Today I will be climbing at Stoney Point for the first time and I am super excited.
Let's go!
Stoney Point is located in west LA.
It takes me a long time to drive there, but fortunately there are a lot of podcasts, like
"The power company podcast" and "Basecamp" to keep the stoke high.
That looks like Stoney Point to me, guys, and there are parking on the streets.
After all these years, I am finally here, Stoney Point Park, and I will be climbing with a
very special friend today, rockentry, yeaaaaaaa. We're back. Yes!
Let's do it.
We warmed up at a boulder called Slant Rock near the entrance.
I was a bit rusty on topping out since I hadn't had the chance to climb outdoors for a while.
OK, not very graceful, haha, but it works.
There are two more routes on the right side, which are very easy.
There's a slab on the other side of Slant Rock.
It's also very easy but requires precise footwork since the footholds here are generally
a lot smaller than the footholds in the gym.
After warming up, we moved to "Boulder 1."
The route I tried is called Vivarin.
The holds are all big and nice but the height and the unfamiliarity makes it slightly mentally
challenging.
Woo!
Yes!
Since I tend to climb conservatively on new highball climbs, and I want to finish as many
routes as I can.
I decided to move to a climb called Pump Traverse nearby.
Initially I couldn't figure out the start, but I got help from a nice old gentlemen and
was able to do it afterwards.
Later on I heard that this old gentlemen could potentially be one of the OGs who developed
Stoney Point in mid 90s, and I was like, that's pretty cool.
By the way, you can use the First Ascent App to conveniently locate all the climbs. Be
sure to check out the video description for more details.
I tried another climb on the back side of the same rock and wasn't able to do it after
a few tries, and finally rockentry decided to give me some beta.
To get closer to the top, maybe bring your left foot up higher here, here, so you have
this really good spot, so pretty much if you bring your foot higher, you get closer to
the top.
There you go. And put pressure. We want to put pressure on that left foot.
So yeah, I made the classic mistake of missing footholds because there isn't a label for
the foothold like the gym.
Ha!
Yeah!
My boy!
After I had enough fun for myself, it's time to check out rockentry's project "Hot
Tuna."
Here's his best attempt of the day.
Come on.
Yeah!
Come on!
Come on, dude.
Come on, man.
Come on. Come on.
Come on. Get it. come on.
Come on.
Ohhhhhhh.
Almost two years on this thing, two years!
I was not able to climb all the way to the crux, but I gave the crux a few tries just
to have an idea how it feels like.
Thank you so much, rockentry, for showing me around Stoney Point.
Ya, and thanks Geek Climber for coming out all the way from San Diego, man.
That's awesome.
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Bye!