On The Pegs July 2019 - Volume 4 - Issue 7 | Page 58

On The Pegs
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PAT SMAGE (1-1)
The shootout sections definitely looked difficult. The first one was pretty
scary even for me. The middle ledge was really big without much of a
run. Looking at it, I almost didn’t expect anybody to make it. The run we
had was just so short, but David found a rock behind that that you could
start on and get another foot of run, and that really made a huge differ-
ence . The first couple guys started close. Some of them made it, some
of them didn’t. Then David started a little bit further back and that’s
where I hit. It actually rode much easier than it looked, but it was just so
steep and so tall that I did not want to come back off of it, so I was pretty
nervous about that one. The rest of them were a little more technical. A
couple big hits in there, but mainly just technical and tricky angles and
interesting rocks. Overall good, hard sections.