Pitch 3 of the Rostrum
The Rostrum from the approach. 1300 feet of perfect crack climbing
Another goal for this summer is to climb the Nose again
This is my current "proj. O' tha week"- Just Send It 5.13bI just turned 31 (ouch!). Lateley, it's dawned on me that I'm not getting any younger and that some of my goals in life (at least athletic goals) are only going to get harder to accomplish the longer I wait to achieve them. Because of this reasoning I've been fairly focused and dedicated to really pushing myself at climbing this fall. This spring I really pushed myself on the bike working up to a 100 mile mountain bike race. I saw first hand how my hard work paid off when I easily finished the race and beat out many other, more experienced, "lifers" in the race. With that mentality, I've been really trying to bump up my climbing ability into the 5.13 range. That means projecting climbs that at first seem nearly impossible to even reach the top, let alone reach the top without falling for a clean ascent. Then as you work the moves, find suitable rests, develop certain strategies and little tricks to make the movements of the climb easier, you eventually get to the point that you can climb from bottom to top without falling on fairly desperate(for me at least) terrain. With that said, my new "proj o' tha week" is a climb at Fern Buttress called Just Send It, a 5.13b sport climb that climbs super technical and is about as powerful a climb as I've ever been on. It's real close to my trad line, Portley Gent's Route, that I completed this Fall. I one-hung Just Send it twice yesterday so now its just a matter of time before I tame the beast and on to the next line but there is something magical about the process of learning movements on hard lines that I'm getting more and more addicted to. Hopefully all of this hard work will pay off this summer when I head to Yosemite for a 3 week climbing trip. One of my goals (for a long time) has been to free climb the Rostrum, a 11c 12 pitch route in Yosemite.
3 comments:
Don't scare me with your crazy ideas...free climb? Not again! I think just climbing half dome would be fabulous and I would love to cheer you all the way up!
Free climb not solo. Most people pull on a few peices of gear here and there when they climb the Rostrum. The truly awesome can due it all free without pulling on gear for aid. I'd like to join that group and might just be lucky and dedicated enough to pull it off.
Good...but I obviously read it wrong and thought you were crazy...5.11 solo would be insane!
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