During a trip to Boulder for about 3.5 weeks, Dan did some amazing hard lines. He considered it a breakthrough trip. Unfortunately something came up and he had to head home about a week early, but the trip was still very encouraging.
He stated that he had a fairly unproductive first week, getting acclimatized and dealing with really poor conditions, but by the end of the second week he figured out that night sessions were the method and got to work.
I managed to tick off:
Jade V14/15
Friday the 13th V10
Two Ton Tongue V10/11 (Sorta flashed, did it first try from what I thought were the starting holds, then did it again first try from the actual start a couple moves lower)
Hi Fi V11
Secret Splendor V12
European Human Being V12
The Lockness Monster V12
"All these except Jade I managed to do really pretty quickly, and that really was the coolest part. Before march of last year, I'd never climbed harder than V10 outside, and now I was finding that I could pretty easily do all the moves, on basically everything we tried, pretty quickly and easily in isoltion. I was also really close on Nothin but Sunshine V13, Top Notch V13 and Don't Get Too Greedy V13, but we didn't have the chance to go up and finish them off. Unfortunately, we had very little media from this trip as all I was armed with was a little point and click cannon digital camera, and most of what we were doing was at night in very low light. I hope in the near future as temperatures cool down to start trying to take some higher quality videos for dpm, but that will be dependent on my access to a reasonable camera, which I'm working on."
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