Well, I am back from Yosemite, but not in quite the way I had hoped. I was climbing the Prow on Washington Column with Aaron McMillan (a grad student from Berkeley, student of Weinstein’s) and on our second day I took a fall resulting in a broken ankle and the end of our climbing vacation. If you are interested in the long version you can find the story here.
This tells the tale of my abortive attempt (May 2010) to climb the Prow on Washington Column (V 5.7 C2) with Aaron McMillan. I have wanted to climb this thing ever since I started aid climbing, but despite going up there twice, haven’t yet succeeded. Continue reading
Schooled on the Column
Trip Report, May 31 to June 3, 2007
With Karl “Baba” Bralich – my first excursion into the big-wall world
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