So anyways, Katie came in on friday, and we just kind of chilled. It was just me, Matt and Katie in the house on friday (everyone else came on Saturday), so we just kind of chilled. But we made some sweet plans to go to the cliff on saturday morning. Unfortunately, the weather didn't really want to cooperate. But, luckily, the cliff seems to dry out pretty quickly, and even though it rained until like 9 or 10, we were able to get up to the cliff around noon and start climbing.
We had some great plans to get on a climb called Sixish, but the cliff was more crowded than I have ever seen. There were a bunch of morons all over the place hiking around on closed trails and just doing stupid things. But, c'est la vie. After looking for a while for a climb to do, we decided on doing Wrist, a 5.6 (we had already done the second via Arch). I lead the first pitch, which was really cool, despite there being some loose rock about half way up. The first part has a nice crack that you climb up, and then the second part has a nice off-width crack. Got to place the #4 cam which is pretty exciting.
Katie hadn't really done much climbing before, but she handled the fist pitch like a champ. Matt and I were familiar with the second pitch, which has a big ol' roof in it, and we were fairly confident that Katie could handle it. Matt lead the pitch, and then Katie went up with me close behind her. She got up to the roof and almost pulled the crux on her first try, and then came off. We had a hell of a time getting her back on, but after some creative gear use (she stepped into a sling I put on my rope), she got up there. We got to do a nice long rapp because we had both ropes, which is always exciting.
I had to leave quickly after that to go get Dan and Amber, but Matt and Katie stayed and did Dennis, which they said was pretty good.
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