I will post each climb attempted or completed by Kate or myself throughout the season and will bump the post up by changing the date periodically. This section of the blog will become our "tick" list for the season and will hopefully document a progression in our climbing. I will continue to make individual trips that standout beyond just an attempted climb.
7/22/07 Middle Settlement Lake, backpacked in for weekend with climbing gear. Tried previously attempted route without any more success.
7/17/07 Moss Island, lead climbed Chunky Chimbly 5.4, Echo Cliffs, climbed cracks on summit cliff.
7/16/07 Moss Island, worked on Snow White, climbed Cool Headed
7/15/07 Moss Island, worked on Snow White
7/14/07 Moss Island, Kate's first lead climb, Tower Ramp 5.1
7/8/07 Moss Island, worked on Snow White 5.8
7/7/07 King Phillips Spring Wall, lead climb 5.4
7/5/07 King Phillips Spring Wall, top roped steepest part of wall overlooking Northway.
7/4/07 Hiked Monument Falls Slide
7/3/07 Recon Creature Wall, Keene Valley, King Phillips Spring Wall lead climb 5.4
7/2/07 Echo Cliffs, Piseco, did 2 climbs top rope on "grotto" wall.
7/1/07 Climbed Kings Phillips Spring Wall, top rope 5.4
6/30/07 Huckleberry Mtn. Started to lead crack left of Great Dihedral, got run out and Kate scrambled above and dropped me a rope. Followed base of Dihedral up to White Slab and scrambled edge of White Slab to summit. Horrible bushwack back down.
6/23/07 Huckleberry Mtn., Tallywacker (5.4) lead climb, 2 pitches, ran out of time to climb White Slab to top of mountain. 2 pitch rappel back to ground.
View from Huckleberry
At the crux
Kate rapping Tallywacker
6/16/07 Moss Island, Power Tower (5.6), 1st true lead climb on Tower Ramp(easy5thclass)
6/9/07 Moss Island, Appendix (5.5), both Hydraplex var., Playback (5.7), and Woki(5.7+) climbed. I couldn't quite get the reach after the dyno start directly up the overhang. Kate climbed Hydraplex var. exiting on left wall using little ripple to edge up, I climbed directly up the Appendix open book, negotiated overhang onto block and mantled block to finish. A good day of climbing, fun climbs with good challenges.
Appendix(5.5) is in deep in the open book and exiting r. or l. at block, Hydraplex var. climbs either wall, Playback (5.7) starts in the open book and turns the nose before heading up and Woki (5.7+) negotiates overhang directly
Setting up at the top of the Appendix open book
6/7/07 Moss Island, Lets Stand Him On His Head (5.1), both climbed, easy warm up, harder climb completed between LSHOHH and Climbski negotiating three small ledges. Able to leapfrog over second ledge with a cool long reach move.
6/2/07 Moss Island, Sno White (5.8), unfinished, made it a little higher almost completing the traverse from the ledge on Sno White to the ledge where Sister Moonshine and Sno White join.
5/28/07 Moss Island, Sister Moonshine (5.9) and Sno White (5.8), unfinished, Kate came close to making the turn in the corner and the grab onto the block.
5/26/07 Wind Wall, D'Vine Crack (5.7), sport, unfinished - need tricams to protect horizontal cracks on run out traverse.
5/26/07 Moss Island, Cane Crack (5.5), D climbed, "the hardest 5.5 in the world" according to a regular who stopped by, a sandbag, much more difficult than 5.5. The key is to swing out right from the ledge, pull up over the overhang and work the crack to the top. How many 5.5s have an overhang and necessitate a swing move?
5/12/07 Moss Island, Sail Away (5.9), D climbed (2x) without boulder start, Kate close just has to pull through top overhang.
5/4/07 Middle Settlement Lake, unfinished, possible FA if completed
4/22/07 Wind Wall, Recess Time (5.9+) bolted sport climb, unfinished, very sparsely bolted with just two bolts and an old piton from the 60's. Cracks won't take hexes or stoppers. Cams and tricams will make the scary runout doable.
