Finally after a couple weeks off of rest due to my hurt ankle, I visited Ben, Garret and Bruce in Golden to introduce Garrett to Colorado climbing. Saturday ended up being a scorcher of a day. I made sure to get some rays while climbing.
We bounced all around the place, putting up two – 5.7 routes to warm up on. The one felt little more stout than the other. Afterwards Ben’s other friends showed up and did some climbs next to us. They really enjoyed the wide cracks, which make me shudder. Before moving on down the cliff, a climb caught my eye, a nice 10c with a funky cross-over move.
Afterwards, we were further down and got on a couple old routes. Ben put up an old 5.7 that was run out and me a 10b where I got to place a black tricam. Here we also played with my new camera lens and got come cool close up shots.
Lastly we went way down the line, when but climbed a horrible chimney (again just like last time). Everyone groveled their way up it making the most awkward and horrible noises alongside impromptu contortionist moves.
The next day we did some moderate trad climbing boulder canyon across from Boulder Falls and my camera battery died during the climbing. Lots of tourists took our pictures.
