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Feb 21, 2024 Adirondacks > Adirondack Ice… > D: Keene Valley… > Lock Ness > Second Comming (WI3) Start of the route. Steep headwall is behind the trees. ● This looks to be a lower/alternate start to Second Coming. Traditional start would be just right of the bar… View Comment
Jul 12, 2023 Powerlinez > n. Perched Ramp… > 7. Puzzle Palace > Purple Rain (Ice) (WI2) Purple Rain (Ice) ● In a really good year some smaller, often ephemeral lines can form, but most climbers will be better served… View Comment
Mar 3, 2023 Colonial Greenway > Saxon Woods South The Saxon Woods guidebook, put out sometime in the early 90's, I think. ● There's record of bouldering in Saxon Woods as far back as the sixties - and even at that time, evidence su… View Comment
Oct 14, 2022 Powerlinez > n. Perched Ramp… > 7. Puzzle Palace Diagon Alley 5.8 ● I did, but pretty sure I'm not the first to lead this one. A friend of mine might have been the first to l… View Comment
Oct 14, 2022 Powerlinez > n. Perched Ramp… > 7. Puzzle Palace The Gorgon 5.8+ ● 3.5” cam helpful. View Comment
Oct 14, 2022 Powerlinez > n. Perched Ramp… > 7. Puzzle Palace Diagon Alley 5.8 ● Protects reasonably with small and micro gear. View Comment
Sep 9, 2022 Powerlinez > m. Picatinny > 1. Manayunk Sure Bet 5.8 ● I have a strong suspicion that kenr accidentally transposed the grades of this climb (Sure Bet, which he ra… View Comment
Sep 9, 2022 Powerlinez > m. Picatinny > 1. Manayunk Know When to 5.8+ ● This and the arete just to the left are probably the best lines on this wall. Some great dihedral moves he… View Comment
Sep 9, 2022 Powerlinez > m. Picatinny > 1. Manayunk Play the Slot 5.8+ ● Maybe slightly contrived, but staying off the big, flat holds on the right and climbing the arete as direct… View Comment
Sep 7, 2022 Powerlinez > Powerlinez Bou… > zz ... more ... Crazy Tree rock ● @Tyler Fisher The old print guidebook has 9 easy problems. View Comment
Aug 2, 2022 Powerlinez Parking Regulations as of November 2021 ● A new trail from the saltbox parking area was completed in June 2022, an updated map is available at the TV… View Comment
Jul 11, 2022 Powerlinez > h. Revolutionar… > 9. Basilisk The Fuzz 5.9- PG13 ● @Dennis K It's called Ramparts - some fun face climbing in that middle section if I remember correctly. View Comment
Jun 10, 2022 Powerlinez > k. Tower Wall area > 4. Dave's Wall Skywire 5.9 PG13 ● There's a traversing boulder problem that crosses the bottom of the Enclosure (Valhalla Traverse/V3) that c… View Comment
Jun 8, 2022 Phoenicia, Sportsman's Wall ● @Jonas Telson I'm not a local but I climb in the Catskills fairly often, I would vote no on Roundup. I hav… View Comment
Feb 21, 2022 Catskills (Ice) > Platte Clove > Dark Side - Low… > Frozen Apples (WI3+) Frozen Apples - the full route including the final curtain and tat/rap rings ● I believe this is Frozen Apples. Gold Leader is the yellowish flow another 50 feet or so to the left. View Comment
Jan 8, 2022 Blue Mtn Park > Rocky Glen Pond > Loose Change (V1 5) Camden chalking the holds on Loose Change ● I'm a transplant myself. The most helpful local knowledge I can think of: ticks are everywhere. Look into… View Comment
Jan 7, 2022 Blue Mtn Park > Rocky Glen Pond > Loose Change (V1 5) Camden chalking the holds on Loose Change ● Love the stoke, guys - but I'm reminded of something I think was said by Mike Schneider or one of the old W… View Comment
Oct 29, 2021 Powerlinez > s. Books Tier > 6. The Good Book Adrian's Crack with Bush 5.6 PG13 ● Fun, but as mentioned, there is a ton of rotten rock on this route. Use caution. View Comment
