Cold, yet fun day…


Cold, yet fun day…

Posted In: Bouldering, Pictures
Ethan Pringle is back at Mt. Clark, home to that one route first done by that one guy:
Projecting a route like this requires all of your attention, and having to devote all of your attention to a route like this can get really tiring really fast. At some point, you just want to get it over with. Of course, afterward you feel a mix of relief and loss. Relief that you’re done and the epic is over, and loss that this magnificent line doesn’t require your presence anymore. But for me, I think I’ll have to take a nice long break from serious route projects for a little while after this. Like Randy Levitt said, “It’s like a limestone El Cap.” Obviously, that’s a bit of an exaggeration, but it does sort of convey the amount of work required to complete a project of this caliber.
Pringle is no stranger to Jumbo Love, having tried it even before its FA back in 2008. You can see some footage of those attempts here.
I don’t know about you, but I always try my best to climb close to an actual bathroom. In case you don’t, the Access Fund has a nice refresher on what to do when nature calls.
I guess it shouldn’t be surprising that with training like this that Canadian Yves Gravelle was able to climb his first V14 in Daniel Woods’ Echale in Clear Creek Canyon according to his 8a scorecard.
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Cool pix. Cool day, in both senses of the word. We need 2 do this again sometime…When its warmer.
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Great pics – thanks for posting more inspiration.
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Hey Old Milwaukee, buy a belt
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all up in your blogz, clickin your ad-zorz
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where is the dodge? isn’t there another “Whiskey a go-go” (a moderately hard, isolated route) there?
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It’s southwest of Madison about 45 minutes. There is a .13a there called Secret Agent Man. Just from looking at it it doesn’t seem like it could possibly be as good as Whiskey just based on rock quality alone but I have no idea what the movement is like.
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