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Summary
Pitch 1 of the Regular Route.
I’d like to say that sometimes a good ass kicking is a positive thing…but I think that is only true when you’re the giver. For the recipient that statement is unequivocally horseshit. With that in mind, it was a fine Sunday for the little Regular Route on Careno Crag. What can I say? That little 4 pitch fucker was hard for us. To be more specific, pitches 2 and 3 were fun but the pitches that are the route were less fun. In fact, pitch 4 was not completed by somebody as that somebody had commitment issues for the moves above the discontinuous cracks (& gear). Somebody forgot their lucky shirt or perhaps their nuts…
PS see our friends’ site for how the last pitch ought to be done:
Eric & Lucie
Photos
Leading the first (hard for us…and how you say, not so clean) pitch 1 of Regular Route on Careno Crag (July 2012).
Past the opening crux of pitch 1 of Regular Route…but the bolted face was hard too (July 2012).
Leading pitch 1 of the Regular Route on Careno Crag (July 2012).
Shirley seconding pitch 1 of the Regular Route. This is the start of the short bolted face section of the pitch (July 2012).
Shirley topping out on pitch 1. Every belay is on a very large ledge (July 2012).
Shirley leading the nice pitch 2 of Regular Route (July 2012).
Nice dihedral of pitch 2 of Regular Route (July 2012).
Leading pitch 3 of Regular Route – nice easy climbing with a tricky exit move (July 2012).
Looking back towards Shirley belaying me from the huge ledge atop pitch 2 of Regular Route (July 2012).
The view up Snow Creek Valley from “high” on Careno Crag. The backside of Snow Creek Wall is on the right (July 2012).
Shirley topping out on pitch 3 (July 2012).
Leading the 4th and final pitch of Regular Route (July 2012).
Getting close to my highpoint on the last pitch 🙂
Shirley hiking down after a nice day of getting our asses kicked on Careno Crag (in background; July 2012).
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