Sunday, May 20, 2018

May Little River Canyon

I went sport climbing with John Simpson on May 19 at Little River Canyon in Alabama. The forecast called for rain, so he had suggested LRC as a dry destination with very overhung routes. I only cleanly climbed a single route, the (soft for the grade) Ego East. I climbed the following routes:

Obsession 5.10c
Ego East 5.11a (this felt easier than Obsession)
Guillotine Flake 5.11d
Another 5.10c (5.11a?) 20 feet left of Guillotine Flake
Slick Willie (5.11a?)
JDR 5.11d had a really hard mantel move "getting out of the pool"
Buster Brown 5.11b. I was really tired by the time I got to this one and was hanging all over it.

John climbed:

Obsession 5.10c
Ego East 5.11a
Monkey Trails (5.12b?)
Lion 5.12b (4 times). Unfortunately, he never finished it cleanly.