Blitzkrieg Day at Mt. Woodson
Ben and I hit Woodson today with the goal of doing thirty routes.. BLITZKRIEG DAY!!
Here are the rules:
1. At least one person has to send each route.
2. You have to give maximal effort and try at least 5 times, then you yell “BLITZKRIEG!” and run off to the next route.
3. Downclimbs don’t count.
So it’s probably easier to actually send the routes than to be the guy who has to thrash ’til he’s destroyed.
We started on the warmup boulders, quickly cranking out 8 routes, then worked our way up the hill. Along the way we managed to tick all the hard cracks I’ve ever done out there:
- Aids Victim
- Hear my train a-comin
- Driving South
- California Night
- Mother Superior
Super stoked about that! We completely demolished ourselves on the Blasted Boulder for route #30, but didn’t get it, though Ben came tantalizingly close twice. So instead of our climactic finish we had to console ourselves with some lame mantel.
DEE-STROYED
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Holy shit! You must have bloody stumps where there used to be fingers.
You guys are my heroes, you climbed all of my projects in the same day!
Yeah WTF I can’t do any of those!!!
my fingers were bloody stumps (not as bad two weeks ago though). The evidence suggests that falling causes more skin damage. I’ve also considered the possibility that Nate is made of iron…
Little known Woodson fact:
Royal Robbins and Sir Edmund Hillary first started Blitzkrieg Day in 1964. It was Hillary who came up with the idea in order to get as many routes in as possible after work and make it down in time for Taco Tuesdays at Rubios.
cool idea.
You guys are awesome! I’m jealous I didn’t get to participate. I’m super weak right now, but I’m going to try to get strong before I get back! I still haven’t gotten Driving South!
You must have photos of your ascents…post them on rc.com if you would. Good work!
Thanks!
Actually, we didn’t get any photos this day, we were way too frantic to snap any. But next time i’m out there i’ll try to get some on some of these routes.
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