... A good weekend! :-)
I spent the weekend in the Valley with the SAC crowd. After driving up on Friday night we all met up at Swan Slab Saturday morning, where we placed several TRs... Oak Tree Flake, Grant's Crack, the line next to Grant's, the Aid Route, and Lena's Lieback. After TRing and just chilling for a while Paul came up with the idea of trying to free the 11b part of the aid route. Since the moves are well protected I was happy to give it a few goes... I guess that's what's called "working a project"... We both failed miserably... We'll have to come back and try with some aggressive shoes, since we identified that improper shoes were the only reason we couldn't make the crucial move ;-)
At the end of the day I jugged up the line to clean the TR. It has been a while since I last practiced aiding and I had forgotten how hard it is to jug... Good practice for an attempt on something big, which will hopefully come later this summer.
On Sunday I took Sam and Leo to Glacier Point Apron, where we climbed Harry Daley. Sam led the first pitch, Leo the second. We ran into two other parties from Stanford (well, the extended community) Linda and Heather and Mary and Ashley... It was quite cozy at some of the belays.
After rapping the route with TWO ropes we set a TR on 'Variation of a Theme', a 10b slab climb, before heading back to Yosemite Lodge to meet up the rest of the gang...
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