Friday, June 17, 2011

More linkups in the cave!

Last week, with imposing clouds hanging over the Gallatin Canyon, Jess and I jumped ship on our plans to climb at the Cube after work and headed to the cave instead.  Since it's been raining so much this spring, we've been climbing at the Cave a ton and I've repeated everything there multiple times.  This time I wanted to do something different.  Certainly there must be another linkup to do!  As it turns out, climbing Weapons into Hantavirus is a pretty fun route.  I climbed Weapons to the third bolt and then headed left to the fourth bolt on Hanta.  It feels harder than Weapons and definately easier than Hanta, so I think it probably comes in around 12d.  I've never heard of anyone climbing this linkup, so I'm going to go ahead and call it Influenza.  A couple nights ago I was able to link it into Bi-Winning.  I'm still trying to figure out what to call it.  Maybe Droopy Eyed Armless Children? 

I've also been bouldering some more.  I headed out to Whiskey last week to try and finish off Boogey Monster, which I'd put some work in on a couple weeks ago.  It took a little figuring out, but I was finally able to put it together and send.  I also did a little wandering around and found a new boulder and put up a V5 called Redneck Yacht Club.  There's a cool problem with a two finger pocket next to it that I need to go out and finish off as well.  Here's a video I made from the day.  Enjoy!