Drew Ruana Just Had the Best Three Climbing Days of His Life

Steven Potter
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This article originally appeared on Climbing

Last week, Drew Ruana had his most productive three days of climbing to date. On Wednesday, October 5, he nabbed the long-awaited second ascent of Daniel Woods's Ice Knife Sit (V16) in Colorado's Guanella Pass. On Thursday, he FA'd Ozymandias, a technical new V14 in Clear Creek Canyon. And on Friday, he did the FA of The Player, the V15 right exit to Daniel Woods's The Game (also V15) in Boulder Canyon.

"Everything just kind of clicked," Ruana told Climbing. "I thought it was going to take weeks to do those three boulders. ...It was the best three days of climbing I've ever had."

This flurry of hard ascents comes on the heels of a productive summer during which the college junior, who's trying to send every problem V14 and harder in Colorado, started to focus a bit more on establishing new hard lines.

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