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Nice, JB!

When are you at the coffee shop again?

I play tomorrow night... Thursday the 2nd!

That's J-Tree right? Those problems are so freakin' hard. Just getting off the ground usually takes about 3,000 tries.

What time, JB?

dipsi, 8pm...

SCIN, yeah, j-tree.... getting established is the crux... i think they call that thing v2. It's hard to keep your weight on your feet and push your chest in at the same time... FUN!

Over 3 trips, I've been on that thing almost exactly the 3,000 tries you mentioned... finally got it.

the last trip i took out there was the first time i bouldered at JTree. i could get halfway up Streetcar Named Desire, thanks to that starting crimp, but couldn't even get off of the ground on Stem Gem.

watching people cruise both of those lines was way inspiring. showed me how much work i need to do on my smearing technique and how much more i *could* trust my feet.

That rock has some nice texture out there. On my first trip to J-Tree I fell on the very first boulder problem of the day and I barely scraped the rock. I had bloody scrapes all over the place from that one little fall. That very same trip I ended up getting knocked out when I fell from a slopey topout. Got back up and sent it as soon as I regained conciousness though.

yeah, my first trip there, i got rock rash on my face on the problem in the pics... you can likely see how that happened... this time my right palm down press slipped and i have a very raw forearm because of it. fun stuff.