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First ascent of Lexington finger crack
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 12:47 am
by busty
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.
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 1:17 am
by longlegsrule
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...
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 1:46 am
by JB
dan-yo, urban crack climber extrordinaire!
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 2:15 am
by longlegsrule
hahaha
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 2:33 am
by Steve
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.
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 4:14 am
by busty
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".
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 1:12 pm
by J-Rock
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.
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 2:30 pm
by lordjim_2001
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.
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 2:37 pm
by haas
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
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 5:55 pm
by J-Rock
Yeah, Eric and I got run off of some good limestone buildering on the IU campus years ago.