Little Rock City
This post is a couple of days old, from Friday at LRC.
We finally made our way to Little Rock City north of Chattanooga. This unique bouldering area is located on the edge of a golf course surrounded by million dollar homes. The rock is exquisite sandstone, more featured than Horse Pens but nearly perfect in texture. This area holds the highest concentration of hard problems in the South, with classics like The White Face V11, The Law V11, Flyin’ High V11, Dragonslayer V12 and the amazing Shield V12/13. I, of course, am interested in all of these, as well as the slew of more moderate but equally amazing boulders.
Today we met up with Matt Segal who showed us around a bit. I got warmed up on some classic easier lines including a really cool dyno called Spyro Gyro. Check out the video.
We then went up to the Shield and I tried this a bit. It was warm but it felt good in the heat and I am ready to return when things cool off. The rest of the day was spent spotting Ang. and climbing some of the great moderates there. Finally, I decided to try something harder. The White Face V11 is a nice crimping testpiece. Temps had cooled off a bit. It took me a few tries to trust the slopey crux foot, but I topped out just as the sun was setting. That footage is headed to momentumvm. Today we went to check out a newer area near Dayton, TN on a rest day. Great new area in a gorgeous river valley. Tomorrow, we head back to LRC.