Day 6 - Monday May 14 - Family Night

With Stacy out of town it was easy to make the decision to climb when Mike Schultz called me after work this evening. I wanted to recreate in some way tonight, and I was leaning toward going for a good ol' fashioned bike ride, but then I got the call from Mike to join him. We went up Little Cottonwood Canyon to Crescent Crack. This is a three pitch 5.7. This was by far the highest I have ever climbed off the ground. We were at least 80 meters above where we started (I say meters because I am obtaining this information from the length of the rope we were using). This would put us nearly 300 ft. up! It was a fun climb. Mike wanted me to trad lead the second pitch, but I was hesitant so he just went ahead and linked the first and second pitches together. The third pitch starts with a 5.7 off width where the crack is too big to really crack climb, yet too small to chimney climb. Basically I ended up jamming my body into this awkwardly sized crack and wiggling my way upward. It was rather enjoyable. I did get spooked a couple of times when I would see how far we had gone, but I would simply put that thought to the side and continue onward. You never know, I may just become a decent climber some day.