I went bouldering in Bishop by myself, for 3 weeks

in the last episode I went to Bishop for the first time just for the weekend but perhaps unsurprisingly I fell in love I love so as soon as I could I packed up the truck and went back there only this time I was solo and I ended up staying for 3 weeks psych was high to say the least so this episode is going to be all about what I learned there and it was a lot I spent a lot of time by myself I was Solo in the truck 24/7 except for when friends came to visit on the weekend so I had a lot of time to think and be cold very cold all the time but first things first I had to get there and the drive from Vegas to Bishop was harrowing it is raining SL snowing going over the path insanely slow steep grades Sharp curve next 3 miles well hopefully I will be out of this soon I wow that was a big puddle oh my okay I should get off the phone and drive you can see this but I'm like so close to the wheel cuz the visibility is so godamn bad all of my back muscles have from sitting like this for so long but got to be safe and now I go to look out for pedals okay bye it's kind of hard to see in the video but it was bad bad fortunately after many painful hours I made it if you're new here hi I am an average rock climber who's trying to prioritize climbing for the year of 2024 and kind of share what happens along the way so if you like this insane gorgeousness and you want to see more of this hit subscribe opening the Carden and seeing this is just pretty sick all I wanted to do the first week was try everything I figured it was good to get used to the style and hopefully get some quick sends under my belt not this climb but definitely this one I call myself a slab climber and I was super nervous about flashing this vzer [Music] good flash thank you so I did that I did the hunk which you kind of saw in the intro but here's the Crux it is a high high wall V2 like the length of a short route with serious consequences if you fall kind of tall and of all the sandbagged twos that I did at the milks probably the [Music] hardest from here it's easier you just have to keep it together for a while next wimes the first move on this climb was so hard for me ell you are tripping I pulled on one move in and flashed to the top but it took me two sessions to put it all together mostly because I could only do the first move maybe one in every 10 goes why well the first move is kind of a power move and the rest of the climb is like tacky slab that tracks perfectly with the things that I'm good at and not so good at this climb was also notable cuz I made a major mistake I tried it on my second day so my skin wasn't adapted to the sharp Granite yet and the first move on this climb is kind of crimping these sharp crystals basically I got blood blisters in my tips that took weeks to come out and Falls like this probably didn't help it's so slippery I was glad to get the send but I had no idea what I'd gotten myself into you know your skin is bad when doing this hurts also this Step Up was a little spicy alone I'm glad my foot stuck and in contrast to what I considered a super hard V4 there was this reasonable V5 or at least I thought it was reasonable this is Larry baret and it gets a flutter in the guide book which means it's supposed to be a bit scary [Music] I agree okay come I'm ready for them to do that come on come on yeah you're on it now I just want to pause here for a second and show you this I got you I'm just going to interject here and make it very clear that I'm including this for context only this guy is a much stronger climber than me he just sent High Plaines drifter in a session before getting on this keep free yeah good put your belly that was he what the okay back to me I was expecting a battle that guy is strong but this is what happened yeah yeah yeah you're very nice good it's a bomber foot come on come on haly yeah very good nice yes good footwork great hell yeah nice sick good work that was awesome yeah it just wasn't that hard and yet I've tried so many v4s and v5s at the milks at this point that are really hard yes come on come on nice you're right there you're right there come on so good so this was clue number one to the biggest thing I learned in Bishop put that in your pocket look at those mounties it got below 20° F overnight for a couple of nights at the milks so I headed to the SS and I had my eye on one particular climb that climb is called french press and it is a V6 slab I was really pyck to try it because hard slabs are kind of hard to come across here was my flash go I stay up here cuz it's warmer yeah yeah nice come on go you got it the internet told me that establishing was the cruxs of the climb so I was like huh I flashed the cracks of a six probably not I gave it a few more goes changed my shoes and then this happened [Music] do yeah come on come on come on let's Goot got is there anything up there uh maybe you go further left nothing with that so I sent the climb that I came to the sads for in under half an hour slab screamer by far my fastest V6 ever and the only one that's been pure slab clue number two now I live in Vegas and red rock is hardly the slab capital of America so when I travel to areas that do have slab and Technical climbing I seek those climbs out because they're fun at least for me I realize not everybody shares the sentiment so after French Press I did this thing called finger painting which had some of the most heinous holds I think I've ever touched this is the left hand basically all index it's like very small but managed to put that one down kind of quickly too now I want to see what I didn't do this V4 called the Fang note the uh nonvertical angle I spent another day at the sads because it was still pretty cold up at the milks overnight which I generally wasn't super stoked about except for this bishop has some pretty good bakeries and I was kind of on fresh food rations camping up at the milks got the goods German seven green original sheep header cuz obviously not tried this before but I am excited I freaking love bread look at this this this is all bread there's already like eight kinds of bread in here and now I have three more not mad about it anybody ever tries to tell you that I don't make a mean sandwich they are unequivocally wrong in other news remember wimes with that sharp first move blood listers okay back to the sets another day another zero starred heinous vert climb this is called you got to be kidding me uh it's a V5 and the guy book description says only if you're really desperate I guess that's [Music] me I actually really enjoyed this climb it was super technical and balancy my favorite shout out to this guy though I've been at the body M for like 5 days straight is your skin just like horrendous uh it's like pretty worn down but I've been climbing with two of my friends that climb viciously harder than me oh that's even worse for this game yeah your s now v4s a low V CL we'll come back to this later next on the list of vertical technical climbs at the sads we have this slun left it gets a V7 in the book but that's eliminating a huge foot I kind of tried it with and without the foot but I only sent it with the foot on which makes it about V5 I would love to come back back and do slunk the line which goes to the right it's a v9 and definitely on my list of climbs to try in the future here I have done all of the hard Parts but fortunately I could repeat it without the pun unfortunately I still couldn't send the Fang here's my best go which to be fair was at the end of the day again I'm so slow at climbing this angle which I think is part of why I find it so hard so slow it's looking for where to place this heel toe C I think I found it mama had to tape the front of her ankles for tow hooking cuz it was getting so scraped up such a boulder horizontal roof climing here's what was supposed to happen there that drop- down move is definitely the last hard move the toop hat is just kind of pumpy so I'd like to think that I was close honestly not sending a V4 after trying it for 2 days even at the end of the the day kind of sucked Sweet Home hey after another night at the pit it was back to the milks there's a cow look at him oh in a quick skin update still blood blisters still from wire but I was stoked to be back at the milks I mean look at this the happies and the sads just can't compete at least not in my opinion this is a V1 slab called five and dime that I warmed up on and it was just so nice love the milks we're now coming to the end of the second week of my trip I was still kind of trying to do a bunch of stuff especially after sending French Press like this very aesthetic V3 called the melat I biffed the flash on this by just kind of missing the Moon move but did it second [Music] go but I flashed a couple of other threes and I think I did a four and I at least tried some fives and that brings us to I was going to show you week three now but this video is getting really long so that's going to be in the next episode in it I project my first B8 work on an anti-style V5 and talk about the biggest thing that I learned in Bishop that I've kind of been teasing this whole video oh and I climb with my coach Jesse in person for the first time so don't forget to subscribe and I'll see you then

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Length: 16min 49sec (1009 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 23 2024