Spring was a mess with the weather, lockdowns, and trips to maintain some semblence of sanity. A couple of the weekends, I was able to spend time out in the NC wilderness
Joe and I put in some work on the Glass Menagerie again this spring. With the 2-3 weekends trips, we made some good progress on the route, and surpassed our previous experiences. Joe was still able to fire the 12d pitch with his death crimping abilities. It took me some great effort, but I was to find new beta for the start, which was previously shutting me down. (I got to go far left, and do some big span moves)
Eventually, we were able to push the whole way up through the Crux Roof Pitch. Joe seems to have figure out well enough that all the moves are possible for him. I am another story currently, from the blown out left hamstring there is a very intensive left heel hook move, in the crux move off to sloping crimps. Not looking forward to that at all. 🙂 So the new high point is the Anchor off the Roof Pitch (This belay spot sucks, but a 65M rappel make getting down easy.)
The other trip, I was finally able to climb with the elder Massey. We went to small local crag that had great lines, that we not gimmes. You kind need atleast 1 piece of gear for all routes and they are pretty stout crimpers. The 2 pure tradlines completely sucked us in. Nothing quite like thinking you are getting on a 5.9 handcrack that then turns into feeling like 5.11 rattly fingers.
