Hayden's Rock Scaling: Elevenmile

On Saturday, Ander and myself met up with Bryon, Justin, and Chris at Elevenmile Canyon. The plan was for Justin to quickly do Anger Management, for Ander and I to send the arete sport climb Spew, and to put up a new line on the backside of the spray boulder before continuing to the Murray blocs, then Chill Style, and finally off to Scalius. However the conditions decided to change our objectives. Byron and Justin camped the previous night in the canyon and had already found out that Chill Style was covered in ice. It also turned out to be far to warm for Justin's project and Ander and I never ended up tying into a rope. However, the line on the backside of the Spray boulder turned out to be a very good problem and we had a great morning working it. Justin quickly sent, followed by myself a few goes later. Ander and Chris both came very close, each taking some fun but scary falls from the crux throw. We then went in search of Scalius but after an hour or so of driving around on backroads trying to get to the boulders, we decided that the snow was not going to allow climbing there. We hurried back to Elevenmile Canyon and spent the rest of the day on problems at the Murray blocs. The main problems were all dripping wet but there were three very fun climbs that were dry. Ander, Justin, and myself all sent an amazing compression / body position problem that was very reminiscent of Yosemite and Squamish climbing and then Justin and I sent two other sweet problems on an adjacent block. Check Justin's blog for media on these climbs.