Gunks again: Casa climbs

Sundance, Casa Emilio, and Casablanca. All of them are fun, each one is different. Oh, and for real adventure, try the second pitch of Casablanca. Good quality climbing on lichen-overriden rock with some route-finding challenges.
Pictures from Sundance, Casa Emilio, and Casablanca…

Gunks: Lost and Flying

“Rišo, I think I am falling!”
“OK, I am ready.”
“…but I don’t want to…”
“Well, then you better climb on…”
“AAAAAAAAAAH!”
The rope tightened and snatched me up from the small belay ledge with Ľuboš dangling on the other end. Few people on Arrow, just next to us, turned to see who is disturbing the tranquility of the Sunday [...]

Gunks 6/8-10/2007

Still recovering from the last climbing weekend in the Gunks. On Saturday we scored over 12 hours of climbing – I can still feel them. Should not the time spent hanging on rocks be a better measure of die-hard climbing, rather than grades climbed?
Traditionally, on the way to New Paltz we “managed” to make an [...]

Tree Climbing

On Saturday I exchanged rock for wood and went to help my friend Marc with cleaning dead branches off the trees on his yard. Alex was my trustworthy belayer, albeit harnessless – he made a make-shift chest harness using the bowline knot. I climbed 4 trees with the difficulty ranging between 5.3 and 5.6, mostly [...]

Memorial Weekend in Rumney

The long weekend called for climbing trip. After discarding the multipitch Cannon Mountain in New Hampshire due to the prospect of shabby weather, our choice fell on Rumney, coincidentally also in New Hampshire.
During our 3-day stay we visited 4 crags – The Parking Lot Wall, Jimmy Cliff, The 5.8 Crag and The Main Cliff. Each [...]