Joel and KT Experience Hueco
On Friday morning Katie, Joel, April and I woke up, packed the car and were off to Hueco for the weekend by 8:30AM. We had grand plans of getting up at 5AM and trying to get to the park early but after Sushi, a dip in the hot tub, and a few margaritas the night before we decided to sleep in a little.
We got to Hueco around 2PM, Joel and KT watched the orientation video and by 3PM we were climbing at “The Small Potatoes.” The weather was perfect. A few clouds were in the sky but conditions were awesome. Joel and KT managed to adjust to Hueco very quickly and they both sent a handful of problems at the warm-up area. So, with limited time left in the day we decided to show off a little and take them to Martini Roof.
When we got to Martini Roof we bumped into Vince, Tammy, Ben and Claudia. Unfortunately, Tammy had to work on Saturday and had to leave with Vince so we couldn’t convince them to stay. Claudia and Ben, our new Canadian friends who are SUPER nice, stayed with us for a little at Martini and then shared a campsite with us that night.
Joel and KT worked the beginning of “Baby Martini” V6, with their big sister April. April made a lot of progress, completed all of the moves and started working on her sending go. I worked the moves on “Shaken Not Stirred” V12 and managed to figure out the sequence from the beginning to the crux. I have to figure out 1 more move and then it’s time to link everything. Soon… After we were all totally burned out we decided to head back to the campsite for a relaxing dinner.
At dinner KT, Joel, April and I talked with Claudia and Ben, mostly about climbing. Climbing, climbing, climbing. What a nice night.
On Saturday we headed out on a tour that I lead, to East Mt. The tour was full with 10 people. Marcus and Dan drove from Tucson the night before so they linked up with us and were psyched to try their East Mt. projects. Dan and Marcus suprised the group by flashing the “Guilotine” V2. NICE! What a super classic problem. KT and Joel did a bunch of the V0s to the right of the wall while their big sister showed off by sending “Warm Up Roof” V4.
The next stop was “Hobbit In a Blender” V5 and “Tri Hard” V4. Our good friend Nate (currently a camp host at Hueco) sent “Tri Hard” with style. Awesome Nate! After everyone tried the collection of problems it was time for April’s go at “Dragonfly” V5. By the time we managed to get to Dragonfly it was getting later in the day. April had already sent Warm Up Roof and tried many other problems so the upper part of Dragonfly didn’t go. We were all cheering for her but it will have to wait until the next tour at East.
At about 1:30PM April was kind enough to relieve me of guiding and she took over the tour so I could climb. Our next stop was “The Dark Heart.” When we arrived at The Dark Heart everyone went crazy. I started working “Taxing The Pipe” V9 with Kyle while Joel tried some crazy running jumping V3. Check out the pictures…
KT, Dan and some others found a cool problem under a beautiful Juniper tree outside of the main area that they worked and sent. Marcus, Joel and Dan sent a super rad highball V0 in the back of the Dark Heart. And, I managed to send the scary, Taxing The Pipe problem! YEAH! Nate figured out “The Pipe Loader” V2. This wasn’t easy. I was laughing because he kept pulling on and kept getting stuck in this crazy position, unable to move upwards. Finally he unlocked the movement and sent. It looks much easier than it really is.
After the Dark Heart we went to the “Maiden Gully” but after about 20 minutes, a single black cloud brought rain and scared us out. Once we were heading back to headquarters the long scenic way a beautiful rainbow opened up in front of us. April detoured us over to two rock art sites, a “Tlolac” and “Starry-Eyed Man.”
On Sunday we decided to get an early start and warm up at the New Meadow. Joel and Katie managed to complete their first V1, “Mothertrucker!” April flashed the “Mandala.” NO. Not really, she did the slabby “Mandalahaha” V3.
After The New Meadow we made our last stop at “No One Here Gets Out Alive” V2. On his second attempt for the day Marcus sent the super classic with ease! Way to go man.
Once we arrived back at the hacienda in Tucson we all relaxed in the hot tub with margaritas, pizza, beer and wings. Ahhhhhh…. Another awesome weekend.
This entry (Permalink) was posted
on Monday, February 21st, 2005 at 8:44 pm and is filed under Bouldering, Hueco Tanks-Texas, Photos.
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0
feed.
You can skip to the end and leave a response
. Pinging is currently not allowed.
One Response to “Joel and KT Experience Hueco”
March 8th, 2005 at 11:30 am
paul,
you and dan look gay!
ha!
Leave a Reply