As I studied the razor sharp crimps of the partially chalked, slightly overhanging wall, home to the classic Right El Murray (v8), my friend Justin said, \u201cHey, are you going to try that climb? Good luck dude, because if you fail to tick it you\u2019ll only go home half a hardman.\u201d<\/p>\n
I was like, \u201cUh, whatever macho saying you just told me doesn\u2019t sound good. Where did you come up with that rule? I mean, I\u2019ve basically written this crimp nightmare off of my tick list but for some reason I\u2019m going to try it again today. I guess by the sounds of it, I have to do this climb to really get credit for completing the three El Murrays. Right?\u201d<\/p>\n
Justin said, \u201cCheck out the guidebook man, I\u2019m not lying.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe steepest section of the wall is home to the Left, Center, and Right El Murrays. The Center El Murray has been justly dubbed Hueco\u2019s Greatest Problem. Many a tough guy has had fits at the El Murrays, knowing that if he doesn\u2019t tick all three he\u2019ll leave Hueco only half a hardman.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n John Sherman, \u201cTexas Tall Tales\u201d It was funny because after hearing Justin tell me that goofy phrase something in my brain clicked. I thought to myself, \u201cI can\u2019t leave this problem undone. I have to do it. I have to do it even if my fingers snap off. I can\u2019t leave here today knowing that I\u2019m half a hardman. I am a FULL HARDMAN!\u201d Yes. Psyched. The moment of psychedness overcame my body and I yelled to April, \u201cHey, quit working Mushroom Roof, gimme the pads now! I\u2019m psyched.\u201d She was like, \u201cAlright fine, but hurry up. My feet are getting cold watching you flail on your attempts.\u201d<\/p>\n Oh well, it didn\u2019t quite register what she said. I grabbed the pads, threw them down, chalked up and pulled on.<\/p>\n Thought process: Ahhhhhhh. Damn it feels good to be a HARDMAN!<\/p>\n posted by pjv<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As I studied the razor sharp crimps of the partially chalked, slightly overhanging wall, home to the classic Right El Murray (v8), my friend Justin said, \u201cHey, are you going to try that climb? Good luck dude, because if you fail to tick it you\u2019ll only go home half a hardman.\u201d I was like, \u201cUh, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nClimbing Magazine No. 116.<\/p>\n
\n– Ouch, left hand fingers crimp side-pull, thumb digs deep into a sharp spike
\n– Right hand crimps something but first move is to a hold that doesn\u2019t really exist and isn\u2019t chalked that much but I pretend it\u2019s there and crimp HARD. Ouch again.
\n– Ok, left foot up, the jarring movement of my foot grinds my left thumb and right crimp deeper, ouch. Oh well, go.
\n– One more left foot smack. Ouch.
\n– Cross over to another no-chalk imaginary crimp. OUCH! Oh man I stuck it!
\n– Don\u2019t fall now! Or you will have to repeat those moves again
\n– Right hand to a sharp, fairly good, side-pull…breath baby
\n– Set feet and move left hand from very painful crimp to less painful crimp. Mini ouch.
\n– Now, setup, look, spot the final jug hueco with birds nest inside, leap and do not damage bird\u2019s nest…STICK! Yeah. Let out loud yell for good measure and to unleash all the pent up pain. Whoooo hoooooo.
\n– Top out and say, \u201cDamn, I\u2019m never doing that climb ever again!\u201d<\/p>\n