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Yosemite, Again!

November 26th, 2023
This was a trip of checking out new boulders, thanks to the climbs we had intended to get on being wet upon arrival. New boulders can be very addicting! Check out this gem I found, Bionic Traverse, v5!
Squirrel, v7
Pocket Rocket, v2
Orange Fever, v7
A Thanksgiving day route climb with Yosemite friends
Jamcrack, 5.7
More Jamcrack
No Thanksgiving dinner until everyone sends The Presidential Traverse, v0
And thankfully everyone did! First try!!
Hiking day rest day
Glacier Point
An expertly brewed cup of coffee on a bitterly cold morning at the boulders. Not sure if life really gets any better than this.
Kevin’s Traverse, v0. One of our fav’s
Ah, can’t quite get enough of this place

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Out of the shop

November 18th, 2023

7 weeks and 1 day later, we’ve got our baby back.

En route to some fun

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More Valley Boulders and Fun

October 22nd, 2023
Little Rosa crushes Unnamed Slab, v0!
Will need to return to Blue Suede Shoes, V5
…as well as The Hexentric, v7 for Grit and Manu

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Girls Just Want to Have Fun…too

October 22nd, 2023

I will be the first to admit that the boys’ adventure up Mt. Lemmon made me SUPER jealous. DOUBLE SUPER jealous even, because about a month ago we supported our buddy John in the Imogene Pass Run in Colorado, moral support, not physical. I wanted to run something too! I was suffering from a bad bad case of ROMO. Reality Of Missing Out (yep, made that one up. Much more severe than FOMO).

Well, I think I barely finished my sentence to Grit in throwing out there a little running adventure idea of our own before she was jumping up and down and we were hugging. Oh my goodness yes! Let’s run Tuolumne to the Valley! 17 miles! Up and over Clouds Rest! We’re doing it! And bonus idea by Grit herself: let’s have the boys run back up to fetch the car. Brilliant! Dang I love this gal.

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Yosemite Valley Bouldering!

October 22nd, 2023
Unnamed Face, v2
The Angler, v3
Root Canal, v7
Diesel Power, v10
Mr. Pink Eyes, v0

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Birthday Boys

October 22nd, 2023

15 years ago and exactly one year before Silas was born, we celebrated Manu’s birthday with a hike up to Piute Pass fueled by Schat’s Bakery’s pullaway bread. This birthday celebration shared similar themes. Silas and Manu started the day opening presents in a lovely campground outside Bishop near the Buttermilk Boulders. We tore down camp, headed into town for gas, water and a mechanic to help figure out why the tire on our behemoth kept losing air. Next was a stop at Schat’s for pullaway bread, which Manu very heroically waited to tear into while we drove north and then west into Yosemite National Park via Tuolumne Meadows. The pullaway was devoured at Tenaya Lake. We then meandered our way down to The Valley, set up camp in Upper Pines, and then hiked over to Curry for pizza and beer. Too stuffed and tired, we decided to save the cake for breakfast the next morning.

Yes, the “hike” for pizza wasn’t quite on par with Piute Pass, but just you wait. More hiking (and then some!) to come on this trip… 😉

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Solar Eclipse in an Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest

October 22nd, 2023

East side of the Sierra Nevadas, California.

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No van, no worries!

October 22nd, 2023

Van is in the shop for waaaaay longer than expected. The trip must go on!!!

SO embarrassing
But on the bright side…
will fit 4 people, 4 crashpads, a week’s worth of food and clothes, and all our totally not-optimized-for-car-camping camping gear (dumped directly from the van into this behemoth less than 12 hours before departure)

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2022 Send Reel

January 11th, 2023

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The Ones That Got Away

November 27th, 2022

Our amazing Yosemite trip has come to its finish. All four of us squeezed in one last good quality send of T-Rex, V3, with Ivan amazing us all with his unique beta on the opening move: go with the left hand??? Whaaaat?!!

All else will have to wait until next trip:

After waiting a week and a half for this massive boulder to dry out, Paul finally climbed through the crux of Diesel Power, V10, but was too destroyed to commit to the top out.
The insanely small right hand crimp on Pride, V9 only allows a few go’s before it cuts your fingertips. And Paul did not send in a few go’s.
Progress on Bruce Lee, V8 was zilch.
The classic Unnamed Fin, V2 at The Ahwahnee Boulders is still impossibly hard.
As is Alobar, V2

It’s good to have problems to come back for. I mean, how sad would it be to climb-out The Valley?! 😉

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