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Saturday, Jan 25. 2003  –  Category: Musings

went climbing at Big Rock (sorry, no photos) today with Kostas & Tung. we did the usual routes to warm up on (5.9, 5.8 down at the bottom), then Kostas led up ‘The Trough’ (5.6) to get accustomed to leading again. Once we go to the upper routes, I led ‘Mickey Mantle’ (5.9) and Kostas seconded it. Then we swung the anchor over to ‘Top Rope Problem’ (5.10a) and all three of us tackled it. I finally got my redpoint on it, and I did it cleanly instead of reaching for the ledge on the left – so I was pretty stoked. Lastly, we swung an anchor over to a bolted route (wasn’t on the topo, so I don’t know its name or rating) to the right of ‘Mickey Mantle’. The start was a bitch, but Kostas and I both on-sighted it after figuring out the start.