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the dirtbag has arrived!

Jessica Evans

Posted on January 12, 2006

so i’ve made it to the obed. yesterday was another driving day, and i made it to wartburg, tennessee just after sundown.i opened up my laptop to look at the directions that i had been able to find online the night before while parked outside a hotel to tap into wireless. i wasn’t able to get to the dr topo site to get the obed guide that i used last year when we camped here. i drove up and down the highway, and all over wartburg (a very small town) looking for something that resembled any of the sets of directions i had with me. i’ve really got to make an effort not to arrive in new places with crappy directions after dark. deciding…

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farewell to horsepens

Jessica Evans

Posted on January 11, 2006

well. this place has been my home for three weeks. it doesn’t seem like it’s been that long since i drove here late at night after a hellish drive through georgia. those four days on my own were quite an experience, but i will treasure the memories from the two and a half weeks that i had friends visiting. to keep up the traditions tonight, i skipped my shower, ate my weight in tuna pasta salad, (that tradition appears to be specifically mine), got slapped down in a night bouldering session and now i’m burning off the last of the wood. this campsite seems pretty big now just for one person, and the couch by the fire is luxurious. tomorrow i’m packing up and…

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missing damian

Jessica Evans

Posted on January 7, 2006

damian left today. so did paul and josie-anne… jay is here now, so i’m still covered as far as having people i know and trust to climb with. the temperatures have dropped though, so i got a bonus rest day today due to the cold.the way i see it, i didn’t drive for 20 hours to climb when i can’t feel my hands. even if the friction is amazing, i don’t care. i didn’t really need to climb anyway, because of a really cool thing that happened yesterday… last week i picked a line out that i really liked. it looked challenging enough, but i could see the moves and believed i was capable of them. i took damian by to see it, this…

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she’s got a project

Jessica Evans

Posted on January 2, 2006

she has a project! there’s a problem here that i’ve fallen in love with. it’s mulletino, strangely enough it’s just around the corner and on the same boulder as last year’s project – the lowdown.i tried mulletino last year but could only do the first few moves. this year i tried it with some boys, all of whom were much taller than me, and i couldn’t even get to the crux. sit start with hands in crack/ledge directly above in roof. throw a right heel hook also into the crack further down the roof where it’s a bit bigger and the crack splits into a ledge. from there, work hand over hand down the crack/ledge until into place to reach a left hand very…

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