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Climbing and seeing friends
Feb. 10th, 2013 08:55 pmI managed to make it out for a day of climbing -- found a guy (Andrew) in San Francisco interested in going out, so we headed north up the Napa valley to Mt. St. Helena. It has a few crags, but we climbed at the closest one (about a 35 minute approach, uphill the whole way, varying steepness).
We started on a route called "The Old Ladder" which was, apparently "5.9". Ok, somewhat old-school 5.9, since on The Crag, it clocks in at 5.10b. Andrew lead it cleanly, I took two falls on the follow, but made it up. I then lead a 5.5 trad route up a corner with a bit of chimney work, and Andrew followed. Then, while waiting for another climb, we reversed that, and I followed. Finally I lead a slab climb which was "5.7", took a decent lead fall, then a 2nd fall at the same point before I worked out the sequence. Andrew lead it as well, and then following I got it clean. It was technical, on some little pockets.
After dropping Andrew back home, I head over to thatguychuck's place and had dinner with him and Erica, and they're 2-year-old. It was great to see Chuck and Erica again, it has been (and always is) too long between visits.
We started on a route called "The Old Ladder" which was, apparently "5.9". Ok, somewhat old-school 5.9, since on The Crag, it clocks in at 5.10b. Andrew lead it cleanly, I took two falls on the follow, but made it up. I then lead a 5.5 trad route up a corner with a bit of chimney work, and Andrew followed. Then, while waiting for another climb, we reversed that, and I followed. Finally I lead a slab climb which was "5.7", took a decent lead fall, then a 2nd fall at the same point before I worked out the sequence. Andrew lead it as well, and then following I got it clean. It was technical, on some little pockets.
After dropping Andrew back home, I head over to thatguychuck's place and had dinner with him and Erica, and they're 2-year-old. It was great to see Chuck and Erica again, it has been (and always is) too long between visits.
