And to celebrate, Rich and I went out to the Chapel Pond Slab (some 800 feet tall granite boulder). We did two highballs there. The first was Empress 5.5, 835 feet and the second was The Regular Route 5.5 765 feet. Making a total of 1610 feet of technical rock climbing in a day. By far the most I've ever done. And the climbing up part of it probably took a grand total of 30 minutes (the climbing down was the hardest part!)
We also learned the descents today. We decided to try both the northern gully and the southern. We went down the southern first -- which was sopping wet, technical and manky. That's why we decided to try both. We met a friend of Colin's at the top of the cliff (Bill) after the second lap, and he advised us on the northern decent, which was way better.
What an awesome piece of granite. Woo hoo!
After that we went to PJ's for some twofer's and had ourselves some celebration brew.
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