Apollo Reed - A decade of climbing in the making (story in the description).
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
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Arguably the most popular and well known climb in the region.
Despite this fact, up until 2 months ago, I never really gave it the time or attention necessary to send it. Like any climb, its quality is obviously subjective but I'm fairly confident that most of the people that are familiar with the region universally agree that it's not the best climb in the area, let alone just the Coliseum. Yet, despite the mediocre, leaning towards negative opinion among those in the know, it continues to carry this allure among the climbing tourists, weekend warriors, and out of towners (as was certainly no different with myself in my early climbing years). Think of it as the New River regions' Mount Everest.
Thirteen years ago, approaching the age of 30, I made 2 climbing related goals, one of which being to send a 13. Armed with my limited knowledge of the New region, I came down here with the express purpose of sussing out the one "Juggy" 13 I could think of (and it seemed to be a lot of peoples first 13). After one session on it, I came to the conclusion I wasn't going to put it together in the following 4 months and abandoned it for something more attainable (which ended up being "Virtual Reality (5.13a)" at Safe Harbor, PA in November of that year).
The next 10 years that followed, I would commit a session a year, probably more as a litmus test then anything else. Finally, in 2019, I found myself in the New for an extended period and it certainly seemed like an opportune time to finally commit the time and energy to put it down. It took a grand total of 3 burns to lose my interest, probably more so because I got distracted by the amazing climbing of "POD" (5.13b). POD went down the following spring. After another burn and subsequent beating on Apollo and its crux, I was immediately distracted by "Mercy Seat (5.13a)" and well, another excuse to disregard Apollo.
...and that's what I realized when I got down here this past spring, I was just making excuses not to do it. While it's still true that I'm not totally inspired by Apollo, the real reason I wasn't giving it its demanded attention was because I wasn't confident in myself that I could actually put it together in a short amount of time.
Well, it took 2 months.
(more to the story, but I'm only allowed so many characters in the video description)
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That scene at the end when you're just chilling under that overhang and you can see the terrain behind you really portrays the end of that climb really well.
Thanks my man! Hope you're doing good!
Well done dude, tales of your effort on this route were told around campfires these past few weeks!
Heh, the Wobler day concerns me...
Отличный пролаз!
Pure joy to watch. Congrats!
Keep up 👌take all the good wishes and love👌
Congrats man, and thanks for the video/videos
Love to see a split screen of this showing the profile of the climb as well
Dangerous work
Yohoo bro.. been awhile the last time I watched our video and as a gift I sub now👍 love ur contents
Superb. Gnarly leg jamb.
Looks wild!!! Nice work!!! ❤🎉😮
Thank you very much for the beta! All the other videos online are hard to see what's happening
looks it is even possible to do it trad. Keep going and climb hard!!!
A few people have! Would be a total pain to clean if it weren't for the permas :P
The late, great Paul Nelson tried on several occasions to get me to get on this thing with comments like "you're tall, and every hold on this is a 5.11- hold, it's just a little strenuous. LOL This first person vid tells me that this likely is not the case. Well done, sir.
Congrats!!!!
Well done! Very inspiring
Awesome send! Congrats!
Congrats!
Nice send, Seth!
Congrats man, sick
Making it look easy! Nice climb
What do you do for a living that allows you to climb so often?
I just answered my question from your Facebook page 😂
how are you mounting your gopro?
Where's the crux on here?
from 4:08 to 5:03
The Red in a word...burly
...oops...New...thanks for the edit
The New, not the Red
Ryan Booth did it better…nice send lol
Lol I'm glad I have such ride or die friends. Maybe one day Apollo will become bland but for now I'm obsessed with it still even after sending. The sportiest of all sport climbs though it might not be everyone's cup of tea.
Gotta give us his beta