
Closing the lid on an eventful year
After a great summer trip, I came back home at the end of August. I headed back to the Pic aux Corbeaux at Orford National Park in Quebec, our home crag. The style of climbing at Orford is very similar to Rifle (besides the fact that most routes are shorter at Orford, and that the rock is metamorphic basalt and not limestone) with sustain, cruxy, beta intensive climbing, and kneebar trickery on several routes. All winter while training in the gym, I had a line on my mind I wa