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A busy weekend of climbing
Sep. 30th, 2013 09:10 amSo busy, that I've been off-line since Friday evening.
Friday I bought myself a new pocket camera, since my previous one had gotten wet in England (who knew you could get wet weather in England?), and wasn't working. This one has 15x optical zoom, which should be nice for getting good shots of Yosemite Valley.
Saturday I was up fairly early, to pick up a couple more climbers at 8am, and head to Home Cliff near Luskville. We had a great day of climbing, with gorgeous autumn weather, and the trees just starting to colour nicely. I managed to get a clean lead on Lavender (5.9) which I'd taken a couple falls on leading last time I tried, a couple weekends ago. After I got back from climbing, I grabbed some dinner at the Daily Grind, walking over with Amelia to meet Paul. Then we headed back to my place, to be joined by Kim for a game of El Grande, which finished around 11:30pm.
Sunday I was headed for the Adirondacks with Flo for more climbing, so we planned on a 5am departure. We got slightly delayed on the way out because Flo had forgotten to bring his passport, but still got to Pitchoff Chimney Cliff by around 9am, where we climbed Pete's Farewell, a lovely 3-pitch 5.7 climb (though, fairly short pitches). A nice short approach, too. Then we drove along a bit further to Upper Washbowl. As the name suggests, the approach to this cliff was a fair bit longer, and noticeably uphill -- probably about 45 minutes, mostly fairly steeply uphill. We climbed Hesitation, a lovely 4-pitch, 350ft long route that goes at 5.8.
After the two climbs, we headed home, and I got home around 10:30 (after gear sort), and I almost immediately went to bed.
Friday I bought myself a new pocket camera, since my previous one had gotten wet in England (who knew you could get wet weather in England?), and wasn't working. This one has 15x optical zoom, which should be nice for getting good shots of Yosemite Valley.
Saturday I was up fairly early, to pick up a couple more climbers at 8am, and head to Home Cliff near Luskville. We had a great day of climbing, with gorgeous autumn weather, and the trees just starting to colour nicely. I managed to get a clean lead on Lavender (5.9) which I'd taken a couple falls on leading last time I tried, a couple weekends ago. After I got back from climbing, I grabbed some dinner at the Daily Grind, walking over with Amelia to meet Paul. Then we headed back to my place, to be joined by Kim for a game of El Grande, which finished around 11:30pm.
Sunday I was headed for the Adirondacks with Flo for more climbing, so we planned on a 5am departure. We got slightly delayed on the way out because Flo had forgotten to bring his passport, but still got to Pitchoff Chimney Cliff by around 9am, where we climbed Pete's Farewell, a lovely 3-pitch 5.7 climb (though, fairly short pitches). A nice short approach, too. Then we drove along a bit further to Upper Washbowl. As the name suggests, the approach to this cliff was a fair bit longer, and noticeably uphill -- probably about 45 minutes, mostly fairly steeply uphill. We climbed Hesitation, a lovely 4-pitch, 350ft long route that goes at 5.8.
After the two climbs, we headed home, and I got home around 10:30 (after gear sort), and I almost immediately went to bed.
