February 11-14th
Lea and I drove up after work to my buddies Ryan's place in Scottsdale, arrived at 3am, brushed out teeth and crashed. We woke up to beautiful weather and decided to climb in Phoenix for the day.
Day 1:
We hiked into the Superstition Mountains to do a climb that was highly rated in the guidebook.
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| Baddass and Ready to Roll |
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| Squeeze and Chimney equal fun! |
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| Not so stellar bolts atop pitch 2 |
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| Lea Squeezing Through the final slot |
Day 2:
We drove into Cochise Stronghold in southeastern Arizona and arrived in night in time to set up camp. We got up early and hike out to What's My Line 5.6 AO R. It was sunny out by winds were 30 MPH, which meant that the runout 5.6 pitch would have a little flavor. It was super fun, super windy and a super cool line!
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| Shot the next day of two climbers on route |
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| Beta Shot. Here is the route! Such a nice line |
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| Lea following run out 5.6. 30 mph winds and one piece of pro in 150 feet kept me on my toes |
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| Smiles all the way |
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| Me following the next pitch |
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| Lea was smart: weighted the sling so it wouldn't blow away |
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| Bomber anchor! |
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| Windy Summit Summit Video |
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| The Hike Back |
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| Dinner Time |
Dinner Time Video
The weather looked good, so we decided to head over to do Endgame 5.10a. I got off route into some 5.11c territory and had to lower off to repeat the stellar first pitch. We climbed pitch after pitch of exposed amazing and thought provoking sections. We topped out with high winds with huge smiles!
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| There's End Pinnacle on the Rockafellas |
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| Lea on pitch 1 of Endgame |
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| Time to fuel up |
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| Beta Photo of P3, We were having too much fun to take pic |
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| Summit! |
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| Rope was too short, so had to do a beaner block to rap |
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| Dinner Time...Carne Asada |
Day 4:
The weather was poor, so we headed over to Tombstone for some history and some tourism.
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| The Town Too Tough To Die |
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| The site at OK Corral of the infamous gunfight |
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| Victims of the gunfight |
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