Summary

When:   6/30-7/1/2001
Where:   Pilot Mountain, NC
Who:   Lisa Lorenzin
What (6/30):   8-Ball (5.8)
   10-Ball (5.10)
What (7/1):   Buzzard's Breath (5.7)
   Pee Break (5.6)
   Too Old to Rock and Roll (5.10)
   I'm Flyin' (5.7)

Description

Lisa and I got up to Pilot mid-afternoon on Saturday, taking my dog, Heidi, with us. We headed straight to the campground to setup our tent and secure a campsite for the night so we wouldn't have to worry about that later after climbing. Then we headed to the crags and hiked down from the parking lot to the overhanging 8-Ball, 9-Ball and 10-Ball. We hiked to the end of the trail and looped around rather than cutting down the Three Bears gully or the verboten gully next to the *-Ball climbs. We reaffirmed that it's a long way aroung the end and back.

We worked on climbing 8-Ball and either 9-Ball or 10-Ball -- I've never figured out where one ends and the next one begins -- for a while. I was not doing very well, and couldn't make more than a couple moves on 8-Ball. The only thing I succeeded in doing was tearing a couple of small flappers on my left hand. My excuse for poor performance is that I was still a little sore from water skiing earier in the week. Lisa, on the other hand, was doing pretty well on both routes. She made it up 8-Ball and gave 10-Ball a good run for the money, slapping a hand up onto the holds on the face of the roof, but she never pulled it. When the sky started to darked and thunder, we packed up and headed back up to the car. We timed it perfectly: it was just starting to drizzle as we got to the parking lot.

TBD.