New World

Snow storm we encountered on the way back to Flag.

Dain's Chalk

I've been climbing at The New World recently. The New World is a sick limestone canyon with a seemingly endless amount of rock and high quality boulder problems. Most of the problems here have tall, pumpy topouts and sloping landings. Limestone roofs and aretes cover the steep hillsides of the canyon. Some of the roofs have the wavy quality of limestone reminiscent of Roger's Park in Central Texas. This area was recently discovered by locals Andy Klier and Sam Tingey, and has seen a recent surge of activity with likely 30+ new problems in the last few weeks, trails being built, and landings constructed. I built a better landing for the Swordfish last Monday with the help of Pat, so that the prow can be climbed to the end. Today I established a potential new boulder problem up the hill from Swordfish. It climbs the left side of a horizontal roof with strange drip holds and pockets starting in a bad undercling. When this area was discovered there was chalk on this climb. We're going to call this climb Dain's Chalk until we found out if this is a first ascent. This area could be the rumored Dain's World. This roof is straight power, and probably holds a difficulty similar to Cosmic Tricycle at Priest Draw. Other contributors to the area include Sam Davis(who has rappelled to clean a majority of the climbs), Ana Burgos, and Joe Morgan. I encountered one of the few monsoons this season on the way back to Flagstaff. We drove through heavy rain, fog, lightning, and even snow on Lake Mary Rd. about 30-40 miles from town.