Eastern Sierra Trip

Eastern Sierra Trip - August 11-20, 2018

“Have you written on your blog lately?” “No, I don’t write about everything I do, and nothing I’ve done recently has been all that character-building.” “Well, this might be character-building.” Lani and I were preparing to take on a massive alpine climb, backpacking in the night before to get an early start on the 22-pitch Sun Ribbon Arête on Temple Crag. Well within her ability, this would be twice as long as the longest route I’d done before, although the upper half was supposed to be predominately 4th to low 5th and would go more quickly than the lower portion. Most of the technical pitches go at 5.7 or below, with one crux pitch of 5.9 or 5.10a (depending on which topo you read) that Lani was going to lead.

Spoiler: I summit Bear Creek Spire. ( Read More )