falling off walls

[hawkwing_lb]

falling off walls 004,
originally uploaded by hawkwing_lb.

Today, I climbed five routes, two 6Bs, a 6As, and two 6A+s. Also, halfway up a 6C, some improvement on last time - but since I didn't get more than halfway, I suppose it doesn't really count.

This was my last route, a red, reachy 6A+. You don't want to know how long it took me to get up around that corner: I had so little heave left in my forearms, and the move up above is practically a chin-up with smearing.

(It was suggested today I might like to climb in Czech in the summer. Apparently with Ryanair it's cheaper to get there than it is to get to Cork.)

Comments

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

You are mighty.

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Just a little bit. :P

(Fortunately, Martin is the best climbing partner ever, and made sure I ate before I tried to go home.)

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

You're going to inspire me to try the scary roof at my gym. I don't need this kind of inspiration.

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

The guy on the roof in the flickr streem? Not me. Nor Martin. I mean, I've been up there, and even got my hand on the next hold up for the black route, but after the sicknesses, it'll be the end of the month before I have the kind of endurance to try lead it again. But that guy in the picture, he's leading a bleeding 6C+ on the freaking roof.

(I want to be able to do that. :P )

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Stream, even. I can too spell, just not on Sunday evenings.

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

*g*

Well, somebody has to do it...

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

I guess somebody does. :P

[buymeaclue.livejournal.com]

You look very chill for such a precarious position!

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Hardly precarious, when that's me stopping to grin and pose!

(Compared to the 6C I was trying - and failing - to scrabble up earlier in the session, that's a nice little ladder. A little reachy ladder, of course, but at least the holds are big enough for more than three fingertips at a time. It still took entirely too much resting to get to the top, though. :P)