This month of August has been very slow. The heat is suffocating, and so I've resorted to night sessions out at Blue Ridge to get some projects done. There still are a few things left that I would like to do this season, but the humidity and heat has made skin conditions very difficult, and the length of the climbs means that you only get a few goes per session before a tear happens that ends the session or fatigue catches up to you that further redpoint burns are no longer feasible. On one hand, my fitness for climbing on sharp pockets is quite possibly the highest I've ever had at the cost of power. On the other, I've been falling on the same moves for a while, and the window feels like it is growing short. I'll need to climb on some shorter, punchier problems to build my power back up.
