By: Urs Moosmuller
After a week of training in the gym, we headed out to a small bouldering area in Pennsylvania. Governor Dodge is quite the hidden little spot. Finding the area took a lot of back tracking and walking around, but after 20 minutes of searching we finally found the entrance. The hike in is pretty cool, because there are no signs of rock anywhere and suddenly you enter this little gorge and find some pretty decent sized boulders all over the hill side. We ticked off the most obvious lines like: Bread Loaf Arete V4, Juggernaut V5, and Karmic Power V5. I got the chance to get on an unknown line that looked really cool and it turned out to be Lock N’ Load V10. I worked it until past dark and we headed back to find a place to crash for the night. The next day we woke up and hiked back in to the first set of boulders and warmed up on some really good moderates. Clouds were starting to move in so we hiked over to Slap Me V7 and with 100 percent humidity the sloper crux seemed impossible. Fifteen minutes later a down pour hit and for a while the boulder stayed dry. We played around on it until the trees above the boulder started shedding water on us. We packed up and sprinted back to the car and made the decision to head back to Maryland. It was a short but fun trip. First time outdoor climbing in the east coast!!
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