Caffienated, I start driving at 3am.
The MP3 player has Joni Mitchel singing "A prisoner of the white lines on the freeway"
The plan is to meet the Albany crew at Canon and climb Moby Grape (Mark and I) and Whitney Gilman (Andrew and Nick).
By the time we hit the trail at 6am, there are two parties ahead of us. So much for not climbing under another party at Canon.
Moby Grape has 3 fantastic pitches:
- P1 "Reppy's Crack" - a splitter that would be more at home in Yosemite than the fabled cracks of Yosemite.
- P3 "Triangular Roof pitch" - the roof move is quite a crank
- P4 "Fickle Finger of Fate" - which we avoided by climbing a corner to its right.
Next couple of pitches are grassy and wander quite a bit - the crux is probably figuring where to go from the grassy ledge. Thankfully the party ahead of us (Bill and Doug) figured out where this pitch went. Then a interesting connect the dots rope-stretcher took us to the top. I think we did the route in ~ 7 pitches.
Here is the summit shot thanks to Bill Neacy
The descent could have been a bitch but we met up with some people who were very familiar with the walk off, which almost felt like it would become a fly-off.
In addition to the list of 3 good things about Moby Grape should be added
Here is the summit shot thanks to Bill Neacy
The descent could have been a bitch but we met up with some people who were very familiar with the walk off, which almost felt like it would become a fly-off.
In addition to the list of 3 good things about Moby Grape should be added
- A swim in Profile Lake.
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