Follow my friends and me as we continually track new bouldering areas in the Adirondack State Park as well as visit top notch bouldering areas all over the northeast
Here are the cimbing hold sets that I carved this year for Element Climbing. The company owner has put a hault on any new climbing hold sets for the remainder of the calender year so they can focus on mass producing holds to fulfill large orders. Element Climbing is on the top of the climbing hold game and it has been an honor working with them thus far.
I am anxious for the new year and the opportunity to continue shaping for Element Climbing.
(Note: I took the liberty of pre-drilling my sets of the holds so I can use them as screw on holds if needed on my home wall...only the hydrogen sets are screw on sets as sold by Element Climbing)
Banta and I left Johnstown at 6:30am on Sunday morning to ensure that we would be getting in a full day of climbing at the Snowy Mountain Boulders. As we transferred his gear into my jeep for the 1.5 hr carpool, it was still pouring rain but we opted to stick to our gam plan and give Snowy Mtn. a shot.
As we got further and further north, the rain was letting up and the sun was trying its' best to break through the clouds...were we going to finally catch a break and get some decent climbing conditions this fall?
We got to the trailhead at 8:00am, the rain had stopped but everything was still soaked. Our optimism was high because we have personally seen the boulders at Snowy dry up in a matter of hours with the right combination of sun and wind. As we approached the boulders, they were still a bit saturated but it was evident that it was going to be climable really soon...Sully was en route as well and not far behind us.
When we finally get some decent fall conditions, this is what happens.
