Great Barrington: Big, Big Love

Brayton and I arrived back in Boston on Sunday to meet up with my parents that were at a conference there. My dad headed back to Seattle the next day and my mom and I are staying in New England until the following Saturday, when it is my cousin's graduation. My mom, being the unwaivering supporter of my climbing, graciously agreed to come along to a few of the climbing destinations I wanted to check out. We headed to Great Barrington Monday afternoon, only for me to get stumped by an hour and a half of wandering in the woods trying to find the Speed boulder. That evening I got more precise directions from Brayton and Max Zolotukhin to the boulder and easily found it the next morning. I was psyched to do a problem called Big, Big Love. It is a V8 with some awesome toe and heel trickery. It starts on some good holds where you gain a toe-heel cam and do a big move up to a good but small crimp then do a one arm type move to another crimp before some core dependent lip moves. Overall a classic and amazing problem.