08_11 to 19_2012 Reno and Tuolumne Meadows Part I

This friggin' software. It now loads all photos in a gigantic size. This requires I go into the code for every single photo and resize it. It's newest trick is to center justify the photos. So I get to change that for each photo too. And it has ceased wrapping text. Not sure how to make that happen again. Ugh. *may have fixed it...nope, not fixed*

A recent trip was a bit more than a week out west. We flew to Reno, then after a few days, we headed to Tuolumne Meadows aka the Granite Planet. Lots of climbing and socializing was in store for us! We landed at Reno Airport where they had some cut out thingies. Dave couldn't resist this beautiful outfit so he stuck his face in the hole. Very funny!

Our first order of business was getting a rental car. I guess Enterprise has better rates than everyone else in Reno. There was a line. And some not-to-be hurried attendants. Dave caught a little sleep while waiting.  (Okay, why is is now wrapping?)

We headed over to our friend Aaron Silverman's house. We dropped our bags, grabbed our climbing stuff and headed to Donner Summit. Yes, Donner as in "Donner, party of four...Donner, party of four."  This is the site of that event.  Quite a beautiful view from the climbing - this is Donner Lake shown.

We arrived just as a fallen climber was being hauled out. He fell 30 feet and landed straight on his back. Those who witnessed it say his back was broken. Later word confirmed that he was okay! How he didn't do himself in is just a mystery.

The crew held back on the road as they hauled the injured guy out. We didn't want to be in the way. And honestly, none of us wanted to see up close the carnage. :/

Aside from Silver, our friends Shack, Mark Miller and others joined us...

Once it was clear, we hiked up to the left side of the Snowshed area. The views got even better up here!

And the climbing commenced. Dave immediately found a brand-new cam abandoned by a previous climber. It is his 80th bootied cam! What is that? About $5,000 in found gear?

There were no biting insects around the wall...just Dave. :)

He led up and onsighted all sorts of great climbs. Really fun time!

Some of our friends - Kovar, Shack, Climbski2 and is that Mark Miller back there?

Here I am climbing some beastly crack. I found a way to do a fair amount of lay-backing as well.

More climbing as Shack heads up something fun.

This guy, Hans, is a local. He warmed up on this arete climb. Made it look so easy. I tried later (see below) and about had my arm pulled off my body. It's a very burly climb!

Climbski2 hanging out between routes...

Mark Miller watches others climb between his attempts.

Local climber Max belays Hans. We ran into Max later in Tuolumne as well.

Aaron heads up some crack....

Here is one of my attempts on the burly thing. I made it to the high point in the shallow crack I'm on before melting off. A week later, my shoulder is still a bit angry with me for that move!




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