Catshole/Washington's Head

Had a great treck up to Meriden today with our friends Maura & Otter & had a great time climbing Catshole, known to the locals as Washington's Head. Maura brought along her copy of Rock Climbing Connecticut which had some nice trail names/notations. Not much climbing for me thou due to a bum shoulder...but the other three were good and tired in the end. We also had an awesome climbing neighbor by way of a Frenchman who kept doing the same trial, "Pegasus", over and over and he was AMAZING. It was a little cold and I was a bit annoyed at being on the ground most of the day - but all and all a nice day spent outside (if you could ignore the road noise and the fact that we were walking distance from the mall). One major perk: the walk from the car to the face is about 3 minutes. Also, the trees grow at a slight angle to the hill, so when you're belaying you can lean back & it doesn't hurt your neck ;)