Otto Posted May 7, 2011 Posted May 7, 2011 (edited) Trip: Zion - Gentleman's Agreement Date: 4/27/2011 Trip Report: Climb: Zion, Gentleman's Agreement, attempt Date of Climb: 4/27/2011 Trip Report: I was never interested in Zion Nat'l Park until I stopped in with my wife on our tour of the Southwest last year. Eyes popping, I vowed to return soon and climb one of those big sand walls. DavidW had mentioned Gentleman's Agreement in passing, how he'd wanted to climb it for ten years now. So Judy and I drove up to the end of the road and looked at it. Nice. I took a shot which stood on the mantel in my living room through the Winter, waiting for me to commit. Commit we did, in late Winter, plane seats were found, gear was borrowed and a road trip was born. A perfect plan with Significant Others was sealed, visions of one or two nights in a portaledge lifted spirits through the miserable Seattle Spring of 2011. Then my wife got a job and bailed, no big deal, Jan was still psyched to go. Dave is a lucky man, she even hauled water for us on the approach. It rained the first two days we were there, perfectly allowing us to gear up, buy food and get organized. Two trips up the wall with all the gear. No real need to trim down, we wanted to be comfortable and have a good time. Strangely, I forgot to fill the flask with the Makers but we had a pint of good Tequila. Still, the pig was around 65 lbs. The route is on the left Mary, the left of the three peaks in the Sun. Route is up the sun/shade margin, first dihedral. I took a series of shots landscape mode, from bottom to top slightly overlapping, in ten shots, but the top ones are fuzzy dammit, sorry. It was gonna be cool. Anyway, here's a couple of the first pitch, all we did. David wasn't feeling up to it so we bailed. Later we did Ashtar Command as a consolation. It was fun, but not like topping out on a big wall. Nobody guarantees success every time, that's just mountaineering. Oh dear, succumbing to trite aphorism. Blast. Gear Notes: We went big. Three #6, three #5, three #4 Camalots. Double of everything else. Approach Notes: An hour and a half up, each time. Edited May 7, 2011 by Otto Quote
chirp Posted May 8, 2011 Posted May 8, 2011 Grats on getting down there and having some fun, sorry it didn't work out Quote
genepires Posted May 8, 2011 Posted May 8, 2011 9 huge cams in the rack of doubles. amazing you got off the ground with that much aluminum. Quote
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