Rand Mountain (aka Marble Zone) and a New Bouldering Zone

A BIG thanks to Rodney Manning for showing me this new group of boulders that he found on Rand Mountain (aka Marble Zone).  Manning had stumbled upon them a couple of months ago while hiking the mountain with his dog and put some effort into establishing some problems on the steep wall of this boulder.  Altogether, there appears to be potential for 12-15 independent boulder problems in this new area and it is only 5-7 minutes hike off of the seasonal road.  Sweet find Ron and thanks for the tour buddy!

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Nine Corner Lake: Cave Wall Classics in the Summer

So, despite all of the bouldering guidebook work and the notheast's rain, heat and relentless humidity...I have been able to sneak out a couple of times to enjoy some pretty decent summer bouldering.  Usually this time of year I "switch gears" from a bouldering focus to do some rope climbing due in part to the poor climbing conditions, but this year with the guidebook, all of my projects for this fall are boulder problems so when I get a chance to get out, I still boulder in attempts to keep up my bouldering fitness.

  A couple of weeks ago I had really good conditions for the end of June and was able to capitalize on it with a quality two hour session on the Cave Wall at Nine Corner Lake.  All of the problems except for Psycho-Killer were problems that I have done a bunch of times in the past, but it was refreshing to get on them again to see how my body/fitness level would hold up.  In the end, I was really happy with the performance.

  Who else is still out there trying to send/crush this summer season?  I would love to hear some comments from everyone...

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