Seneca rocks spring climbing partners

Hey hey

Mostly trad newbie here looking to get some more Seneca experience this spring. I lead into the 5.10s on sport and have multi pitch experience

I do have a full trad rack (and then some) which I’ve done one lead climb on (monkey face at smith rock, that shit was sweet) but have also done a bunch of lead solo and tope rope solo aid climbing at the local spot (Manchester wall in Richmond va) so I feel pretty good about placements just all the climbing friends do sport, not trad. My Seneca climbing experience so far has been a 3 day trad class 

I’m available some weekends (have all the tentative sport climbing weekend dates for spring already) and have a lot of flexibility mid week too. I’m a 3hr drive so I can drive up the night before or whatever pretty easily

Adrian Swrote:

 just all the climbing friends do sport, not trad. 

Yeah, welcome to Richmond.  There's like 5 people that plug gear seriously in Richmond and I know all of them haha.  Seneca is ok.  I go there every few years to get sandbagged and pull some more choss off the wall.  What gym are you climbing at in Richmond?

Jake Joneswrote:

Yeah, welcome to Richmond.  There's like 5 people that plug gear seriously in Richmond and I know all of them haha.  Seneca is ok.  I go there every few years to get sandbagged and pull some more choss off the wall.  What gym are you climbing at in Richmond?

Lol sounds about right. I climb at peak and bounce between Richmond and midlo locations. Have a punch pass that I will use for triangle when peak gets too stale

Right on.  If you can send either of the cracks at Peak Midlo, then you're in good shape for any 5.11a hand crack in the region.  The one that's on the back wall is stout and fairly long for a gym route.  I plug gear mostly at the New.  I know people like the exposure and the adventurous nature of Seneca, and my buddy Will Alford who's basically sent everything 12a and below on gear in a 300 mile radius of Richmond will tell me I'm nuts, but I trust gear way more at the New.  Seneca is awesome and humbling, but when I push myself on gear, I mainly do it at the New. Plus, my ego takes a hit at Seneca haha.  But I'm totally down for a day of moderates there almost any time.  I mainly have two multi pitch climbing partners- one lives in Va Beach and gets deployed all the time (military) and one lives in Richmond but just had another baby so he's out for the short future.  I'm down when spring rolls around though.  Idk if you're the same way, but I keep it mellow with new partners until I have some mileage with them.  I'm old and brittle haha.  FWIW, I have about 12 years experience, have climbed up to 11c on gear, and have pretty much hit every crag within a 6 hour drive from Richmond.  Let me know if you want to go to TRC one night.  I have guest passes so you won't have to burn a punch.

Jake Joneswrote:

Right on.  If you can send either of the cracks at Peak Midlo, then you're in good shape for any 5.11a hand crack in the region.  The one that's on the back wall is stout and fairly long for a gym route.  I plug gear mostly at the New.  I know people like the exposure and the adventurous nature of Seneca, and my buddy Will Alford who's basically sent everything 12a and below on gear in a 300 mile radius of Richmond will tell me I'm nuts, but I trust gear way more at the New.  Seneca is awesome and humbling, but when I push myself on gear, I mainly do it at the New. Plus, my ego takes a hit at Seneca haha.  But I'm totally down for a day of moderates there almost any time.  I mainly have two multi pitch climbing partners- one lives in Va Beach and gets deployed all the time (military) and one lives in Richmond but just had another baby so he's out for the short future.  I'm down when spring rolls around though.  Idk if you're the same way, but I keep it mellow with new partners until I have some mileage with them.  I'm old and brittle haha.  FWIW, I have about 12 years experience, have climbed up to 11c on gear, and have pretty much hit every crag within a 6 hour drive from Richmond.  Let me know if you want to go to TRC one night.  I have guest passes so you won't have to burn a punch.

Hey man, all sounds good. Down to hit TRC and chat and then hit some stuff during the spring

Jake Joneswrote:

Yeah, welcome to Richmond.  There's like 5 people that plug gear seriously in Richmond and I know all of them haha.  Seneca is ok.  I go there every few years to get sandbagged and pull some more choss off the wall.  What gym are you climbing at in Richmond?

You don’t know me.

 I am generally on the lookout for outdoor partners who are interested in trad. I mostly climb at Trc, but have been at peak more recently. Happy to climb with just about anyone at the gym. Would prefer getting a sense of someone’s ability before committing to an outdoor day. Just let me know if you’re interested.
doug

Doug Emmettwrote:

You don’t know me.

 I am generally on the lookout for outdoor partners who are interested in trad. I mostly climb at Trc, but have been at peak more recently. Happy to climb with just about anyone at the gym. Would prefer getting a sense of someone’s ability before committing to an outdoor day. Just let me know if you’re interested.
doug

Hey Doug, 

I climb at TRC a couple days a week and I'm looking for more climbing partners that are into trad. I have a fair bit of experience plugging gear and multi pitching and I'm looking to get some more miles in this season. I would be down to meet up at the gym sometime. 

