We woke up at 3am and drove strait to camp 4 to line up. Thought that
we would be near the front of the line but I was 28th. Hamish made some
of his great coffee for the folks in front of us and behind us. As a
result, they helped out with our creative camping. Alex and I checked in
and Hamish and Jay just stayed in our tents.
After checking in to camp 4 we headed up part of the nose. It was
fairly strange feeling looking up at the big beast and putting on the
gear.
The first 4 pitches look so much easier on the topo than they are.
Some of the parts marked as 5.9 (17) free climbing might just be 5.10a
with grabbing on the fixed slings. We took a fair while to work out the
pitches and we didn't rush. We had great fun moving across from sickle
ledge to the stove legs with both Hamish and Jay really stretching to
get across to the anchors.
Having only touched a bit on the stove legs, I already understand why
others were telling us to just forget about the first 4 and enjoy what
comes afterwards
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