acid baby and solid gold mid-August

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E_$
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acid baby and solid gold mid-August

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a week ago from colchuck lake climbed acid baby on a pillar of enchantment peaks, and solid gold on prusik peak in consecutive days. next time, would link them in one. it was nice to have a chill weekend, though--cragging's supposed to be fun, right?

both climbs feature quite a bit of 10+ climbing (though the FAs have solid gold as 11-) on good to excellent granite. as many of you already know, prusik has yosemite-peer granite in a stellar setting.

my camera is failing, so only got a few shots. a couple of the below are Tim's shots.

acid baby goes up just left of the chasm
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on good rock
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i'm moving so fast tim could barely capture me, but this gives you an idea of the rock near the top; the pinnacle in distance begins a knife-edge traverse
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a body-less rock gnome followed
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d-tail, colchuck pk, and mt stuart from Enchantment summit
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1st pitch of solid gold--prusik's such a great crag
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top of our p. 2 (i ran 2 and 3 together w/ a 70m)
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tim's pics of me leading the sustained crux section of the last pitch - rather thin corner
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i had visions of botching a move and smashing my nethers on the ledge below, touching off an-oh-so-cliche 12-mile injured forced march, but that didn't come to pass. but i thought of you anyway, casey.

great times, so much good climbing in those parts!

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Re: acid baby and solid gold mid-August

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Those look like great routes, with classic Washington double-your-hike steeze.

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Rock looks real nice. Prusik is quite nice. Solid approach, though.

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Re: acid baby and solid gold mid-August

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Looks like super cool climbing and amazing views. I'll get my first taster of alpine climbing next week, but we won't do the 12 mile hike + climbing in a day.

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