Trip: Smith Rocks - Monkey Face/Zebra Zion/etc
Date: 3/11/2007
Trip Report:
it was a dark and stormy night, so i went to smith rocks with jeff hansel to find out how out what kind shape i am in after doing nothing all winter. we listened to jonathan winters and the repoman soundtrack. we decided to take a shortcut and got lost, so we went braffing in my car.
it was rainy the first day so we drove up to mt. bachelor and drank. when we got back from bachelor the sun came out long enough for us to get a few pitches in. then we drove back to bend and partied with timm@y till the early morn. then we went out to monkey face and we met corvallisclimb and a friend who were climbing the c2 route to the right of just do it. jeff and i climbed the bolt ladder with aiders made from dental floss (mammut slings). then jeff lead the last pitch, climbing the lesser climbed traverse to the right from the monkey mouth. i managed to unclip and then get pumped on the rad 5.8 choss so i downclimbed rather than fall. then i ended up too low and then i came off trying to get back up and ended up dangling over just do it. so i had to climb up that, but lucky for me there was a jug one move up and then i was able to get back up to the route and finish it. then we did the single rope rappel, with jeff swinging into the monkey mouth so we could rapple from the anchors there. fun.
the next day we climbed zebra/zion. that is pretty fun. i sucked at the little roof there on the first pitch, but we made it up in good time. it got hot. we met a pandora back at the base, who had driven down for a one day climbing session. core. anyway i'm not in great shape, but it was some good exercise.
on the way back we admired the fins on the back of rice burning cars and people who drive slow in the "fast" lane.
here are some pictures to compliment the 5 brazillion pictures of smith that are already on teh interweb:
Gear Notes:
climbing stuff
Approach Notes:
the weather forecast was suck, but as most people who know smith rocks you should ignore it and go anyways as it will be nice. it only rained a little for part of the first day, the rest of the time is was great...almost too hot on sunday.