Day 1

5/10/2021  6:30pm


 I woke up this morning to the sound of rain and thought “Oh come on, really?”. I figured it was worth checking anyway to see if one side of the Chapel was dry and low and behold the whole thing was. Getting started was a little slow. As it turns out there is no great way to carry 3 coffee table sized crash pads across campus, but loaded down I made my way over and got set up.

I kind of sat down and looked at the walls not really knowing where to begin. After some looking around I remembered one of the cooler lines I had climbed in the fall. I set up the pads and got into my rigid shoes and made it about 2 moves before having the realization, I haven’t climbed in months and have lost all of the calluses on my fingers. Something cool about the chapel is that it is all kinds of different rocks, but among them some are particularly nasty to pull up on. Sore fingers aside, I managed to put together 5 routes today. I think I will probably be able to do more than that in a day which should lead to a health catalogue of routes in a few weeks time. I also set up the google doc for it and I have been experimenting with the format of depicting a route. All in all a solid and fun start to the project.

Daily Hours: 5

Total Hours: 5

Comments

  1. RossMay 10, 2021 at 8:01 PM

    Very cool. Will you have a map for your routes at the end?

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