I got to the valley early Friday afternoon and conditions were ideal. i got on the sit down start for honor among thieves right away and after two decent attempts i sent it on the third try. what a great problem.
Saturday i met up with matt and laura and we went over to the crystals to check out this really cool problem that matt is in the process of cleaning. i was wandering around and found two new problems. one is an easy but fun rail traverse that goes up and left; the other problem ("fold your pad") is on the blunt arete of the same boulder. it starts fairly high on the arete and a crappy crimp. it goes at around V5/6 and i think there is potential for a hard sit start. I met up with ben pope in the early afternoon in camp 4 and he showed me bachar cracker (the hardest V3 i've ever done). Ben almost got the sds of honor among thieves and did manage to repeat king cobra. We then met up with tim and scott up at some new problems up above bear hug mantle. I managed to snag the FA of a really cool overhanging prow that tim and scott had cleaned. it is called Sonic Wave (aka Fuck My Right Bicep) (V7/8). Ben got the second accent.
Sunday matt and laura and i hiked to top of vernal falls via the CLOSED mist trail and descended via the long way around. that is such a great hike but it kills my legs.
Fun was had by all and it was one of those weekends which is hard to top.
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