Obi's Black Mtn shuttle service, day 2

Final roundtrip service of Obi's Black Mtn shuttle service was today. The UCSD crew and I (Robb, Larry and Johnnie) all drove up together. We were a motley band, ready for battle - armed with coconuts, crashpads and chalk. The 3 C's, as I like to call it. Outfitted perfectly, we started the adventure.

Instead of our usual circuit, a request was made to go somewhere new. So we started with the lookout tower area. A relatively short walk up a hill to a new bouldering area was a great warmup to some of the problems we found. I haven't been to this area much so most of it was virgin for me - between the 4 of us, we managed to find some fun problems to ascend.

Not only that, but we came across a beautiful line up a prow of a tall boulder. I drooled. You see - with the previous day seeing the send of my last two projects, I was a little bummed. I didn't really know what else to cut my teeth on... till today. "Kracker Boy" - a gorgeous problem with big throws up high. There's a lot of subtle techinque I'll have to master before I can send this - pure brawn isn' going to help with the sloping holds and tiny crimpers. I'm ecstatic!

As for everyone's post battle carnage report, it more or less breaks down to people meeting or exceeding their goals:

Obi: sent Big Greeny and Flight of the Courier again. Not to mention a slew of random problems in the lookout tower area. attempted Kracker boy and managed to get half way up.

Johnnie: climbed two unknown problems - one of which was a subtle limit problem on slopers. made progress on an assortment of problems.

Larry (aka Mr not Not accident prone man): despite a shoulder injury, managed to get up an unknown problem. woo hoo!

Robb: progress on Boneheads, Kracker Boy, and a whole host of other problems. Sent an unknown number of unknown problems at lookout tower. Sent Big Greeny. Intrigued by Flight of the Courier.

Everyone had a "not-zero" weekend (meaning everyone walked away climbing at least one thing... most excellent!)