Gear All the gear we brought was useful! The doubles I brought seemed useful, the nuts were definitely useful, radios were useful since belays ended on top ridges. #0.2 – #4, with doubles of #0.4 – #2 Nuts 9 single alpines, 2 double alpines, 2 sport draws Radios (useful) 4 liters of water Bug spray…
Blueberry Buttress 2020
After bailing on Blueberry Buttress two years ago due to a loose flake, we’ve been wanting to get back up there. We heard the loose flake tumbled, and decided to go for Blueberry with a group of FIVE! Alexis, Gary, Liv, Cole, and myself. The road was in normal condition (no fallen tree anymore). Definitely…
Junior's Farm round 2!
Super quick this time! We even hiked Hurricane Ridge first in the morning and then climbed. Alexis and I swapped leads. I didn’t hang this time on P1! It was still difficult though. P1 + scramble: Andrew P2: Alexis (hung at cruxy bit) P3: Andrew P4 + traverse: Alexis P5: Andrew P5 to P6 scramble:…
The Perfect Crime | 2020
We left home at 3:00 AM as planned, and arrived to the trailhead around 6:10 AM, and started hiking at 6:25. Stats 1:30 hours on the approach 6:00 hours of climbing 2:00 hours of descending back to base of P1 1:00 hour of descending back to car 11:20 hours car-to-car (Started 6:25 AM, back at…
Rainier - DC Attempt
5:45 AM – Started hiking 6 hours to Muir. Was great starting that early, snow was a little slippery but better than soft and mushy later in the day! Didn’t need spikes but was close to needing spikes. Started off from Muir at 11:45 PM, got 10-15 minutes in and triggered a big whumph, continued…
Flyboys
Gear 70m rope (was needed for linking some of the pitches, otherwise too long) 19 draws (7 single alpines)… Didn’t use all of them, but skipped bolts when linking. 7 alpine was pretty good. Radios – useful! Other party was struggling to communicate and they didn’t even link pitches 1 liter of water each, Alexis…
Shoshone on Memorial Day
After yesterday’s failure on No Sweat Arete, we went for Shoshone on Sunday, with perfect weather… sunny skies, warmer temperatures, no wind. We hiked in and easily found the correct spire and found the traditional stream crossing. However, it was still early season, so the stream was roaring, and no easy crossing was to be…
No Sweat Arete 5/23/2020
Goodness was this a rough day! Location of climb on Mountain Project is totally wrong Cold, cloudy, windy, and a potential storm rolling in Ticks, ticks, and more ticks The first thing that went wrong was the approach. On Mountain Project, the crag’s location is set to be around the main crag wall. That also…
Junior's Farm 2020
SO MUCH FUN! Not sure why it’s rated PG13, super well bolted, all the “traverses” were super easy too. A true hidden gym. Plus it was only a 5 minute walk from the car! Pitch ratings are our best guess after climbing the route. Gear Brought 12 quickdraws, including 3 alpine singles and 1 double.…
MysterZ - 5.7, 9 pitches
MysterZ is simply a 5.7 route in Red Rock, shouldn’t be too difficult, right? Well, it was quite an adventure! Pitch 1 – Broke that up into 2 pitches? Definitely was tricky finding gear, a bit runout Pitch 2 – Maybe did that one in one pitch? Pitch 3 (scramble pitch) – I continued climbing…