[TR] Vantage - Middle East Wall (Middle Section)- Sex Party, 272, Thin and Curvy, Thereseas Lingerie 3/21/2005

[catbirdseat]

Climb: Vantage - Middle East Wall (Middle Section)-Sex Party, 272, Thin and Curvy, Thereseas Lingerie

 

Date of Climb: 3/20/2005

 

Trip Report:

Left Seattle with Martin_Cash at 6:30 am in rain and arrived at the Coulee in cloudy but dry conditions. Recent rain made the trails muddy and slippery. I fell and injured my hand before we even got on a route.

 

Climbed all morning at Middle East Wall, my first time there, without seeing another party. Conditions were cool but windless- perfect for climbing. Rain held off all day.

 

Had a very enjoyable day. Around 2 pm we started seeing some refugees from Leavenworth, where it was very damp. Of course, the first thing they did was complain about the "chossy rock".

 

Gear Notes:

Medium to Large nuts, an occasional medium hex, Friends from 1" to 3", an occasional larger Zero Cam.

Edited March 21, 2005 by catbirdseat

[Dru]

Today is 3/21. How is it you are posting a trip report for today containing reference to 2PM at 9 AM? Did you buy some of those time machine crystals off the Internet?

[MCash]

We climbed yesterday 3/20. One correction, the fingercrack we climbed is Slim and Curvy 5.10B, not Thin and Curvy. Good stuff, I'll post a couple photos tonight.

[MCash]

Sex Party

 

 

Slim and Curvy

 

[catbirdseat]

I think I was cheating on Slim and Curvy by using stemming across to the Wide and Curvy side, but I had to because I'm not really a 5.10b climber.

[cman]

If you can reach it it's in, vantage is not the gym after all, or i guess it is kind of like the gym, so in that case stop cheating.

[MCash]

Option #1 - Climb basalt cracks in 60 degree weather and partial sunshine.

 

Option #2 - Drive to any other Washington Crag and watch it rain, then drive home and clean the cat litter box and scrub the toilet.

 

Option #1 seamed like the way to go.