Doug Emmettwrote:

You don’t know me.

 I am generally on the lookout for outdoor partners who are interested in trad. I mostly climb at Trc, but have been at peak more recently. Happy to climb with just about anyone at the gym. Would prefer getting a sense of someone’s ability before committing to an outdoor day. Just let me know if you’re interested.
doug

hey Doug, I’m interested… also Wyatt if you don’t mind more of a trad newbie tagging along. Happy to do some gym climbing first of course, pretty flexible schedule, shoot me a message about when y’all usually climb. Can do peak or TRC, have membership at peak (and guest pass) and punch card for TRC

Adrian Swrote:

hey Doug, I’m interested… also Wyatt if you don’t mind more of a trad newbie tagging along. Happy to do some gym climbing first of course, pretty flexible schedule, shoot me a message about when y’all usually climb. Can do peak or TRC, have membership at peak (and guest pass) and punch card for TRC

hey Adrian, I sent you a pm with my phone number

Doug Emmettwrote:

You don’t know me.

Very true!  My comment was tongue-in-cheek, not meant to be taken literally.  But, compared to sport climbers and pebblers, the trad climbers are a miniscule bunch in Richmond.  Let's go climbing!

Jake Joneswrote:

Very true!  My comment was tongue-in-cheek, not meant to be taken literally.  But, compared to sport climbers and pebblers, the trad climbers are a miniscule bunch in Richmond.  Let's go climbing!

Haha yea I picked up on that. I’m looking to get outside this weekend. Might take Friday off. Currently looking for a partner. Anyone in the thread feel free to text me about gym climbing or outdoor interest. 828-four sixx 7 49. 5 seven 

Doug 

Jake Joneswrote:

Right on.  If you can send either of the cracks at Peak Midlo, then you're in good shape for any 5.11a hand crack in the region.  The one that's on the back wall is stout and fairly long for a gym route.  I plug gear mostly at the New.  I know people like the exposure and the adventurous nature of Seneca, and my buddy Will Alford who's basically sent everything 12a and below on gear in a 300 mile radius of Richmond will tell me I'm nuts, but I trust gear way more at the New.  Seneca is awesome and humbling, but when I push myself on gear, I mainly do it at the New. Plus, my ego takes a hit at Seneca haha.  But I'm totally down for a day of moderates there almost any time.  I mainly have two multi pitch climbing partners- one lives in Va Beach and gets deployed all the time (military) and one lives in Richmond but just had another baby so he's out for the short future.  I'm down when spring rolls around though.  Idk if you're the same way, but I keep it mellow with new partners until I have some mileage with them.  I'm old and brittle haha.  FWIW, I have about 12 years experience, have climbed up to 11c on gear, and have pretty much hit every crag within a 6 hour drive from Richmond.  Let me know if you want to go to TRC one night.  I have guest passes so you won't have to burn a punch.

Hmm, not to hijack OPs thread in search of partners, but I don't think the crack in the monolith at Peaks is all that difficult, low 10s at best? Different league than the one on the back wall; I think that'd be the better one to compare to 5.11a.

@ Adrian S send me a message if you're still on the hunt for Seneca partners, always happy to share the commute with 1 more.

No worries on hijacking… weather is getting warmer (well no, not right now) so looking to line up some dates. Either way seems I’ve dragged some of the Richmond trad people into this thread so it’s been productive 

David Jameswrote:

Hmm, not to hijack OPs thread in search of partners, but I don't think the crack in the monolith at Peaks is all that difficult, low 10s at best? Different league than the one on the back wall; I think that'd be the better one to compare to 5.11a.

@ Adrian S send me a message if you're still on the hunt for Seneca partners, always happy to share the commute with 1 more.

I've done both over the years, with and without tape.  You're right- the one on the monolith is 5.10b/c in my estimation, having done a few dozen of the 5.10 cracks in the region multiple times.  The smear/jam move to the fist throw in the constriction alone earns it mid 5.10.  For the sequential cupped hands jams and the strenuousness alone of the one on the back wall, it garners 5.11b/c for me.  Good to see someone else is climbing those things- IMO they're the best way to train irregular cracks for anything in the region and are on par with say... Old Rag granite crack grades.  Good stuff.

Hey all, I'm another trad newbie itching to get into multipitch. I've taken an intro trad class and done a few leads, so I'm reasonably confident but obviously not super experienced. I have my own rack and I sport lead at 5.10, or at least I did when I was in shape. Hit me up if you want to hit up Seneca. 

Also looking for seneca partners, based in DC but willing to meet out there any day Thursday - Sunday. Comfortable following, haven't started leading yet. 

Hit me up - I'll bring endless stoke. 

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