Lover's Leap

South Lake Tahoe – June 30-July 1, 2018

How did we make that a cluster? Let me count the ways….

My original idea was to stay home for the weekend. Then it was to make a 5-day weekend with a Monday off, a vacation day, and the 4th of July and go to the Eastern Sierra. Finally I settled on joining Joshua and his partner at Tahoe. After originally planning to be alone Saturday, Joshua told me I was welcome to join them for Surrealistic Pillar and Corrugation Corner. I thought this would be a perfect opportunity to follow fun things as well as assess how much I wanted to lead Corrugation. There’s a general theme in my trip reports of “I thought wrong,” but this trip was a whole new level of thinking wrong. I showed up in the parking lot to find that Mike was a guy much older than I expected. I figured if he was training to do Conness, I was about to get thoroughly shown up by an old dude. We racked up and walked to the trailhead, at which point we realized we needed a second nut tool for the party. Eventually we started up the trail.

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