5/12 10pm

Today was good. After talking with my mentor I decided to take it as a more mellow of a day. Trying to climb hard for hours every day is bound to be a fruitless endeavor. After a certain point your arms are just tired and the capability to do something interesting kind of goes away. I still put up some lines but mostly I looked around and did some prospecting on where I might put an interesting route. I discovered some interesting holds that despite years of climbing on these walls I have never used. Later in the day I did some digging to find something I was worried I had lost.



My freshman year the climbing team actually made a book of routes. I think I have the only one left around and I want to scan it all soon. Tomorrow I want to try most of the routes. My hope is to include most of them in the book I am making for a bit more variety from my style, and because a lot of them look like really fun routes.


Daily Hours 4

Total Hours 14

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