Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Hola! from El Chorro

Traversing in the sun on Amptrax
Chamois things that can climb harder slabs than we can, they struggle with finger locks though 
Sophie coming round the corner on El Navegator
Awesome 6b+ pitch on El Navegator
First few days in Chorro and me and Soph have done some fun stuff. We started off with the classic easy multipitch Amptrax (6a+) which was  great. We abbed off after 7 pitches as the sun was going down but not sure we abbed in quite the right place, we think going an extra pitch gives a better line of anchors. The next day I was grumbling about my calves which are no longer used to slab climbing after 3 months of inactivity but we went climbing anyway and they survived.
We warmed up at Sector Suiza on the arab steps and did a nice 6b Dos tetas tiran and then did an excellent multipitch El Navegator (7a+). Sophie did the two trickiest pitches, the bolting is ok but a bit spaced on the 6c pitch and annoyingly the crux is very badly bolted (but escapable). There is a totally fab cracked wall pitch and the last two pitches are in a fantastic position which makes it totally worth doing.

New years eve was spent at la finca which was serving mohitos! I really like mohitos.