The Learning Curve

I suppose it's time for another post. And as a warning to any of my loyal readers, this may well turn into a climbing blog by default, as pretty much all I've been doing is climbing. Which is great, I'm certainly not complaining.

So on that note, I've spent the last few weekends at Castle Hill and if weather cooperates, I'll be there this weekend as well.

Before I came here, I knew climbing at Castle Hill would not be easy for me. Though after a month and a half of climbing there, I'm starting to get a bit frustrated at my lack of progress. A good portion of the problems are mantles or at least end with one. I'm not very good at mantles, so I've been diligently practicing. There are two problems that I keep going back to that I'd love to finish: The Unrepeatable and Big Bubba The Buddha. I don't feel like I'm very close on Unrepeatable yet, but I know I can do Big Bubba. There are a couple of easier V4 mantles that continue to shut me down as well. So hopefully this weekend the wind will be behind my back and I'll be able to tick some projects off my list.

And in more positive news, I made some noteworthy progress at the Cave yesterday. My project of the moment is a route called Gorilla Grips. I got most of the way up it, which I thought was pretty good considering it's a 27. The individual moves are not so hard, it's just quite pumpy. So I think if I warm up as best I can (which is difficult at the Cave), I'll have a good shot at sending it. We'll see next week.

I think that's it for now. If I'm feeling inspired tomorrow, maybe I'll write a post about something other than climbing!

Hope all is well at home.