Euro-trash Climber: An individual in the pursuit to bolt every piece of rock he can find. Euro-trash climbers are most easily recognized by comparing climbing area's to Europe, wearing hand jamies, lay back cracks and yell encouraging words such as Allez or Venga in excess.
A typical Euro Trash Climber. The camo doesn't help.
The year is almost over and more and more snow starts to accumulate in front of my window. It is dark at 4 in the afternoon, and 0 degrees Celsius can be considered short and flip flop weather, here on the sheep ranch. However, recently my good friend Andrew and I invested an incredible amount of time into developing a new area called the Confederate Territory. No, this climbing area is not south of the Mason Dixon Line. nor does it have any other southern characteristic. There is no form of sedimentary rock, no fried chicken, no swamps and also no cotton. However, there is an incredible amount of smooth, golden granite, that just asked to be bolted. And you know why? Because Eurotrash Johnny Sauerkraut, got his dirty euro fingers on a good amount of bolts and a Bosch. So after a shorter exploration hike, to assess the quality of the rock and the difficulty of the approach, Andrew and I started our hike up the Calvary, fully equipped with 2 Bosch's, about 30 nice and shiny 3/8 expansion bolts and the essential crowbar. Our little expedition was joined by Andrews brother Chris and Ryan. After a pilgrimage through dark forests, big talus fields and some other vegetation, we finally arrived at the Mississippi Burning Wall. The first wall in a series of shark fins, that rise from the Wyoming plains. In the following is a photographic collection of some of the new routes that went up.
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