{"id":207,"date":"2008-08-12T09:02:07","date_gmt":"2008-08-12T13:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/?p=207"},"modified":"2008-12-27T13:01:41","modified_gmt":"2008-12-27T17:01:41","slug":"day-61-the-onslaught-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/?p=207","title":{"rendered":"Day 61: The Onslaught Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As predicted, Mike and Raquel have settled into the Rocklands groove with ease.  The climbing here is very similar to that of Hueco Tanks, of which we are all very much accustomed to.  And slowly but surely, the four of us are beginning to crank.  Hard.  <\/p>\n<p>After a couple warm-up days, we\u2019ve now embarked on Round One of the onslaught.  On Sunday, we headed back to the Plateau Boulders here on the de Pakhuys farm.  Raquel quickly cleaned up her send of <em>Girl on Our Mind, 6c<\/em> with ease, ticking it first go of the day.  We lovingly refer to this stellar climb as \u201cThe South African Nobody\u2019s\u201d, likening it to Hueco\u2019s classic <em>Nobody Here Gets Out Alive<\/em>.  Next up on the day\u2019s tick list was Mike\u2019s exciting last-minute send of the burley and powerful <em> Minki, 7b<\/em>, another classic, with comparable Hueco-like features.  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/images\/day61Post1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nMike crushing <em>Minki, 7b<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Following the long and exhausting <em>Minki<\/em> session, we hiked our tired muscles over to the Hidden Boulder at the end of the day for an expected thrashing on the pumpy <em>Human Energy, 7b<\/em>.  No sends to report on this climb yet, however, I surprisingly managed to squeak out a couple of impressive first-time links from the start.  Mike and I are now both at the same highpoint on the climb.  After some good rest, we\u2019re both hoping for the send.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/images\/day61Post2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nApril working <em>Human Energy, 7b<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>Despite some tired muscles, we went to The Fortress the following day.  Paul has had his sights set on trying the crazy compression classic <em>The Vice, 8b<\/em>, a would-be grade-breaker for him (wisely, he decided to rest the previous day while we all thrashed).  After only about 15 minutes or so of him beginning to suss out the moves, he and I both realized that this climb could potentially be a possibility for him.  Psyched, he spent the entire day working it out and by the end was able to do all the moves.  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/images\/day61Post3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nPaul sussing out moves on <em>The Vice, 8b<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, Mike, Raquel and I worked on the adjacent <em>Colin the Librarian, 7a <\/em>, a fun little ditty with small crimps, tight body tension and a big throw at the end.  On our best go\u2019s, Mike and I missed the final throw by mere centimeters!  Grrr.  Too tired.  Need rest.  We\u2019ll be back.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/images\/day61Post4.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nRaquel keeping a tight core on <em>Colin the Librarian, 7a <\/em> <\/p>\n<p><em>posted by arr<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As predicted, Mike and Raquel have settled into the Rocklands groove with ease. The climbing here is very similar to that of Hueco Tanks, of which we are all very much accustomed to. And slowly but surely, the four of us are beginning to crank. Hard. After a couple warm-up days, we\u2019ve now embarked on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}