Another nice view of some of the canyon and Dave
That is a photo of Hound Dog wall. You can see the guy named Kimball about dead center. Beautiful climber.
Maybe a little easier to see Kimball now? Bright green shirt?
The next day out climbing, we headed out the Lake Pointe. Neither of us had been there before. It has rained a bit and it looked sort of threatening but he headed out anyway.
Dave was ready with the stick clip. Seems like we never used it except to clip Dave's ear.
More hiking...
On the first climb it started raining. Not fun.
And it started raining hard. Everything got wet. Boo.
So back to the camper to entertain ourselves for a rain day. Fortunately the cat was feeling well and entertained Dave for a while.
So, about 4-5 years ago, my family sent Dave a weather station. We've had it in the pile of 'things to do' but we JUST got around to getting it in the camper and setting it up. Too bad it took us forever since it was great fun! Note the excellent forecast...rain rain rain and even some evening snow (it never snowed).
At least Rufous was happy.
An the cat started ignoring us during the night which is a sign she is feeling better.
We got out the last day...and although the forecast wasn't totally solid, the day was. We ended up going someplace I already can't recall. :/ Fun climbs though. This place had some really good climbs.
Yet another canyon view. Are you sick of them yet?
Putting on shoes
Climbing...
I'm up a climb too.
This about sums it up - great canyon, shoes, rope tarp, clip stick and a guide book by a clearly insane person.
We managed to climb a fair amount this day.
As we sat at the base of one climb, a rat peeked his head out of a hueco above Dave's head! Cute little thing!
Dave headed up the route careful not to put his hand in the hold.
See the mouse sticking his head out of the hole near the bottom center of this photo. Pretty funny!
Then Dave found sounds cracks to climb.
So he climbed them.
Two cracks plus a challenging 11b extension (which he's on in the photo). By the end of this, we'd fed enough mosquitoes and were ready to head back.
We needed to get the camper set up because we planned to leave early in the morning.
Great trip and certainly a contender for fifth wheel destinations.
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