Saturday November 9th dawned bright and early, and we beat Mr. Sun to it. Bryan's highschool track buddy Jacob, his girlfriend and her coworker, met up at our house and we zipped off in the Subaru to Vantage WA. Just over the mountains, 2 hours each, the rainy wet coast turns into a desert. Near where Creation Fest is held at The Gorge, is an awesome area called Frenchman's Coulee which is an incredible climbing area.
I was debating going because I'd been coughing and sick for almost a week but I was feeling a bit better and decided to go.
We got there around 9am and started off at The Feathers with a warmup 5'4 and 5'6. I haven't climbed in ages so I thought I'd be super nervous, but a 5'6 is so easy that I even cleaned up at the top and remembered pretty well how to clip in, untie myself, reset the anchor into the chains and lower down. It was so fun in fact, that I then tried at 5'8. With a few rest breaks, I made it to the top of that one too, so that was fun.
The rest of the day I belayed Bryan on the sunshine wall and watched Anna's coworker Karin float up the basalt pillars. Bryan and Jacob did well too.
All in all a beautiful day and powered by Top Pot doughnuts (thanks Anna) so what could be better?
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