Basalt Column Climbing BAN

Yesterday together with Mkrtich Nazarian we went to Hrazdan gorge to take pictures of the rocks “Spitak” rescue team territory for topo.

After the work is done I decided not to miss the opportunity and improvise a new boulder problem and as far as my start position was like that in a toilet I decided to call it Toilet pan. I estimated the difficulty level at V0 with 9 hand moves to the top.

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Details: Category: Rock Climbing; Published: 21 March 2009

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MOUNTAIN GUIDING

Rock and Ice climbing

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