Walking w/ Heavy Shit 50:00 [3] 3.0 mi (16:40 / mi) +1700ft 10:51 / mi
shoes: Guides
Approach/descent from Morrison
Climbing: Alpine (Alpine) 5:00:00 [3] 2.0 mi (2:29:59 / mi) +3500ft 56:27 / mi
shoes: Guides
Super hung over after partying with the boulderer bros in Bishop. Just went out thinking I'd scramble up a ridge and chill for a while. Brought crampons and one tool just in case.
Climbed a bit up a couloir and found some ice, so got stoked and kept going. Some good ice, easy mixed scrambling, and some sections of deep wind-drifted snow. Finished out the couloir at a sick exposed notch, and decided to keep going up the chossy ridge.
Also stoked to get some good mental training. One section had an overhanging headwall and the rock was super shitty. Every other hold pulled off and rattled down like 1000ft, fucking terrifying. Definitely don't want to solo anything similar again, way too high risk, but glad to have the experience under my belt of calming down and sending.
More psyched than ever for Denali, definitely thinking the Cassin is doable.