Red River Gorge

I completely forgot to post about my trip to Red River Gorge, so here are some photos. I'm pretty awful at this blogging thing and at have a "social media presence." I'm not even sure that's the term.

We arrived very late but woke up to a beautiful view at the campground at Miguel's Pizza.

Ian climbed the 5.10 next to Deez Nuts which was retrobolted.

I led boilerplate which was probably one of the best 5.8s I'm ever climbed. Deez Nuts is also a solid route.

Ian attempted Flying-Serpents which had a sketchy finish. He ended up having to climb the first part three times. 

We got a group shot outside Miguel's Pizza before the drive home. 

BETABLOC

Hi everyone,

Starting tomorrow I'm going to be setting for the 1st Annual BETABLOC competition at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute CAVE. I'm so excited. I've been drooling over the climbing holds that we finally were able to buy and I'm psyched to use them. In addition, we got some sick volumes from Escape Climbing.

This comp feels like my baby. I did a lot of planning towards it. I somehow managed to get a great deal of sponsors, I picked out a bunch of climbing holds, I helped plan out where the volumes are going and what grades we're going to have.

I'm really excited to finally be allowed to set for a real comp at WPI. I have set for comps at WPI in the past, but they've been much more laid back and were only for freshmen to compete in. This is the first comp for all students that I've been allowed to set for. In the past, I haven't been allowed to set because if I did, we wouldn't have any girls competing in my category. It sucks that that's how that works, but we just don't have a lot of girls at a tech school, and there are even less female climbers. 

Anyway, enough of that. The problems are going to be sick. We got Scarabs and Minimeats from Teknik, Bladders from So Ill, and the Blockus 3XL from Rock Candy Holds. Since we're not separating men and women, the winning climbers will have to be well rounded climbers. I'll post updates as the days go by.