Ascents of Socoa

Unfortunately Injured my pinky but made all the moves. Cruxy boulder problem at the bulge

Much more athletic than the other routes. The crux takes some courage and power, barely made it... #lastrouteoftheday

Probably one of my most stressful climbing experiences in recent history. My belayer was first struggling with the 'biner/GriGri (in hindsight a sign of things to come!) then short-roped during the crux sequence and then asked "do you want more slack at the anchor?" despite me not being at the anchor, nor signalling I was at the anchor. Finally, I pulled over the bulge near the top and heard something I construed as "off belay" (I later found he was saying "out of sight", but I couldn't really hear due to said bulge), I then preceded to climb (although I thought was soloing) to the anchor while shouting lots of profanities. Quite the experience!

Came down from my first incredibly stressful attempt, pulled the rope and went straight up for another crack. Think I was still pretty pumped (more from stress than climbing intensity) and still fell at the crux. Oh well some kind of good conditioning I guess.