh beer...ahhh college...never got back to try and lead the thing.

Post by **busty** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 4:14 am

longlegsrule wrote:what do you guys do during the week since you don't have a gym to climb in anymore?

Continually check weatherchannel.com to see if the weather will be good for weekend climbing at the gorge....or watch crap on TV like the trainwreck new season of the Bachelor.

I should have named this thread "Roadside Attraction".

Post by **J-Rock** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 1:12 pm

There is a sweet jam crack on a parking garage in Bloomington this pretty cool. Also, Indy has several bridges with technical enduro glue up routes that are 100 feet long.

Post by **lordjim_2001** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 2:30 pm

It looks like there is some decent vertical traverse type routes at one of the parking structures on UK's campus. Across from the West'ish side of the Young Library. I've always thought that the back wall of the fountain at either Triangle Park or Thoroughbred Park would be fun.

Post by **haas** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 2:37 pm

nothing beats some good buildering once in awhile, especially on a college campus between classes. It can be just as challenging and sketchy with the cement landings

Post by **J-Rock** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 5:55 pm

Yeah, Eric and I got run off of some good limestone buildering on the IU campus years ago.