sharpendphotography : personal » climbing » the rostrum, sep 07 (more to come...) Up one level
jon heads up the 10d p5 that follows a cool thin-hands dihedral into short but pumpy roof. another really cool pitch! far down on the ledge are two climbers getting set to lead the crux 11c pitch.
jon emerges into the 11b crux of the 7th pitch, a steep hands section that is separated by a ~4-foot long offwidth (which you can't really see from this angle). big reaches between good hands, but so pumpy! this is the exact position i was in when i fell, too pumped to make the last move of the pitch. wild! if this pitch was on the ground, i don't think i would have had any trouble. but after 6 pitches of hard climbing (including one pitch of REALLY hard climbing -- the

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