Slapping Sweet Southern Sandstone Slopers!
If that isn’t the slogan for Horse Pens 40 than I don’t know what is. HP40 is a densely packed bouldering field located in northern Alabama. Supporting some of the sickest sandstone in the world this should be on everyone’s bucket list.
Warning: if you have a soft ego and can’t handle failing miserably on V3’s then I would suggest you stay at the gym and play on plastic.
Horse Pens 40 Bouldering is dedicated to the southern way (literally that’s what the guidebook is dedicated too) and this means that nothing will come easy. If you find a soft problem in the park please leave a comment below telling us about it. The words “soft” and “Horse Pens” rarely end up in the same sentence. The previous sentence was actually the first occurrence since the paleo age…Seriously though, Bouldering at HP40 is tough (some would say sandbagged), but that’s part of the fun. You won’t find any straightforward crimp ladders or jug haul roof problems. What you will find is the inability to top out, anything.If you are looking for somewhere close by where top outs in mildly easier please try Rocktown or Stone Fort.
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