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[TR] North Dome - Crest Jewel 9/13/2007


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Trip: North Dome - Crest Jewel

 

Date: 9/13/2007

 

Trip Report:

 

Ode to Crest Jewel

 

The forest stroll from Porcupine Creek

Allowed our stoke to slowly peak

Anticipating a lucky streak

Up the graceful curve of North Dome

 

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Big John took the first pitch there

Which left the evens as my share

With the dreaded Eighth, a .10a affair

On the slippery stone of North Dome

 

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The scoops and dishes fit our toes

Over not an edge did our fingers close

I looked down the Valley at the Captain's nose

From the high, hot rock of North Dome

 

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We quickly learned a lesson there

To stay off the slippery orange glare

Rather step upon the white patches where

We delicately trod on North Dome

 

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'Twas hot and sunny, but a cooling breeze

Kept our heated soles at ease

As we smeared and scummed and prayed, if you please,

Up the proud broad sweep of North Dome

 

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And by the Eighth we'd got in tune

With the nature of this holdless spoon

As it flowed on past, I knew that soon

We'd be up the wide South face of North Dome

 

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This white and black and orange world

Held me in thrall til my vision whirled

I looked over and saw, like a canvas unfurled,

The stark expanse of Half Dome

 

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So here's to Dan Dingle, a Cascade son

Whose first ascent was boldly won

A Crest Jewel was mined, and shared, for fun

On the fair, clean slope of North Dome

 

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photos by John Medosch

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