{"id":2876,"date":"2019-07-17T19:13:51","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T19:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/websterart.com\/wordpress\/?p=2876"},"modified":"2019-07-17T19:13:51","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T19:13:51","slug":"city-of-rocks-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websterart.com\/wordpress\/2019\/07\/city-of-rocks-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Rocks 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alex, Kristi, Chris J. and Pam all spent some time at the City of Rocks with me over the last two weeks. I got there early and sketched for a couple days.<\/p>\n

I did three pen sketches and two oils. We did a lot of the usual stuff on Elephant rock and the Breadloaves. My four days with Pam were the best as we are both hard core climbers, dawn to dusk.<\/p>\n

Alex did do a hard lead on Crack of Doom 11c. I couldn’t get past the boulder move. I also got up Mystery Bolter with one hang. That thing is so intimidating. Those run outs are terrifying, yet the climbing is fine and quite sticky. You just have to stick to the main line, even left a little, as you pass the second to last bolt. Past the last bolt it’s dead easy right up to the anchor. We were surprised to find we could rap off with a 60 meter.<\/p>\n

My hardest lead was Aspen Leaf 10a at the upper west breadloaves. I hung all over it, blew all the delicate stem moves. What’s weird is I think I led it clean with Julia ten years ago. Because of my constantly changing partners I never got on some of the harder trad lines like bloody fingers and private idaho. Still, two weeks of climbing in the city may have given me a good start on the rest of the summer at index.<\/p>\n