Driving down the freshly snowed 395 which not many people do, looking out the window and looking at Mt Tom with a crazy blizzard, trying to get excited on Half Shark Alligator Half Man. This Problem was recently put up by Dan Mills in the Sads. Originally known as the Sun Catcher Problem not enough was known about it. The only thing I know was that I needed to try it after watching Eric Sandchez do this problem for the 3rd ascent. Heading down there late on Saturday due to Dustin haveing to work till 10 we were able to gun it and try about 2 hours of this problem getting the beta and working moves. After firguring out how to do the first moves up to the crux it was dark so we had to save the crux for the next day. Heading down to town to hangout and eat some food we got way to psyched for our own good. After going to Vons to get some stuff and realizing that shit head A.K.A Oscar at my Apple Jacks and Dustin's burrito, we headed up to camp to get some rest. Heading up there and warming up and trying the moves that we worked the night before. We decided to work the crux which is this big move to this good edge from a weired three pocket and a really wide pinch. This move stumped me forever trying to get it. After just psyched I was able to stick the move. Trying to do this from the start was hard! Its hard to try to have enough power to finish the move since this thing is V11. It was a good way to try and get famileure with the problem and be able to understand and do it! Next week I went back down but that's another story to be told.
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