By Michael Townsand Nov 8, 2006
| I've bouldered many times at Cuevas as we called it since the mid nineties, and my friends and I finished several decent problems, (though nothing past about V2, since we were beginning). I haven't climbed in many years, but now I'm getting back into it, so I'd like to contribute some of the problems we did to your section here. I tripped out when I saw the Flea Protein post! Javier Placencia and I named that problem when we were bouldering there with Espo and Ploss in '99 or so. Sorry for the history lesson ,LOL, but if anyone was wondering... Flea protein is a strange name, but it came about from me telling Javier about an army project I read about where they were using protein from flea legs to try to produce high-tech shock absorber/jumping devices for the military. Jav liked the term so much, he gave it to this climb and I guess it stuck. There is a boulder on the northwest side of Cuevas we called Blood Boulder because one of the problems (about V2 to 3) has a super sharp flake hidden in a pocket which is impossible to see until you get cut by it. There are 2 other problems we did on this boulder. There are several other problems I'd like to post as well. |