Hunters Bouldering Adventure
Last weekend Buddy, Christian (dude I just met), and I went bouldering at Hunters just south of State College, PA.
Buddy and I had both been there before, with different people at different times, but Christian had never been.
We finally got there about noon on Saturday and hit this first problem called the matt hill arete. I remember doing it the last time I was here.
Right next to the matt hill arete was this little slab problem we played on too. It only had three or four moves, but they required a lot of balance and core strength.
Christian was the only one with enough of both those qualities to get it.
After the little slab problem we bopped around a bit from one thing to the next. The number of potential problems is silly. You nearly only have to reach out and touch something you can climb.
Eventually we ended up on this pseudo overhung traverse to play on. I say pseudo because though it was an overhang, we were only traversing the vertical face above the overhung portion.
As we were finishing up, a storm rolled in, so we crawled in underneath with all our gear and Gretchen to wait out the storm.
When the storm let up enough to crawl out, we started heading home. Of course that would have been too easy. On our way out there was this problem (standard american accent I think) that looked dry and challenging, so stayed and played a little longer.
After struggling for an hour or so, none of us got it, so we headed back to Julian to get cleaned up and get some food.
Mike was nice enough to let us crash at his place for the weekend...
so we were nice enough to buy him dinner and beer at Otto's brew pub in State College.
Sunday morning we were up and back out at Hunter's for some more.
The overnight storms had passed and everything was dry again.
Buddy and Christian even gave up looking cool in shorts and wore their knickers on Sunday. Things is serious when y'all got your knickers on.
We climbed for five hours on Sunday.
Beers were definitely in order when we were through.
Already looking forward to and planning the next one.
- b
Buddy and I had both been there before, with different people at different times, but Christian had never been.
We finally got there about noon on Saturday and hit this first problem called the matt hill arete. I remember doing it the last time I was here.
Right next to the matt hill arete was this little slab problem we played on too. It only had three or four moves, but they required a lot of balance and core strength.
Christian was the only one with enough of both those qualities to get it.
After the little slab problem we bopped around a bit from one thing to the next. The number of potential problems is silly. You nearly only have to reach out and touch something you can climb.Eventually we ended up on this pseudo overhung traverse to play on. I say pseudo because though it was an overhang, we were only traversing the vertical face above the overhung portion.
As we were finishing up, a storm rolled in, so we crawled in underneath with all our gear and Gretchen to wait out the storm.
When the storm let up enough to crawl out, we started heading home. Of course that would have been too easy. On our way out there was this problem (standard american accent I think) that looked dry and challenging, so stayed and played a little longer.
After struggling for an hour or so, none of us got it, so we headed back to Julian to get cleaned up and get some food.Mike was nice enough to let us crash at his place for the weekend...
so we were nice enough to buy him dinner and beer at Otto's brew pub in State College.Sunday morning we were up and back out at Hunter's for some more.
The overnight storms had passed and everything was dry again.
Buddy and Christian even gave up looking cool in shorts and wore their knickers on Sunday. Things is serious when y'all got your knickers on.We climbed for five hours on Sunday.
Beers were definitely in order when we were through.Already looking forward to and planning the next one.- b
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