Brachiation V0
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| Type: | Boulder, 20 feet |
| Consensus: | V0 [details] |
| FA: | Paul Horak |
| New Route: | Yes |
| Season: | all |
| Submitted By: | docsavage on Jan 23, 2012 |
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BETA PHOTO: Brachiation - release your inner primate ...
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Description Back when dinosaurs ruled the Earth, it was possible to drive all the way up into Embudo Canyon. Here most of the local bouldering was done - dozens of problems & short routes, maybe hundreds. Brachiation is one. The name refers to a form of arboreal locomotion in which primates swing from tree limb to tree limb using only their arms, which is how this boulder problem goes in basically two moves: 1) face out & hook lip with toes, 2) swing around & mantel.
Location Just uphill from Free Cap'n.
Protection This is a very committing problem. Pads & spotters are a must. Once grasping the lip there is little choice but to finish ...
BETA PHOTO: Brachiation - #2
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By docsavage
From: Albuquerque, NM
Feb 9, 2012
| An early ascent ...
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By thomas ellis
From: abq
Feb 19, 2012
| That ia awsome. If you have more foothills footage please send me a link. For someone like myself who loves sandia bouldering this is genuinely golden material. |
By Eric Whitbeck
Feb 20, 2012
| Come on..bouldering in the Sandias? Really? There is no bouldering out there. |
By docsavage
From: Albuquerque, NM
Mar 3, 2012
| thomas - see Upper Fat City & the Manatee at the U-Mound ... |
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