Climbing!

I am going out of order here and I definitely need to write about Luke and Lizzy's wedding / our seattle trip but I don't have enough time so I will write about last weekend instead (shorter post).

Josh really wanted to get in some climbing on Saturday, so I sort of bitterly got dragged along to Keller Peak. It was too hot to climb. I don't like climbing when its hot. And especially not when I am tired and lethargic feeling. So of course we went anyway.

After I started climbing it was okay, as usual. But the first route we did was too hot. So I made Josh wait at the belay while I took photos. Knee bars are useful for two hand photo taking while on route.

And the resulting photo (clearly I was only semi-interested in climbing and was trying to make it more fun in the stupid hot sun that was making my feet burn in my shoes, someone should invent white desert climbing shoe rubber).

We got stuck after the first "pitch" and couldn't figure out where to go so we climbed down through a hole into a cave and then walked down the hill.

It was too hot to climb in the sun so we went on a search for shade, and finally got some sort of successful single pitch climbing in.

Josh worked on a very very reachy route (we didn't have a guidebook, or more accurately we didn't bring the guidebook) which was cool to watch, although I would never ever want to lead it because its bolted for someone taller than 6 feet. If its reachy (like really reachy) for Josh, that's not a good sign for most other people.

I was did a route that was harder than I expected and was sad. But eventually I made it to the top. By then we sort of gave up on hot desert climbing, and instead decided to put all the cams in the same ground level crack. Josh required them to all be good cam placements. We decided that meant our day was successful after all.

Sorry all the picture except one are of me. Josh's climbing was either out of sight of his belayer (me) or climbing things too scary to take photos of while I was belaying. Oh wait here is one more I found (when I got there he said: "this is how not to build an anchor." thanks josh).

When we got back I insisted I get to swim in the no tresspassing and no swimming but very pretty lake nearby, although I didn't know that until I hiked down to it while Josh sat at the car eating food. I jumped in and out really fast and then we walked back to the car to drive back to LA. At least we got out and climbed. Time to get used to summer heat. Or just start surfing more.