I am currently in San Diego visiting my family for the holidays. Today my brother Max and I went to the Santee Boulders (San Diego's most popular bouldering spot) and had a very nice day. PS these boulders are about house size. Lots of scary highballs!
Being that I still live in Wisconsin and the only bouldering I get to do is on quartzite or sandstone, it was nice to get on the rounded granite action that California is famous for.
It was a very interesting area (about 60 + problems V0-V4 mostly). The rock was interesting too, as most of the holds were side pulls or underclings on solid features. The feet were pretty much non-existent and on many of the problems, the feet were very polished. You could see on some problems black streak after black streak of rubber in parts. Yikes.
I did manage to bust through to the rand BADLY on my anasazi's, bummer, i will have to get them resoled once i am back in Wisconsin.
Anyways it was great bouldering again, with my brother of course, in pretty stellar temps.
Recommended Problems :
The Black Spot Problem V2 |
The Carousel V0
A pretty stellar boulder you could traverse all the way around. Max and I found some nice V2-3 problems on one side.Masochist Crack V2
A desperate 15 foot crack with PAINFUL hand jams. I don't think i've ever not wanted to fall off a problem more, i was all crunched up like a ball with hands and feet very close together in painful jams.
Bullet Hole Wall Crack V1 |
Unknown V4 |
Lieback Rock Dyno V3
Probably my proudest send of the day, tenuous stretchy moves to a good shelf off bad feet, then the rest flowed pretty well. Very fun! The boulder looks like a dinosaur egg!Well, i'll be back in WI tomorrow! Gotta train hard for Q on the D!
Peace,
Z
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