FA of 8a, Projects, and the Process || Cold House Media Vlog 54

When I first started bolting I thought that bolting was going to be the hardest part. I've realized that the cleaning is definitely the hardest part. Bolting is the fun easy part because you get to see the line and everything but then you have to go back and clean and scrub and remove loose rocks and some routes are fast to clean but some are pretty dirty because it's a rock and it's never been climbed or touched. We went back to the pra and took time to remove some rocks we removed some little rocks by hand and bigger rocks with a big bag because it's safest and that way we're able to finally climb the lines the first line being Afternoon Delight we called it that way because after we did the first ascent there was a huge storm with hail and lightning that made us escape from the Prow and hide in a little shelter we decided to leave the Prow and the following day we went back to the Shady Wall because we have a lot of routes to climb there. First line I bolted in the Shady Wall is in the middle of this one. I decided to call it Lily in tribute to my friend Aurélie who brought a lot of gear for us in Peru. This route has good holes, cool features, big moves and it's 25 meters long. We're back on the Shady Wall warming up, going to try some new routes, some new lines, some projects that we left here last time, it's going to be a good day, as long as there's no crazy lightning, it'll still be good if there is. Potato head that we showed in the previous vlog, Josh noticed there could be a direct start so he bolted it and we started to work the moves Working a route that has never been climbed is very different from working a route that has been climbed. There's a lot of things that need to be cleaned still and figured out. It's just a process that involves a lot of time and it's very different from trying to search for the chalked holds and the black rubber marks on the wall from the previous climbers. So yeah, there's a lot of stopping and going and stopping and taking and just brushing little feet that you didn't brush when you first cleaned because you didn't think you were going to use that foot. up here watching Coco climb looking at the whole cliff there's a bunch of llamas walking around me and I'm pooping. On the shady wall Coco bolted three lines just below it and one of them which was his project for a few days is the mule and the unicorn. Chilly day at the cliff but you know what it is so nice to have Italian espresso maker here. Charlotte's having some leftover pasta from last night and her thermos of tea. It's pretty easy to stay comfortable here though cuz it's really fun all new routes new holds new moves Charlotte just sent a new line we don't know the name of but it's maybe seven C plus or something we are hiking out in the hail storm again and we have our friends with the llamas mixed with some sheep finally bouldering not that the sport climbing hasn't been good it's been really good but now we're gonna go check out some boulders luckily there was an area only six kilometers away from our house and we were truly impressed by the amount and the sizes of the boulders it's a cool trail I like the trail so we just spent a day walking around exploring yeah there's another edge higher left hand it's actually cool we cleaned more than we climbed because we were so excited about all this rock and we left a couple projects but we also sent one route that we called Deja Vu because it looks a lot like White Castle, a boulder that Josh fell in Serbia. You can see we're having quite a great time here in Pitu Marka. We're also trying a new sound and voiceover system so you should let us know if you like this or not. It's pretty whatever but it's easy over morning coffee we don't have to take the camera out. But what's next Charlotte next um more climbing we have some projects left routes and boulders more bolting because there's still so much rock and cool stuff that we want to bolt and climb and more bolts thanks to Petzl see you next week and until then you can follow us on our website worldletstravel.com on our Epic TV Cold House Media channel and on all the social media all the social media except twitter