Saturday made for another fine outing at Black with a great crew and the traditional champagne to welcome in another season. Props to Aron C. for completing two new lines at the Republic on the ironically dubbed "pixie boulder." This is the first boulder one sees when approaching the Republic, 30+ ft of slightly less the vertical face and even more slightly featured. Quintessential
oldschool Black! Below Craig is warming up on the center line
This Monkeys Gone to Heaven, the original line that runs directly up the center of the face at around V2/3. Aron added a line on either side of this both about a grade harder, a bit more frightening, and both share the center start. The left line begins by moving
diagonally up and left to the
arete on poor smears, and the right, named
Where is my Mind, joins up with the
under-cling seam above the small pine. All three lines have many stars and are a great rite of passage into the world of tall slab at Black.
Matty on Twighlight
And Anthony T sending Twighlight. Nice work on this and Metamorphosis in one day!
