5/13 11pm

It has been a long day, but for the most part a good one. Today was just as nice as you can ask for. 60s, sunny, gentle breeze, and not a cloud in the sky. I spent the first part of today with the routes the climbing team made my freshman year. I don’t know what I was expecting, but I was pleased with what I found. A lot of the routes were tricky and interesting.


I also came to a seemingly obvious revelation as to why so much of the climbing on the chapel feels awkward. It is the only place I have ever actually climbed a perfectly vertical face. If a face is slightly over hung or slightly less than vertical really dictates how it is climbed and when the face is strait up and down it doesn’t quite fit either style. I want to try and figure out and verbalize what the vertical style is like.


Toward the end of the day I spend an hour or so with my mentor walking around and talking about the project and he shared some of the routes he remembered from decades past. I am going to have to go explore them soon.


Lastly I have been thinking about the format and I wanted to try a vector image. I don’t think it will be practical, and I didn't quite use the right tools but it is pretty cool. I wanted to almost have a map of each rock, which I could still do, but I don't think it would make it any clearer.



 

Daily Hours: 5

Total Hours: 19

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