Back in April, Daniel Woods climbed his longstanding project in Black Velvet Canyon, Red Rocks, Nevada. It was a sit start to Jimmy Webb's Sleepwalker (Font 8C+) which was already considered one of the hardest problems in the US. Woods named his sit start Return of the Sleepwalker and gave it the grade of Font 9A. Mellow have released the much-anticipated film that captures Woods' process on the problem.
> All the same, I do admire a bit of dedication to the cause. 62 days sounds like he put the effort in.
Yeah, he really put the effort in. At first I recall he was living in a hotel and so on. Before the FA, he had moved to sleeping in a tent close by stopped drinking alcohol etc.
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