Stone Mountain - NCwoodzy | 28 December, 2006 12:02 What a beautiful granite slab! I don't know why people are so sketched out by it... I looked at pretty much the start of every climb there and while some had serious runs to the first piece of pro, it looked like moderate climbs had pretty easy terrain between gear/bolts. My goal for the day was to just explore and maybe boulder a little bit. Well that is not exactly what happened... I did do alot of hiking (6 miles?) and playing with my new gps. I did boulder around on some awesome boulders for 30 minutes. Then I also solo'ed some 5.easy (they're all the same under 5.7) water groove... just to be fair at some points (after 100ft or so) all I had to do was stand up and walk on a 20 degree incline but that only lasted 50ft or so. I know this should be thought of as stupid and I did walk along most of the cliff saying that I wouldn't even consider climbing this thing w/no rope (although I did decide that if I had a rope & gear, I would have rope solo'ed everything)... but then I just saw the best (and easy, that was key) looking water groove around and ran up it in like 20 minutes (including a nice 10 minute break on the 10/20 degree "ledge." The grand total is probably something like 4thclass slab for 100ft, 5.easy for 300ft. There was one move on there were my head told me that this crystal step on almost vertical (80ish) terrain could crumble at any moment and you don't have any hands... don't die. But that passed quickly with no problems and then the water groove had all the features you could every ask for. In reality, if this was to be climbed at all... it was to be climbed solo... you "could" simul climb it but there wasn't any bomber gear really and if one of you fell, you both would die... so I feel somewhat justified :)
Little River Canyon - Grey Wallwoodzy | 18 December, 2006 11:01
Did a couple of the warm up 11's... Then got on some 12a/b then some 11hard then some 12hard. I need to work up my power endurance.
TWall - After Exam Stress Relieverwoodzy | 15 December, 2006 22:41 I am becoming too intimate with the hike up to T-Wall :) Climbed here Thursday & Friday.
Tallulahwoodzy | 09 December, 2006 12:43 Its 28 degrees in the parking lot of the "Interpretive Center" at Tallulah Gorge... we convince the rangers we aren't idiots... and start decending. I get to the 4th class scramble and I decide that I'm waay to hot in my fleece. We get to the base of Primitive Paradox and its probably 55/60 degrees in the sun. This is why Tallulah is so awesome. Also being about an hour fifteen from ATL is nice ;) No new climbing today, just showing off the place to a few friends.
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