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2018-06-19 12:34 am
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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.

Snowy mountain with a grassy meadow in foreground
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2017-11-29 11:44 pm
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Mt Dana Disaster Weekend

Yosemite - Mt Dana Disaster Weekend
July 13-16, 2017

Me standing on the summit of Mt Dana

Let’s just get one very important lesson out of the way: Never count on what you can’t control.

What was supposed to be a fun, relaxed group trip to Yosemite turned out to be a series of mistakes that ended up being not-quite-an-epic with an entirely different group. I should probably have done more to find a group that wanted to do the trip I was intending, but Ryan said he’d ask his hiking group buddies, and then neglected to get back to me. I assumed that as many people would go as could fit it into their schedules, given the popularity of the permits, and didn’t worry too much about having anyone to go with. What Ryan ended up doing was not asking hiking buddies, but instead asking his climber coworkers, who are above measly cables. That wouldn’t have been a problem if I’d gotten earlier confirmation of who was going to be climbing and who wanted to hike. As the “planning” (mostly lack thereof) continued, it seemed like Ryan was leaning heavily toward a preference for climbing with everyone else, leaving me hiking alone. When I left, we still hadn’t planned the details of whether or not he was hiking with me, and if so, for what portions of the trail.

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