Got back from the new sunday night after a sick trip for my birthday with a crew of me con man channa and alex which was an awesome group. We decided to live it up and got a cabin for the weekend even though it was 70 most days and only about 50 at night it was still a blast and a great place to put out bag o wine.
We left late sunday after some financial issues and rolled into the gorge around 2 am after a heinous drive but there was much anticipation in the air. This was our second time to the gorge in just a few weeks and we were psyched to get back to some problems that weve been dreaming of.
Saturday we awoke to perfect temps and sunny weather and decided to head over the the dam. The river was raging from that tropical storm so we headed up the hill to a new spot for the day and found some great stuff. There isnt a huge concentration of boulders there but there is a huge concentration of problems. W warmed up on an awesome v4 called taper point and then went over to this cave that had a bunch of lines. I ended up thrashing the one that goes right up the gut like third go and was psyched because it was solid for its grade at about v5 but played to all my strong suits. Then we hit up the dirty slot another v5 with good friction a rad finish and a hard mantle if the temps were just a tiny bit lower i think we would have sent but the sloper at the top was super greasy so maybe next time.
That night was a blurr and the next day we headed to short creek. We warmed up on a really cool vertical face that had some heinous high steps and a throw to a sloper for a finish. I struggled with a tiny pebble that kept slicing my tips but con man sent like a fuckin pimp good on bro cackawwwwwww! We then went to this overhang that was sick that we both sent pretty quickly and we both agreed the grades were around v5. After that we went to this crazy crimp problem that is probably around v9 and I only have one more move and itll be done I hope to get back to this problem real soon. We ended the day at the problem we had tried a bunch last time. I finished it rather quickly this time minus the topout cause it was rediculously dirty and the fall might render both me and connelly dude but i digress.
School is insane graduating soon and I hope I am able to graduate. Next week were heading south to hang out with my dad for thanksgiving which should be fun. Were gonna hit up the new again to get back at that hard short creek problem. Were also gonna hit up some north carolina spot and on the way back were gonna go to the red river gorge to check out the cove a huge roof with a ton of problems, one in particular called kryptonite a v7 that clims some amazing edges and pinches so Im psyched sending temps are here. Check out this first cut of the new river footage and also were gonna have some gekocirkus team shirts soon to so get em while their hot.
Cakawwww!
New River gorge from corey perez on Vimeo.
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