It is Hot

I had plans to go out to Millbrook today to do some climbing. But when I woke up at was 76 degrees and in the next half hour it was up to 80, and then 85, finally peaking at a record high 94. So obviously Millbrook was canceled and plans for swimming commenced.

Found a pretty neat spot near town that you can do some jumping, swimming, floating, sunning, and even some deep water bouldering. The water is probably at least 15 feet deep, and the jump is probably a little bit higher (making the bouldering a little bit higher than 15 feet too...). Super awesome, totally neat, radically tubular. If it had it's own facebook page I would "like" it.

We stayed out there for a while, maybe till like 2:00 or so, then headed back into town for some burgers at Market Market (best burgers around, easily). After lunch we decided, for some strange reason, that it would be a good idea to go out to Triple Right and try some hard routes. Turns out it was a bad idea.

Triple Right is buggy and it doesn't get much wind. And it also turns out the roof cracks, in the Gunks, in 85 degree weather, with 80% humidity are not the best idea. Think of trying to hold onto sweaty crimps, or even jugs. Your finger tips want to just grease right off. Now think of hand jams. You need the entirety of the back of your hand to create friction so that you can stay on. Now, when you climb horizontal roof cracks that require full body weight hand jams with said conditions, you just aren't going to have success.

But rock climbing kicks ass, and even though I have many bug bites, it was a fun adventure. Arachnious is an awesome 5.11c sandbag, and I'd like to go back and send sometime. Check out a write up about it here: http://mammutathleteteam.blogspot.com/2008/11/there-are-no-cracks-in-gunks.html.