Another great night of climbing . . . My daughter and I went to the Campus Comp at The Spot up in Boulder – Super Fun! They had 20 campus only bouldering problems. These old bones had to fight my way up all the way to the end. Last year they had stopwatches at each climb and you needed to write down your best crushing time; this meant you ended up doing each problem a few times. Now this year, they set it up differently and it was simple, straight forward, and in my opinion a lot more fun. You basically had to climb as many problems as possible. I was able to climb the first 17 out of 20 problems and I was totally psyched, particularly on 17.
Problem 18 was a super reach to big sloping marshmallow or it was a dyno. I did not have enough power for the big throw and I totally suck at dynos, let alone campus dynos. I felt 19 was more obtainable, but by the end I was wasted. And once again it was a big throw off a foothold on a sloper to a good rail and then a HUGE throw to the top. Maybe I could have pulled it off if I was a bit fresher???
I almost decked hard on 17, the beginning was a cake walk, but the finish was on a down sloping rail, impossible to match. You basically had to launch off it as soon as you matched. My first attempt did not go well, I tried to go static, not good. You were basically launching yourself as you were falling; I don’t know how I caught it, but I did. It was super fun to get 17 . . .
The comp was not about winning or your score, it was just about having fun. It was a BLAST!
May We Always Be Crazy!!!
~Cornell
