Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Last weekend, the crew headed out to Bishop for a weekend of pebble crushing and some cold weather. With the turkey still settling from Thanksgiving the day before, Thomas, Brodie, Erik Calef, Katie, and I rolled up to the Happys for some volcanic fun. Some of the problems that went down were the Hulk and Rio's Arete. It was good intro day to Bishop bouldering. The temps dropped into the teens at night and we slept nicely in our not so dirtbag heated hotel. Day two came with a trip to the Buttermilks. We warmed up on the King Tut boulder and saw Brodie flash a V6. I also slapped my way up a V6 as well on the boulder. From there we headed to Pain Grain which I ticked with some burly beta. The session in the Milks expanded when Adam F and Kyle the J joined us for some fun times. The highlight came towards the end of the day up across the way on Checkerboard V8. Brodie and I worked it until we were thrashed and i finally sent with the last push of energy i had. Scarry shit when you get to the last move. Try it some time. Day 3 we were back to the Happys. We startes out with a nice V3 warmup and then moved on to Gleaner V6 which saw ascents by Brodie and me. We played on the Rave, the sit is super hard, and did Mr. Happy. Others that went down were Serengetti V5 and THe Big Chicken V4. With blood on our tips and warried muscles we bade Bishop a farewell and headed out for our nice 8 hour drive home.

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