Pow Pow in the Sads, Miles brushing and Jared watching
A very windy Milks
My awesome photo of Lisa on the start to High Plains
Man hunting dinner, hell yeah!
The Tableland...This past week has been a blurr, either from sand passing us by in the milks, or the rays of sun blinding us in the Sads. This was not the ideal intro to Bishop trip I had perceived for Lisa. After a quick stop at the MAC in Portlandia to round up Lisa and her bags, Kevin, Lisa and myself headed out on our journey south in the spacious Pilot. Once we arrived at 3am, we got as much sleep as possible and then headed out to the sads for a return to the Ice Caves. After some fun warm ups we headed straight to Strength in Numbers, and excellent highballish V5 I'd previously wanted to try. After a pumpy flash Kevin and Lisa got to work and both dispatched! In the caves it was back to work and Aquatic Hitchiker(V10) went down in a couple goes once I found the proper start. Later on in the day Morgan and his crew of misfits joined us in the tablelands.
Monday we headed up to the milks for what would be the last time and Kevin and Lisa got on Fly Boy Sit(V8) and both came painfully close to sending, literally, since the thing is sharp! Next up we sessioned Stained Glass(v10) and worked our way to the middle, yeah for crimpers!
Tuesday was, well, HOT! we began by making it all the way to Bishop Creek and tanning by the waters edge until Jared and Miles joined the posse.
Wednsday was I think dedicated to the Sads and I made some progress on Beefcake, trying to relearn my beta for Beefy Geko(V11). Then a miracle happened and everything fell into place and Beefy Geko went!!!!!!!! 3 days of effort on this one
Thursday was my unofficial rest day. We drive all the way out to the happy's and relize that the wind blowing our pads around is not as fun as sitting in the sun so Lisa, Miles, Jared and I all migrate over to the Happies. Lisa had a good day of projecting the Hulk(V6) and crushing while I laid on my Mamutte tripple and tanned for a couple hours. I did managed a climb for the day though, an inspiring little overhanging fridge called Highbrow(V8). After stalling at the crux I decided I couldn't cut my heel to bail so I desperately squeezed my way to the top for the flash! Scarrrry!
Friday was a simmiliar stroy in the Milks but Miles and I made some -3 star classic FA's on the back side of the womb boulder(our wind Block). Once again we bailed and headed the the Sads where I came close to sending Aqarium, the V12 top out to Aquatic Hitchiker. Lisa came close to Pow Pow but by then our tanks were on empty.
The drive back consitted of snow and took a lot longer than expected but we eventually made it back. Now it is time to train the crimp strength and soon the enduro...
