Daydreams until next time
Our 6th annual November Yosemite Valley trip has finally come to a close and we’re in the van now, driving back to Tucson. Yesterday’s climbing day had the psyche but not the juice to pull off any big sends. No big deal though, as we are all very tired and extremely satisfied. Stats from our stellar trip:
- Days climbed: 10 out of 14
- Days rained out: zero
- Problems sent: too many to count
- Routes climbed: zero, although we did rope up to suss the moves out on a highball boulder problem – Spock Was Here, v6
- Hikes: two big ones and many small ones
- Bike rides: too many to count
- Dinner at the Curry Pizza Deck: twice, exclusively reserved for days of big sends
- Marshmallows cooked over a campfire: a whole bag minus 3
- Dog poop incidents: one, involving Ivan and his bike
- Bear poop incidents: one, involving Silas and his shoe
- Major first aid incidents: only one! Last trip Silas banged the blunt end of an ax on his head, this trip he just peeled off…oh I dunno…5 or 6 layers of skin from his middle finger in a bike crash
- Minor first aid incidents: two. Ivan cheese-grated his face skidding off a slab climb and Paul bit it on the fire ring walking across camp to go pee late at night without a headlamp
- Number of times the kids in the campground didn’t become instant lifelong buddies of our kids: once. This is officially a first! Ivan was told by these two boys that they didn’t want to play with him anymore. He came back to camp all confused and sad. After some prying, I believe it maybe had something to do with these other boys being bigger and older, racing on fancy geared mountain bikes and getting beat by Ivan. Just once or many times? I asked. “All the times.” 😬
- Interesting animal sightings: bear, wolf, heron, deer, ravens, and two bucks with big racks fighting
- Average hours of sleep per night: a blissfully glorious 11. Every. Single. Night.
- Showers: one. With all the climbing, hiking and biking, we couldn’t really find time to ever fit this in
Until next time:
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