Back to the boulders. It’s been a few weeks. I decided to just circuit today. To stay motivated I set an unrealistic goal of doing 250 points in one session. I quickly realized that this was out of my ability so I lowered the goal to 150 points. For those of you that don’t know what I mean just add up the grades of all the boulder problems you do in a single session. Repeats are not allowed. So if you climb a V5, V9 and V3, you get 17 points. I also told my self that V3 was the easiest problem I was allowed to do. Here’s the list of boulder problems I did in order.
- Titanic, 3 pts
- Titanic Low, 5 pts
- It’s About Time, 5 pts
- Air Tight Garage, 6 pts
- Tim’s Sloper Problem, 5 pts
- Sesame Street, 8 pts
- Viper, 5 pts
- Breakfast at Tiffany’s, 7 pts
- Sloppy Poppy, 4 pts
- Sloppy Poppy Traverse, 4 pts
- Hoop Wrangler, 5 pts
- Autobody (aka Fixin’ the Car), 8 pts
- Mantel Madness, 4 pts
- Worm World Cave, 8 pts
- Atlas, 4 pts
- Trad Killer, 4 pts
- Heartbreak Hotel, 3 pts
- Stinger Left, 6 pts
- No Troublems, 9 pts
- Jack’s Baby, 5 pts
- Mindbender, 7 pts
- Master Plan, 7 pts
- Golden Boy, 7 pts
- SDS to Holm Boy, 6 pts
- Swank Stretch, 5 pts
- Easy Chair, 4 pts
- Superfly, 4 pts
- Wafer Thin, 5 pts
- Crack Head, 3 pts
If I add everything up correctly that’s 156 points! I didn’t need to do one of the last problems, but I had lost count and I wanted to make sure I got past 150. I’m pretty psyched on this list. Most of the problems are well known classics. I didn’t even get down to the Gibb’s cave area. I think next time I could easily hit 200 points. Especially if I planned a little better. 30 problems in one session, especially on a hot day, is very draining. My skin is trashed and my toes really hurt (I’m also breaking in new Miura VS’). Having a few more hard problems in there would help for sure.
Circuiting is a great alternative to spending an entire day sessioning a project. You get a lot of mileage. Joining someone else’s circuit is good too because you usually climb new problems or at least one’s you don’t do often.
Do any of you guys have a Squamish circuit that you want to share here? It doesn’t have to be for points. It could be a warm up circuit, a V5 only circuit, a “Problems that start with S” circuit… you name it!
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I plenty of ideas for you. I have the list of the 7 impossibles. Which know one has come close to doing in a day. I also the 7 evil slabs any of which will break your will. Feel free to drop me a line if you want some climbing bullying.
I just noticed that friends Matt and Tim have have made similar posts in their blogs recently. Matt suggests that the unofficial point record is 307 and Tim describes a V4 circuit he did last weekend. So now don’t I sound unoriginal!