Camp and climb

Had a lovely weekend. Friday night we headed out to Fort Ebey for a night. In the morning, we casually headed up to Mt. Erie to check out the climbing. For a first experience, it was terrible. The guide was poorly done, the trails are tretcherous, and the other climbers were very unhelpful. The view on the other hand ... amazing. We hiked around trying to find a way down so we could climb but finally decided that the approach just wasn't worth the effort.

Instead, we decided to head south to Exit 38, where we went to Deception crag. This was nice. We got there around two in the afternoon, and walked up to a nice "easy" 5.6 climb. I quote easy because at the third bolt there is nothing to hold, and the rock is slick as snot. It was next to impossible to get a good smear to make the move.

Sara had some "climbers constipation" and strugged. It was kinda weird. Sara usually powers through problems like there is nothing to it. I finished the 5.6 lead, and then continued onto the 5.7 right next to the first on top rope.

We went and stayed with Sara's aunt and uncle who only live 25 minutes away. That was nice. We don't usually drink but we got all toasted and had a wonderful meal of salmon and corn.

The next morning we did some toproping in the shade, and had a nice crack climb using the man-made structure. In the afternoon, we meandered onto other climbs. I did my first rappel which is just fantastic. I love to rappel.

So now sara and I have refined our camp and climb experience, we are really looking forward to the next two weeks. This will be an amazing trip east to Montana, South through Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico, then north through Utah, and lower Idaho, back home. We have lots of camping, and climbing planned. And lots of hiking. Hana will be whoopped.

I am really looking forward to no alarms.