I have a recurring dream where I find a great new bouldering area. The boulders are always amazing with stellar lines and great concentration. It's always really realistic, near places I know in real life. Then I wake to the crushing realization that it was all a dream. This happens way more often than I am comfortable with.
Right now I am really hoping I am not about to wake up. Today myself and Andrew Linegar checked out an area that we were told might have some potential for mainly easy problems on really nice rock. What we found was better than I could have hoped.
At Blackhead, just a 10 minute drive from downtown St. John's, we parked the car and immediately started scoping lines on perfect sandstone. We were running around like kids in a candy store from sea wall to sea wall. This area has everything, roofs, highballs, free standing boulders, easy problems, hard problems and one of the most amazing views of any climbing area I've ever been.
Today was mainly just scouting and we only climbed for about an hour but put up 10 really nice problems from V0 to V3. We are heading back tomorrow with more people and more pads to get on the harder and higher stuff. Also tomorrow I'll bring a camera so I can let the area speak for itself.
What's bittersweet about this discovery is that it comes just one week before I depart on a cross country bouldering trip with Luke Nicholls. At least it will still be here when I get back. (providing it wasn't a dream that is)
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