ABS Nationals 2010

With our nations capital covered in a blanket of snow six climbers from the Inclimb Rock Gym Climbing Team braved the aftermath of the worst snow storm in DC history to compete at the USA Climbing ABS National Championships February 13 - 14, 2010.

The comp had great routes for the youth field. Lots of dynamic movement with interesting sequencing. Also, climbers were treated to some slab climbing- a rarity at comps.

We had four of our six climbers qualify for finals. In order to qualify climbers had to finish in the top ten within their category.

The addition of the Pyramide World Cup walls was great along with the lighting on the walls for both the youth and pro climbers.

Tristan (pictured above) managed to climb his way into a 11 way first place tie in qualifiers flashing all four problems.... Oh, did we mention he had food poisoning the night before and hadn't slept or eaten in hours... Tristan went on to a 3rd place finish in finals and a spot on the USA Climbing Team!

Each age category had the best 30 climbers from across the US climbing against each other. There were lots of very impressive climbers there and among them were the 6 wearing Inclimb shirts! As a team Inclimb finished a very impressive 17th out of 95 teams that were competing throughout the weekend.

Along with competing in the competition team members also enjoyed watching the pros duke it out in the open finals Friday night, taking in the sites of the Capital, and whittling away hours waiting for our hotel shuttle each day.