So how does this go? Squat in squalor, sip some coffee at 7 am and drive a paved road to 10,678 ft above sea level. This is New Mexico's version of the Black Canyon: top-down granite adventure climbing.
Mark linked p1 and p2 for a 58 meter pitch up a sustained 5.8 face splitter that got cruxy when it seamed into some face moves.
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Nick on some fun climbing about 50 meters into it.
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I linked p3 and p4 for a 45-50 meter affair with a fabulous corner having a cruxy 5.9+ move through a bulge after turning this roof, then some entertaining face climbing to a fat ledge.
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Mark pulls through the aforementioned cruxy bulge.
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After some third-classing up a gully, Nick drew this awesome 50+ meter pitch that started with a 5.9 bulge into an offwidth.
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I took a video of Nick cruising up some offwidth after the roof.
Mystical object
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Then we hiked over to the ultra classic top pitch of a climb called Second Coming. Two climbers were just getting ready to climb it. We were nice enough to wait to rappel to the ledge, but I paparazzi'd this guy Leonard cruising up this stellar 10- face crack
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Nick and I did the ROSHAMBO for the pitch, but he defeated me on the rubber round for a 2-1 victory so he got to lead the pitch. LOVELY.
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WOW this is my new backyard and it's climbable basically all year except for summer thunderstorms and winter blizzards!?
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