28 January 2015

8A+/B by Alex Johnson

Alex Johnson has done maybe the fifth ascent of Hungry hungry hippos in Red Rocks which Alex thinks is 8A+/B and two guys first said 8B but later changed it to 8A+. "It has taken me weeks to add this to my 8a account. Maybe it's 12, maybe it's 13. This is an example of where a slash grade is not only perfectly acceptable, it's appropriate. This is the hardest climb I've done in years. It also has phenomenal movement; it was addicting to project, I couldn't get enough of it. My loyalties lay where they lay, but trolls are here to stay. #spray." Alex, who was #1, #2 and #1 in the three first ever Boulder World Cup she attended, has previously recorded seven 8A+ to her log-book.
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