Yosemite - Clouds Rest (Again) & Royal Arches

Yosemite Valley

May 10-12, 2019

I’d like to think I’ve finally learned my lesson about using Tinder to find climbing partners, but I’ll probably do it again at some point. After asking multiple times to make sure he really didn’t have any other partners he could possibly employ for the task, I agreed to attempt Royal Arches and Crest Jewel Direct in a day with Austin - 30 pitches for his 30th birthday. The thing about CJD is it’s 10d slab. I wasn’t sure if he climbed 10d slab, but having failed to get past the crux of a 10a slab (outside of the Valley) on a toprope last summer, I was sure I didn’t.

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