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Dirka
Trad climber
SF
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Topic Author's Original Post - Feb 1, 2009 - 12:37am PT
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Day 4 (January 3):
Dirka, the King of Breakfast, and the Grand Pappy Hatchy.
Drika was glad to finally get in some real climbing, even if it was just Beginner’s Two (5.2) and the Bong (5.4). We don’t have any pictures of that one because Dirka was up at the top freezing as he belayed me which took an extra long time because there were like 12 people watching me and I got all nervous.
That night, it hailed. Of course, it ended up not being that cold that night after it stopped hailing.
Day 5 (January 4):
Day 5 was FREEZING so we decided to do a couple more hikes.
We started the day with the 1.7-mile (round-trip) hike to Skull Rock from our campsite…
…followed by the 4.5-mile hike up Ryan Mountain.
The summit of Ryan Mountain, a.k.a. “Das Mountain.”
Dirka leaving his mark on the true summit of “Das Mountain.”
About a minute after this picture was taken, I slipped and fell. I landed funny on my hand and hurt my finger. My first thought was, “Oh crap, I won’t be able to climb anymore.” Dirka said that when I fell his first thought was, “Oh crap, she hurt her ankle and now I have to carry her down the mountain,” and his second, once I said it was my finger, was, “Oh no, she won’t be able to climb!”
Dirka’s first aid on my hand. Interestingly enough, this is better care than I got at Kaiser when I got back… which might be why my finger still hurts 27 days later.
It was cold that night…
Day 6 (January 5):
…so cold that the olive oil froze!
Breakfast is very serious.
Since I couldn’t climb, we decided to do the 7.5-mile hike to the Lost Palms Oasis.
I want to take this moment to point out that Dirka is wearing the SAME black shirt here that he’d been wearing since January 1.
Dirka really wants to kick one of these, but he resisted.
Day 7 (January 6):
“Strong like bull!”
Since we had a bit of time before we had to leave, we did a short hike out to this damn.
Then I took pictures of Dirka doing some bouldering in the area.
I had a great time (this being my first time there and all) and we’re already planning to go back next year! Hopefully my finger will heal by then and we’ll have more climbing photos next time…
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Porkchop_express
Trad climber
thats what she said...
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that looks super. hope your finger recovers on the soon side...thanks for sharing the pics.
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MisterE
Trad climber
One Place or Another
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Nice! was out at the "damn" (LOL) last week and the water was low enough to make the traverse interesting.
Thanks for posting up!
Erik
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Captain...or Skully
Social climber
North of the Owyhees
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Good shtuff, you two...Gracias for cool pics.
Hey, breakfast IS serious business......
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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bump for hiking camping climbing!
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Jaybro
Social climber
wuz real!
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Nice shots looks like fun
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Lissiehoya
climber
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Yeah, I really want the finger to heal too. I'm thinking about going back to Kaiser, but I don't want to pay another copay for this since the last visit was such a complete waste of my money...
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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A happy-lookin' couple out of doors -- all you need for a cheerful TR. Thanks!
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