Ascents in Oklahoma by CJ Albrecht

This was a cool route. Down low you had to lie-back a flack and then move to the left for some face moves. The first face move had a great 2 inch ledge to grab but after that it was all sharp micro crimps. I fell twice on this route. It was my last route of the weekend, I was just too tired and pumped.

We set top rope up on this route as we rapped down from New Number 8. This route has serious ground fall potential beause after about 20 feet up there is no protection to be found until you get to the anchors.

This was the last route of the day. I was pretty pumped and I just couldn't seem to keep my feet on the wall. You would have to have a large sac to lead this route, 'cause it only has 2 bolts and if you fall anywhere you're going to hit the ground.

This route was very hairy at the bottom. It went straight up a wall with these 3 very small cracks spaced about 9 feet away from each other. You had to make face moves up to each crack holding on to nearly nothing. Once you got past those cracks it wasn't that bad but you had to climb through a lot of slippery lichen. The rappel was awsome off this route. We rapped off of Leage of Doom with double ropes and free hung all the way down to the first rap anchors of L.O.D. When you get to those anchors you are still about 4 feet away from the wall and have to swing in. Pulling the rope down was more work than I like to put into it. It felt like I was hauling a 300 pound haulbag up the wall.

This was an awsome route with a delicate move to the left to the anchors and another delicate move back to the right to start the second pitch. We took a 5.8 (New Number 8) variation for the second pitch instead of finishing with the 5.7 second pitch.

This was an awsome test piece 5.8 route.

I went hiking with my wife and free climbed this unknown route 'cause I didn't take a rope or any gear.

Great crack with one face move that was at least 10. (Trad)

This route had eveything; hand-jams, arm cam, lie-backs, face climbing, and a cheminy. We did a variation to this route at the start cause the main start hold was a loose boulder, so we went strait up instead of traversing the start. We thought the variation was at least a 5.10 start because it took a real sketchy move with a bone breaking fall. (Trad)

This route had "NO" feet at all. I only got 2/3 of the way up and had to pull off. (Sport)

This route has 3 overhangs, I got to the last one and had to back off cause I could not pull it. Hard route but real cool.

This was the first crack climb I have done. Sweet! (Trad)

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