"Get rugged this time, man..."

repeated the gentelman in the blue shirt. "Lock that heel hold and get rugged this time."
Working the Fin at Blowing Rock's Mushroom Boulder, Mark and I could not quite muster the ruggedness. The crux is a skinny spine, more accurately a fin, that requires the pinching power of a clothes pin from all four limbs. Neither of us topped out that day, but I came away with a new philosophy--GET RUGGED.