8 September 2022
P con fin mas Hulk extension 9a by Alex Ventajas
Alex Ventajas has been on a trip to where he did four 8cโs and P con fin mas Hulk extension (9a) (c) Silvia Coppola
โRodellar is one of my favorite spots to spend the summer holidays. I love this climbing style with a lot of knee pads, overhang, and roof climbing. It is like a little paradise for climbers.
Since few days before departure, I wasnโt sure about what to do, but in the end, I took the guide and made up a list of the 8c routes I havenโt done yet. I thought it could be a good compromise between climbing hard and having fun. Also, an Italian friend of mine was coming with me and I wanted to show him different sectors, instead of having to go always in the same place to try one specific route.
In the end, I think I made a really good choice. The 8c routes I choose were super different from each other, so it ended up being a really stimulating and fanatic challenge:
Welcome to Tijuana (8c) is a very demanding and bouldery route, with super powerful moves on crimps,
El hijo libre (8c) itโs pure roof climbing with lots of kneebars and tricks to figure out,
is 40 meters endurance climbing with some hard moves in between.
Hulk extension (8c), a classic in Alรฌ Baba cave: a very physical line with bad holds and crazy kneebars.
After sending it I got curious about the 9a โProa + Fin de Ali Hulk Extensionโ, a logical line that connects an 8A or 8A+ boulder problem with the 8c: itโs a super physical route that tires all your body, especially your legs and I managed to solve the boulder quite rapidly and, in the beginning, I thought that if I could pass the boulder I wasnโt going to fall in the second part. Things went exactly in the opposite way: the route in fact itโs quite longer than it seems and in the last few meters hides an infinity of moves! Actually, in the first two attempts, I manage to pass the boulder falling in the last move of the 8c because I run out of strength, and I finally sent the route on my third go.
I found it pretty funny to combine boulder and rope in the same route, so maybe next trip here I would try the original connection โAli Baba Hulk extensionโ (9a+), that crosses the entire cave!โ
โRodellar is one of my favorite spots to spend the summer holidays. I love this climbing style with a lot of knee pads, overhang, and roof climbing. It is like a little paradise for climbers.
Since few days before departure, I wasnโt sure about what to do, but in the end, I took the guide and made up a list of the 8c routes I havenโt done yet. I thought it could be a good compromise between climbing hard and having fun. Also, an Italian friend of mine was coming with me and I wanted to show him different sectors, instead of having to go always in the same place to try one specific route.
In the end, I think I made a really good choice. The 8c routes I choose were super different from each other, so it ended up being a really stimulating and fanatic challenge:
Welcome to Tijuana (8c) is a very demanding and bouldery route, with super powerful moves on crimps,
El hijo libre (8c) itโs pure roof climbing with lots of kneebars and tricks to figure out,
is 40 meters endurance climbing with some hard moves in between.
Hulk extension (8c), a classic in Alรฌ Baba cave: a very physical line with bad holds and crazy kneebars.
After sending it I got curious about the 9a โProa + Fin de Ali Hulk Extensionโ, a logical line that connects an 8A or 8A+ boulder problem with the 8c: itโs a super physical route that tires all your body, especially your legs and I managed to solve the boulder quite rapidly and, in the beginning, I thought that if I could pass the boulder I wasnโt going to fall in the second part. Things went exactly in the opposite way: the route in fact itโs quite longer than it seems and in the last few meters hides an infinity of moves! Actually, in the first two attempts, I manage to pass the boulder falling in the last move of the 8c because I run out of strength, and I finally sent the route on my third go.
I found it pretty funny to combine boulder and rope in the same route, so maybe next trip here I would try the original connection โAli Baba Hulk extensionโ (9a+), that crosses the entire cave!โ
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