Unrepeated trad

[Larry Day]

I'd say the quality of experience was first order.

[aaron]

yeah i know about the big cams, just giving a nod to his affinity for ow.
i've done synchronicity, fun climb.

[Crankmas]

Did Joe send Pink Sock yet?

[Guest]

Pink Sock is a sport route. Spuzo has some pics of the route on her site, looks badass.

[Yasmeen]

http://www.redriverclimbing.com/RRCGuid ... .php?id=64

Is Pink Feat a face climb until you get to that crack up high or am I missing some small seam before that? Look's frickin hard...

[Wes]

Face climb with one bolt and maybe some tri cams? I think it is much harder to start, since the ground is a couple feet lower now.

Wes

[captain static]

I would like to point out the Batman was done without cams which were not yet widely available at the time of the FA.

[Wes]

Dude, you are such a chuffer.

Nice send and all, but how long ago was it? You are like those guys that made it to the state quarter finals in football thier Sr. year, and now just sit around and drink beer and watch the tapes.

Wes

[captain static]

Well maybee I'll just have to put up some new lines this season for you young chuffers to flail on! My whole point in bringing this up in the other thread was that bouldering and sport are not necessarily good training for trad. That specific upper body strengths, especially with the push muscles and abs are required to do hard trad. You are right Wes that the FA was done in my prime. I was a senior in college not high school though and had been climbing for about 7 years, mostly at Seneca. The biggest factor that I believe was the key to doing Batman was the fact that I was still doing gymnastics at that point in my life. I loved the still rings and could press a handstand, do levers, etc.

[Wes]

And you are still spraying about it. Dude, just let go. I know it might seem hard and all, but just let it go.

Wes