Thursday, February 19, 2009

Elevenmile

Yesterday Byron and I went up to Elevenmile with the intent on exploring a bit.  The warm weather has not allowed the normal ice bridges over the river to form and therefore changed our plans.  We went up this not so promising hillside and ended up finding a number of reasonable blocks.  The rock quality varied from good quality to normal crumbly splatte rock.  I did find one particularly nice line up a swooping wall that changed angles from 45 to about 15 degrees.  The block is about 12 feet tall and climbs on small incuts.  It probably clocks in somewhere in the V10 range.  After telling Byron about it, we tried to head back only to get disoriented.  We walked in circles for a while but never located it again.  I plan on returning soon to climb on this guy, hopefully with better luck finding it.