Armageddon 5000 v11

holyyyyy can't contain the yapfest so it'll go here: armageddon lived rent-free in the back of my mind since my first visit to the holies. i got really stoked to do the red sea and my friends wandered off and left me alone with some strangers to project it. i remember peaking around the corner to take a look at armageddon and was confused because i saw the start holds and not much else. there were a few tiny features that jutted out of the face, but i couldn't comprehend how anyone would be able to make moves off of those holds. still, i told myself that it would be cool if i could ever get to that point. but it felt unlikely. that was 2022. it was very surprising the way armageddon "just" went. i set up a tripod after warming up, thinking that i would use it to figure out nuances i need to tweak to make the bump to the righthand slopers and pinch, because i had not made any of those moves at that point. i had spent the previous session (my first "real" session on it i would say, and the first this trip) figuring out the opening match and move to the lefthand pinch, along with the throw to the lip and the topout. i felt confident that if i could get both of my hands to the two pinches, i had a decent chance of sending. i hit the left hand pinch, and it felt so much better today, being 6-7 degrees lower than the previous session. i stuck all of the bumps, hit the lip a bit poorly, and somehow sent on my first go of the session. grades aside, it's the transition from feeling that a certain boulder problem looks incomprehensible and feels improbable to being able to float up it with a certain precision and mental clarity that has me so addicted to this senseless sport, and i enjoy it so much.

Legend bloc

Took about a dozen goes! My first 8a! Psyched!!!