Recently I have not been able to get out to all the main Seattle climbing areas due to class, weather and other time restrictions/excuses. This doesn't mean that I haven't been climbing though. Olympia has a smattering of climbing areas all within an 1 hour drive and luckily enough I visited a few of them all within a couple of days. The first was the Tenino Quarry on the open day, Wednsday.
Duke on Chip Off the Ole Flake 11b, Nate on Confuisous 11b
This is awesome sandstone sport cliombing on ledges and crimps that offer some good practice on 5.11 for Smith-esc testpieces at other crags.
Next was a mis-adventure to a new bouldering area, the Arrowheads, off of Summit Lake. I ,ah, didn't study the google map quite as intently as I should of and ended up passing the turnoff, sorry Quinn! But after a 45 minute hike we came back to the Arrowhead boulder proper and put up some really fun V2-V3 lines utilizing a lot of heel-hook cranks. I also can't wait to visit the actual boulders and I'm finally getting closer to finishing off the new edition with a tour of Chase's stuff Sunday.
Quin on True Arrow V2 & Narrow Arrow V2 -very similar to the fin in Levy-
Saturday was blazing hot yet I finally managed a trip out to Mineral with Nathan. The hike was long and hot and the flies were swarming but the day got better as it went. The crag is cool sandstone huecos and runnels which produce a lot of kneebars and rest and jugs! Nate sent his project and then I followed by ripping the lip off of a jug and took a nice 16' whip! I also managed a second ascent of Sandy Slap a cool compresiony 11+ and will return to send the half dozen lines left.
