Rock Climbing Armenian First Ascent Open Festival - May 29-31, 2011 Garni Gorge and Enclosing Party | Armenian First Ascent Open Festival - May 29-31, 2011 Garni Gorge and Enclosing Party |
| Written by Mkhitar Mkitaryan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Thursday, 02 June 2011 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 In the morning of May 29, the crew left for Garni Gorge, the last destination of the Festival where basalt columns rock formations were waiting for climbers. As it was mentioned before, the basalt columns in Garni and Arpa Gorges are considered Natural Monuments and Up The Rocks club got the permit to Clean Climb on these formations during the Festival from Ministry of Nature Protection. At noon climbers hiked down the gorge to the rocks from the campsite, which was located on a small plateau on the Visitors’ Center in Khosrov Reserve. Spending at the Garni Gorge rocks recent days, Jared Nielson, Jason Stevens, Will Nazarian and Katy Anderson had already developed some projects there. Particularly, JJ sector was found by Jared and Jason, and Will and Katy had been developing new amazing lines on both sides of “Doudouk”. Nasim Eshqi started a new project at the same sector where Doudouk is located. For the rest of the day, climbers worked on the projects and repeated the existing lines.
The next day, May 30, both Alexeys from Russia did two FAs on JJ sector. On the same sector Will Nazarian did the “Snakeskin” and finished his projects “Airivanq” and “Knot Doudouk” on the other sector. Carolina and Nasim finished their project naming it “Up The Rocks”. Another two FAs “AnDoVenture” and “Spitak is rescued” were completed by the girls on the sector JJ.
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