Training Journal: 3/27/23 – 4/3/23

Northern Flatirons

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Monday

Rest!

Tuesday

Bouldering @ Movement, 1 hr

Spin Bike, 1hr

Wednesday

Bouldering @ Movement, 1 hr

Spin Bike, 1hr

Thursday

Green Mountain

Quick bop

Friday

Bouldering @ Movement, 2 hours

Better than the session before.

Spin Bike, 1hr

Saturday

Climbing @ Movement

On a rope even. Having been beaten to a pulp from my bouldering session yesterday, I didn’t have too many goals, but after a warmup on a 9, and embarrassing myself on the hand crack, I managed to scratch up a few 12-‘s fairly confidently. Some more work on the crack to try to remember how to climb that, and then we finished the session.

Green Mountain

A proper fart-about. Took a reasonably trail-free route to the base of the ridge just to the south of The Regency, featuring a good overlook of most of the flatirons you can see from the south. Observe,

Northern Flatirons
Northern Flatirons

I’ll have to come back yet again with a good camera, and better lighting. Really enjoyed this view.

Afterwards, I kept on wandering up the ridge that turns into essentially the north ridge of Hillbilly Rock. I dropped down a bit here rather than hugging the ridge, and bumped into some Royals boulders and some stashed pads, but then surprisingly found some fresh-enough tracks heading towards an area I’ve never been to, so I decided to follow.

This led somewhat uphill, but downslope from where I usually go up. Finding a new line in the flatirons is certainly a rarity for me. Tons of fun navigating the boulders, as the path weaved me towards the Ameboid and the Hourglass – it’s the next generation’s Satellites bouldering area back there. I enjoyed finding passageways much like the Tangen Tunnel route as I made my way up across Schmoe’s Nose and into terrain I’m more familiar with. From there, it was a quick bop from the main ridge to the summit of Green Mountain. Good times.

Bear Peak and South Boulder Peak from the top of the Hourglass
Bear Peak and South Boulder Peak from the top of the Hourglass
Summit Cat
Summit Cat

Sunday

Spin, 1hr

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