B3bouldering.com » Clear Creek Canyon http://www.b3bouldering.com Jamie Emerson Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:32:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Clear Creek Canyon http://www.b3bouldering.com/2010/01/19/clear-creek-canyon/ http://www.b3bouldering.com/2010/01/19/clear-creek-canyon/#comments Tue, 19 Jan 2010 04:05:56 +0000 B3 http://www.b3bouldering.com/?p=3445 Saturday was a gorgeous day and I went to Stanley Kubrick V11, at the 268 Boulders in Clear Creek Canyon. Clear Creek has an urban feel, with tunnel barreling buses bearing loads of tourists up to the casinos at Blackhawk. Stanley Kubrick was put up by Joel Gilmore, and it features some nice powerful campusing to a tricky and committing mantel. The crew was a good one. Kubrick is one of the first problems to dry out in the Front Range and as the snow continues to linger it was an obvious choice. I have tried this problem sporadically since I first moved here but I never had the pads or the courage to finish it off. I came back with renewed focus. I backed off the top several times but finally figured out a good sequence, and gave it a go from the start. The challenge now lay in turning my mind off and letting my body execute. I quickly found myself in a good position, with my toe on the edge of the lip and my weight over my foot, but still fought hard to keep the negative thoughts at bay. I turned them off with one confident reach to a positive jug and scampered up to the top. It’s a great feeling to cross a problem off of a ticklist I wrote 7 years ago. Here are some pictures.

ccc.sk.emerson1Stanley Kubrick photo:Jrt Jaeger

ccc.sk.emerson3A tenuous mantel photo:Jrt Jaeger

IMG_2449 Ryan Silven

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