It all started at 6am... ate breakfast and packed the car and on the road by 6:30. Picked up Jay at GSR and hit the road. We made it to the Gunks around 9:30 even with our little altercation with the law, still pretty pumped about the day. This was the first time any of us explored Peterskill so I knew it would be an adventure.
Right off the bat we started hiking the wrong way we eventually found our way to the warm up area and worked some problems. the Sidewalk, Loner Boner, Exit, and Spew Harder to name a few. After we warmed up a bit we decided to move onto bigger and better things.
We started hiking towards the Rock Garden. After possibly 2-3 hours of hiking around in circles we found Atrium boulders. We worked Lightning Blade, the Diving Board, and Mentos. We got a little too worked over for our liking and started to head back towards the Lions Den area. After a bout with some mosquitoes and black flies we made it through the piles of jagged talus rocks that is the Rock Garden and made it to Lions Den.
Wandering around we stumbled onto the Quarantine area, literally stumbled because we passed it unknowingly at least two times before. We focused on the Outbreak Boulder and the problem V.D. for the most part and while chilling there we met some locals and got some good beta and got preached to on how gym climbing and climbing real rock are two different worlds and that ate up out remaining hours.
All in all it was a good day we didn't send much, but what would you expect from a first time out. Just makes us want to get back there as soon as possible for some more good times. Ohh and if you weren't aware," It's called rock climbing, not rock crying."
rock on
-Matt
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