She describes her 10 day climb last July of Mescalito on El Cap with the “love of her life” here. Some highlights, to me, of her report:
- We filled a haul bag full of 66 King Cobras and bro ught along 13 gallons of water.
- I had heard stories about married couples getting divorces after topping out on a wall, the stories about grown men crying for their mommy’s, the ones who wanted to bail after one pitch up... I didn’t want to be one of “the ones” who bailed after one pitch because I was too scared or too tired.
- There is no privacy on a wall. You have to shed off all your dignity at the base and leave it piled up behind.
- Thank god it was dark as I was 3000 feet off the deck free climbing in my approach shoes. I was in my 15-foot illuminated bubble produced by my headlamp, which is sometimes a great benefit of night climbing on sketchier sections/maneuvers.
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