i woulda picked you up!
fence, wtf happened to you???
neversummer and i took iceicebaby for his first trip to index. we did godzilla and toxic shock ... and then we decided he needed to be schooled, so we set him out on the first pitch of the lizard.
anybody else want to hit up index? neversummer and i might be heading out in a bit ... i can drive from seattle. maybe leave around 12:00/12:30. pm me NOW!!!
no, and you don't need to bite my head off. i'm not the queen of anything. i'm just excited to lead. just because i won't go alpine climbing with you doesn't mean you need to be an ass.
woohoo!
i have found that free-soloing gives me a better head when it comes to leading. in free-soloing your focus is on risk assessment (in deciding whether to free solo something in the first place) and then you hyperfocus just on your climbing technique (which includes your mental state) ... because that is all you have keeping you from decking. i find that i am much calmer on the sharp end of a rope afterwards!
i led that this weekend. the crack itself was sweet, but the top out made that the hardest f'ing 5.9 i've ever been on. as e-rock said when he followed my rope up, "5.9 my ass!" (first time i've ever been on a squeeze ledge, too. )