Yosemite

What an awesome weekend in Yosemite!
It was my thrid time up there for this year, and I have to say that it was the best trip so far.
We left the Bay Area shortly after 6pm on Friday night... Traffic out of was pretty bad, due to an accident on 680...
Another delay which turned out longer than expected was the stop for dinner at Hula's, a burger place in Escalon. We tried this since they claim the have the best burgers in the Central Valley, and we wanted to scope out options besides the awesome Taqueria Algave in Oakdale. Well, if these were indeed the best burgers in the Valley, I am glad I didn't try any other places! Taqueria Algave wins by far!

We were lucky going down HW 120, since we hit the traffic light at the construction on green! YAY! No further delays there...by 11pm we were nicely tucked away in our sleeping bags in the Upper Pines campground.

Saturday morning started with a cup of coffee and a rather large breakfast: Banana, bread and avocado and some cake...

For our first climb we headed over to Sunnyside Bench, were I led the first pitch of Jamcrack; Wendy leading the second pitch. After rapping of the second pitch , we set up a toprope from the 1st pitch anchors to give 'Bummer' and 'Lazy Bum' a go on TR. The two climbs share the same start and develop into finger cracks of different difficulty (.10c & .10d). After cleaning the TR, we moved over to the 'Five Open Books' to give 'Commitment' a go. Wendy led all three pitches of this climb. We topped out around 5 pm, and took our time on the way back to the car. After beer and pizza for dinner we took a short walk around the campground. It was amazing to see lights on Washington Coloumn, thinking that we'll be up there ourselves in a few weeks.
Sunday's climbing was a little slower, we went cragging at Church Bowl, where we did Uncle Fanny (my lead) and Church Bowl Lieback (Wendy's lead). Uncle Fanny is a chimney/off-width. Just the kind of climbing I have to get better on!