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Los Barrachos del Mascun

Moving on to more tangible information, and comprehensible things… I will describe some routes and projects. Random accomplishments and looming goals will fill the blank space to follow.

Los Barrachos del Mascun. 9a rock climb supposedly. I have been climbing in the route with the master himself, Daniel Andrada (danimal, dandroidada, and other silly a.k.a.’s) who bolted the thing in 2005. It’s a roof, a huge one, and it’s quite cool to say the least. Starting with some cool, long moves on a skirt type piece of the cave, it leads out the white expanse, rock climbed only with more big moves. It’s very bouldery and power resistant, and one must breathe, and shake out the arms to clip the chains. It’s very height dependent, and if you are a little taller than me, you will be happy in the two cruxes of the climb. Dani and I rotated in 360 spins over and over, going crazy; speaking in poor Spanish, trying to find the right beta for what seemed an eternity. As the conditions sucked, we were always just trying to improve our sequence, and as it seemed wrong, yet to no avail, we would spin around more, looking for the right path. Finally, after the humidity (actually two hours from the weather change, as soon as the wind came, my wind, and my magical wind) I had a good run finally. On my 15th try, with much pessimism (I was not thinking I was about to send, yet I had an inkling) I did the route 1st try that day. Last words? It’s cabron! 

Onsighting, I have been doing that too! I was having fun climbing many jungles of Tufas, getting really sweaty and pumped, lost, recovered, the usual. And I was fighting too, sometimes even cruising and crushing things too. Uh, yeah. Poorly organized sentence one might say but it has value. Yeah, like all the extremes you know. Well, I did maybe 10 or 12 13c routes by now, and they were all fantastic and as well maybe 3 13d routes, but hard ones. Yup, that’s it, but, what’s missing? All the God damn projects! 



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