Not A Bad Ticklist…For A Lifetime

Mrs. Narc and I spent the past 4 days enjoying an amazing Fall weekend in Kentucky’s Red River Gorge.  I’ve never been to the Red this late in the season and the Fall colors were simply stunning.  The weather was surprisingly warm Thursday and Friday which made for pleasant conditions at the crag, even if it was a touch on the hot side.

On the climbing front, I took it easy for the most part because I’d been diligently training sitting on the couch the past 2 weeks resting my shoulder in the hopes that I would be (relatively) healthy for my trip to Hueco this week.  I tried hard on a couple of routes, and the small taste of climbing at the Red again has me extremely motivated to focus on climbing at the Red much more often next year.  I have an absurdly long list of abandoned projects I need to get done.

Speaking of trying hard and being motivated, Jonathan Siegrist continued his tear at the Red this weekend.  While I was kayaking through an old mine on Saturday (which was awesome), Siegrist was padding his impressive ticklist at the Motherlode.  Based on the parsing of his blog posts, here is Siegrist’s ticklist thus far from his sub-2 week visit to the Red:

• Lucifer (5.14c, 5th try)
• Southern Smoke (5.14c, 3rd try)
• 50 Words For Pump (5.14c, 5th try)
• Thanatopsis (5.14b, 3rd try)
• God’s Own Stone (5.14a, Flash)
• Transworld Depravity (5.14a, Flash)
• Cherry Red (5.14a, 3rd try)
• Omaha Beach (5.14a, Flash)
• Swingline (5.13d, 2nd try)
• True Love (5.13d, 2nd try)
• Ultra Perm (5.13d)
• Nagypapa (5.13d, 2nd try)
• Black Gold (5.13c, Onsight)
• Pushing Up Daisies (5.13c, Onsight)
• The Madness (5.13c, Onsight)
• Golden Boy (5.13b, Onsight)
• Cut Throat (5.13b, Flash)
• The Return Of Darth Maul (5.13b, Onsight)
• Paradise Lost (5.13b, Onsight)
• The Castle Has Fallen (5.13b, 2nd try)
• Dracula (5.13b, Onsight)
• BOHICA (5.13b, Onsight)
• Elephant Man (5.13b, 2nd try)
• The Legend (5.13b, Flash)
• Triple Sec (5.13a, Onsight)
• Snooker (5.13a, Onsight)
• Convicted (5.13a, 1st try)
• Skin Boat (5.13a, 1st try)
• The Force (5.13a, Onsight)
• 40 Ounces of Justice (5.13a)
• Prometheus Unbound (5.13a, Onsight)
• Tuna Town (5.12d)
• Team Wilson (5.12d)
• Leave It To Beavis (5.12d)
• Jesus Wept (5.12d, Onsight)
• Peace Frog (5.12d, Onsight)
• Mind Meld (5.12d, Onsight)
• 8 Ball (5.12d, Onsight)

With a few climbing days left it will be interesting to see what else Siegrist is able to get done.