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Posted by climbingbum on 10/14/2007 on climbingbum's blog
Groups: i boulder.

Ok so a lot of people think Hocking Hills doesnt have a lot of good problems, well your wrong! I came across this problem on my first visit to this area. We bouldered at the Triangle Boulder for the little time we had and i tried the arete for a small amount of time i had. I didnt get very far. i was stumped on the beggining move. So i decided to try it another day. Well my day came on a friday night with the remaining time we had. Me and my brother, Ryan and my dad were looking for an area called Six Crack. We failed in finding it but we did put up some cool FA's. One of which is called Fried Ham. We did see a lot of boulders that we are goona go back and clean and a highball which we will send. But in the last 45 minutes we had we decided to go back to the Triangle Boulder. I was determined to at least get the starting nailed none the less the whole problem. Well the key to the starting was you had to grab 2 underclings while sitting down instead of standing up. Well after i got the hang of that I began working on traversing up the arete. very slopey and somewhat slick I threw some chalk on it and it solved some of the problems. Then began the feet. Smear, heelhock, more smearing and feet cutting and heel hooking. Then the topout. I was scared to fall at this point due to no crash pad, so i threw my legs to the side of the boulder in the pockets and topped out there. I had sent it!!! My heart was beating like a mad man! I was soo proud of myself that i had sent my first V3! I didnt have time to celebrate since it was getting dark fast so i got off the boulder and ran to the car climbing shoes and all. There i celebrated with feeling good and looking foward to doing it again.

Just thought i would share my first project send! I am kinda bad at writing these things but im trying to get better! Enjoy!

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4 comments

simonty says:

<em>simonty</em>'s picture

Congrats on the project.Been in Spain working on a project but got rained off on the last day by the most mental storm ever seen so a house get washed away and a car go floating past and a 11 hour lightning storm.
So will have to wait to next year now to nail my project had the crux just about nailed to.

Ladianne says:

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Awesome job sending the V3!! Enjoy the journey toward your next project's grand finale!! Good work!

climbingbum says:

<em>climbingbum</em>'s picture

Thanks! My next project is goona be a lot harder with longer moves and its Highball! Anyone who wants to work it with me, your welcome to anytime!

badash says:

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good job man!

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