Climbing is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off

Tuolumne June 16-17, 2018

After finding out that Ben had never been to Tuolumne because he moved to the Bay Area after 120 closed last fall, I suggested a trip there; he agreed and proposed a trip to do Echo Peaks, then created a route with a loop traverse of several things in the Cathedral Range. I deemed this acceptable as long as we got to make a detour to Elizabeth Lake – I’ve been meaning to get there for 2 years now and hadn’t made it yet. We left Sunnyvale at 8, got stuck in traffic anyway, and made it to Hardin Flat Road at 12:30. We woke up to the 5:30 alarm the next morning and drove the rest of the way to the Cathedral Lakes Trailhead where we had breakfast and got our gear organized. We’d previously discussed taking ropes and harnesses along for the more technical Echo Peaks, but decided to leave that behind and just scramble whatever we felt comfortable with. I was expecting a lot of me telling him to go on ahead because he was way more comfortable than I was, but there was only one thing during the whole day that I couldn’t do the same way he did.

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