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\nThat Hi-Pro Glow is a super fun Hueco climb in our opinion. April starts it out with two hands matched and a left heel on the heinous sloper starting hold. The first several moves are hard as you work your way around a blunt arete. If you don’t keep your core tight and you blow a foot it drains all your energy just trying to get back in control. Most people just fall off. If you get established around the arete there are a few options but most people quickly pop to a sloper and…whew…”the hard climbing is over…” not really….<\/p>\n
April quickly works out her beta for getting to the final sloper and then starts giving it some sending goes. One go, two goes, three goes…more and more goes – climbing it smooth around the arete, but keeps falling at the big pop to the sloper – too pumped to get the height she needs to grab it.<\/p>\n
The tour is about wrapping it up and getting ready to move on to the next area. Ok, last try. Two hands and a heel on the slopey start, holding the tension as she works around the arete, left hand on a shelf and right hand on a good pinchy sidepull – wing span at full extension, right foot pushes and POP….right hand smacks the sloper! YES – this problem is in the bag for April….um, we think. There’s still a decent amount of climbing to get to the top of the boulder….kinda highball….but hey – it’s only V0ish at this point.<\/p>\n
April is working her way up, we’re all cheering, she’s pulling on jugs. As I’m watching April through the video camera eye piece, I see she has one last move to go to the lip…to a huge honking big as a bucket jug – wait a second – she looks pumped as hell. But how could anyone possibly fall from there? – I’m thinking. As my brain is computing the answer to that question, my finger switched the camera off and I went into emergency spotting mode. (Brain processing next thought): Well at least she’s falling feet-first….hmm, are there pads under her?<\/p>\n
April’s highball crash landing placed her perfectly on the pads and in the arms of a spotter (who just happened to be standing in the right place at the right time – THANK YOU DAN FROM L.A.) Ahhh, the adventures of bouldering. She’ll be seeing you next time – you Hi-Pro Glow (with a little more juice, let’s hope).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It was January of this year when we first went to the boulder problem “That Hi-Pro Glow,” V6 at Hueco Tanks. April was psyched because the moves seemed do-able with a little bit of work. Unfortunately, 11 months went by until we got around to re-visiting the problem (so many choices when you’ve got over […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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\/66"}],"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=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}