Today was going to be the day; I had my new shoes, I was well rested, I felt strong, the conditions were good.

It was time to send "No Troublems". After a few tries I was feeling pretty good. I was sticking the first move really consistently, but kept popping off a couple moves later. Still I felt like I was going to make it. Then it happened. I pulled on to the start, fought my way across the roof moves and there I was, at the jug. Nothing left to do but top out.

"(though I have yet to try to moves on the kind of scary top out, I dont think they are that hard)"

I said that two blog entries ago... 

I went from the jug to a hand jam, then cross over to a pinch...then pumped out and came off reaching to the next hold. I blew it, after that I didn't  have the energy to make it through the problem again. Thomasina had told me to make sure I practice the roof moves before actually getting there. I didn't listen.

Oh well. Now I have done the top out on its own and I know I'll get it eventually. 

While I was there working on it Thomasina sent it for the first time, and Ben and Sonnie Trotter sent the lower starting version. Sonnie actually did it twice because he dabbed the first time...

T-Bird using her vulcan death grip on "No Troublems"

After that I went to work on "ATD", V7, while Ben, Thomo and Sonnie worked on dreamcatcher.

Thomasina working on "Dreamcatcher"

I Didn't fare very well on ATD and was starting to get a little frustrated. Then I watched T-Bird send "King Kong", and we went to try "The Fun Factory Low" v9. I didn't get anywhere on this at all.

By now we'd been bouldering all day and I havn't successfully climbed anything. In fact, i haven't successfully climbed anything I've had to work on this entire trip.

Ben and Thomo called it quits for the day, but I managed to convince a few people to go get on "The Rookie" V8, a problem I had worked on with Luke one of my first days here.

Much to my relief it went after just a couple goes and I instantly felt better about the whole day. I had been starting to feel like I had some kind of block from actually finishing anything. So it felt really good to finally top something out.

Hopefully it will continue. Brad gets here tomorrow, and the rest of the Newfoundland crew follows sometime shortly after.