Yosemite rock climbing
Jason and I did a little climbing last weekend. We drove up to Yosemite on Friday night, camped outside the park at Hard n Flat road, and then drove in early saturday morning to secure a spot at Camp 4. We then climbed some 5.7 / 5.8 starting with After Seven (next to Nutcracker).
After seven:
Corbin halfway up:
The last pitch I led, and I haven’t led in a while. It scared me a bit to do the 5.8 moves, but I made it through. Here I am at the crux:
And a view of the roof after I made it past
We then went to El Cap
And free climbed a little 5.7
Jason, you are off belay, so I can take a picture
Then, we drank some beer, and slept. The next morning I did a 20 mile unicycle ride throughout the valley to do some training. Jason followed some dirt bags to Camp Four wall and scoped some good routes. I led this 5.8 bunch of flakes, and again wasn’t doing so hot on the top:
Jason did the top 5.8 crack, as I wasn’t feeling solid on it. We then topped the side crack:
Jason led the next “dirty pitch” (totally not the right way to go…which should have been an offwidth chimney that I wasn’t about to do). At the top, we decided to rap down instead of doing the solid 5.8 crack as seen in the middle of this photo:
It was a great weekend of climbing and a little uni training for RTL. (ride the lobster).
Hey, looks like some tough climbing