Climbnskate: December 2014

Spring in Leavy

Leavenworth Spring 2014 from Ben Herrington on Vimeo.

Nate on Geronimo v8

Obe Wan v9

Spring was short lived but fun. I had a really fun trip with Nate and Alex. I wanted to get into outdoor shape by trying to flash some lines. We went to the Star Wars boulder where I managed a flash of Emperor's Lightning v7. Feeling good, I tried Obe Wan v9. Thirty try's later I finally stuck the first move and put it together. Man is it just me or is that thing hard for the grade? Then I tried Yoda v9. Bad foot choices cost me the flash. I bared down second try and finished it off. Obe Wan felt way harder. Then we headed down the road to Geronimo v8. On the flash go I slapped the lip in the wrong place and fell. I cruised it right after with the right beta. All in all I suck at flashing.

FA of Mr. Yuk v12

I was feeling a little aimless having finished off a lot of the lines I really wanted to do. I started to search a lot for new projects to get psyched on and returned to ones I had found in the past that I had deemed to hard. I was walking down from the 420 boulders when I remembered a sweet line of barely there holds with a cool starting rail. I went over there to check it out and it was even cooler then I remembered. I got to work cleaning and figuring out the beta. At first, I thought it wouldn't be to hard maybe v10/11. I was getting really close on that first day. I tried to find better beta for the top when I broke a giant foothold and slammed my chest against the wall. The top became a bit harder especially from the beginning. I came back a week later, but it was too hot and I had to wait until the sun set to try it. The holds are so small and barely there. I got really close a couple times then I split my finger on the crux left hand crimp. I tried for a while with tape but I wasn't getting anywhere with such small holds. I ripped the tape off and gave it the classic last go. When I stuck the crux move to the small crimp I thought, don't screw this up. Mr. Yuk v12 was born and my finger was thrashed. It was really cool finding this line not knowing if it would go and then coming full circle and climbing it. That is the feeling that makes developing so fun, the imagination, the unknown.

Nate on Emperor's Lightning v7

Alex on Darth Maul, v5 in my book

Yoda v9

Should have flashed but I will settle for second go

I found and cleaned the Rager proj it was hiding in plan site

Really cool holds on really good rock

I spent a day at Middle Fork at the Booka Boulders. This line Man About Town v8/9
and The Gong Show v9 are the standout lines of the area. I tried to add a funky
stemming low start to this problem but I couldn't make one of the moves.