Sep 27, 2021 Powerlinez > f. Yankee Ramparts > 5. Vulnerability Corner Vulnerability 5.10 R ● Such a fun climb, the best of the 'ability' trilogy, not to be missed. View Comment
Sep 27, 2021 Powerlinez > k. Tower Wall area > 4. Dave's Wall Thread the Gap 5.9 R ● The placements before the roof did not feel confidence-inspiring. If I led this again I'd start on Roofy D… View Comment
Sep 12, 2021 Powerlinez > a. Rock Dojo to… > 6.God Jam Buttress Naked Singularity 5.11a ● Bottom half works as a chimney as well, probably the most awkward but also easiest way up to the horn. View Comment
Jun 25, 2021 Powerlinez > a. Rock Dojo to… > 6.God Jam Buttress Cracking Up 5.8+ ● I added this route as 5.8+ because that was the way the FA graded it, but personally I’d call it 5.9+ based… View Comment
Jun 18, 2021 Powerlinez > k. Tower Wall area > 2. Munsee Swallow Crack 5.9 ● The #4, #5, and #6 Camalots that never make it out of your pack? That’s your whole rack for this climb. View Comment
Jun 14, 2021 Powerlinez > h. Revolutionar… > 9. Basilisk Billy Get Your Guns 5.8+ PG13 ● Well-protected crux, solid placements throughout - a fun, G-rated climb. View Comment
Jun 11, 2021 Powerlinez > s. Books Tier > 6. The Good Book Up the Slot 5.8+ PG13 ● Took me a while to find the gear at the bottom of the corner, but it’s there… View Comment
May 20, 2021 Powerlinez > s. Books Tier > 6. The Good Book Kafka on the Shore 5.8 ● There's a really fun trad line here - forget moving left halfway up and stemming, just follow the crack up… View Comment
Apr 6, 2021 Powerlinez > f. Yankee Ramparts > 1. C U P Friday the 13th AKA Knowlton-Barone Direct 5.7+ ● Black Vultures currently nesting here (Spring 2021) - please consider staying off this route until August. View Comment
Apr 6, 2021 Powerlinez > f. Yankee Ramparts > 1. C U P Between the Lions 5.9 R ● Black Vultures currently nesting here (Spring 2021) - please consider staying off this route until August. View Comment
Apr 6, 2021 Powerlinez > f. Yankee Ramparts > 1. C U P Patience 5.7 ● Black Vultures currently nesting here (Spring 2021) - please consider staying off this route until August. View Comment
Mar 24, 2021 Powerlinez > k. Tower Wall area > 5. Three Bears Wall Papa Bear 5.4 ● Re:Chris Karcz/Barry Fuller I've always climbed this left of the flakes, per the guidebook "up to an 8 ft… View Comment
Oct 1, 2020 Powerlinez > k. Tower Wall area > 6. The Tower Wall > Back to the Wall (5.8 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c PG13) Paweł through the initial trickiness. Not much gear choice down low. He doesn't often place the 0 c3. ● I believe this is Any Which Way But Down - or at least what's described as 'Variation 1' of that route. Tr… View Comment
Sep 14, 2019 Powerlinez > k. Tower Wall area > 6. The Tower Wall In & Out 5.4 ● The first pitch is terribly short but as a whole it's a fun route. Mind the rope drag. The topo as curren… View Comment
Sep 5, 2019 Powerlinez > s. Books Tier > 5.1 The Shelves Faust 5.7 ● Couldn't find anything besides a slung tree in the first twenty feet, but the climbing is pretty easy, abov… View Comment
Sep 4, 2019 Powerlinez > s. Books Tier > 5.2 Top Shelf Cross Bronx wrong exit 5.9 ● Couldn't find any confidence-inspiring placements after the start, had to downclimb, may not go on gear. View Comment
Aug 31, 2019 Powerlinez > s. Books Tier > 5.2 Top Shelf Warn’t no home like a Raft 5.6 ● Goes on gear, bring small finger-sized cams. View Comment
Aug 31, 2019 Powerlinez > s. Books Tier > 5.1 The Shelves Mephistopheles 5.6 ● G-rated if you bring a #6 to bump up the first twenty feet. View Comment

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