Climbing at Grotto

The weather today was fantastic and even though I (seem to believe that) I have tons to do the prospect of climbing was just too strong. Sean and I headed out to Grotto Canyon for the day.

The first wall we tried was pretty good, lots of good climbs in our range but there was a lot of polishing at the bottom… almost like a creek ran through there!

Hemingway Wall: Nymphet** (8), Scherherazade** (9)

Sean on Hemingway Wall

Paintings Wall: Scavenger8 (9) <– this one was my favourite of the day and we did a few laps of it

Sean on Scavenger

Jon on Scavenger

Yup, some wicked moves…. and no cheating, I swear!

Upper Right Wing: Cameo* (9) <– This was right at the end of the day and between us we barely had enough forearm strength to grunt to the top… it was not pretty!

Sean setting up on Cameo

Right before the slowest fall I have ever seen!

All in all we had an awesome day and I’m pretty bagged tonight. I hope the weather holds for the rest of the week so that more mountain trips will follow.

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