{"id":324,"date":"2008-05-12T17:34:12","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T00:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/05\/yosemite-rock-climbing\/"},"modified":"2008-05-12T17:34:12","modified_gmt":"2008-05-13T00:34:12","slug":"yosemite-rock-climbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/yosemite-rock-climbing\/","title":{"rendered":"Yosemite rock climbing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>\n<p>Jason and I did a little climbing last weekend. We drove up to Yosemite on Friday night, camped outside the park at Hard n Flat road, and then drove in early saturday morning to secure a spot at Camp 4. We then climbed some 5.7 \/ 5.8 starting with After Seven (next to Nutcracker).<\/p>\n<p>After seven:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/corbin.dunn\/YosemiteMay2008\/photo#5199651678509923682\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh4.ggpht.com\/corbin.dunn\/SCjfpxVY_WI\/AAAAAAAACnI\/koCDE7mhPxI\/s400\/IMG_8852.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Corbin halfway up:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/corbin.dunn\/YosemiteMay2008\/photo#5199651704279727522\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/corbin.dunn\/SCjfrRVY_aI\/AAAAAAAACno\/E67BIAYHwkg\/s400\/IMG_8868.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The last pitch I led, and I haven&#8217;t led in a while. It scared me a bit to do the 5.8 moves, but I made it through. Here I am at the crux:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/corbin.dunn\/YosemiteMay2008\/photo#5199651712869662130\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh4.ggpht.com\/corbin.dunn\/SCjfrxVY_bI\/AAAAAAAACnw\/UY0uup7HiMM\/s400\/IMG_8872.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And a view of the roof after I made it past<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/corbin.dunn\/YosemiteMay2008\/photo#5199651721459596738\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/corbin.dunn\/SCjfsRVY_cI\/AAAAAAAACn4\/nHiMrOn_EpY\/s400\/IMG_8876.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We then went to El Cap<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/corbin.dunn\/YosemiteMay2008\/photo#5199651777294171682\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/corbin.dunn\/SCjfvhVY_iI\/AAAAAAAACos\/mSWLxTxzux0\/s400\/IMG_8912.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And free climbed a little 5.7<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/corbin.dunn\/YosemiteMay2008\/photo#5199651785884106290\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh5.ggpht.com\/corbin.dunn\/SCjfwBVY_jI\/AAAAAAAACo0\/l8LGjhdO0xE\/s400\/IMG_8917.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/corbin.dunn\/YosemiteMay2008\/photo#5199651794474040898\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/corbin.dunn\/SCjfwhVY_kI\/AAAAAAAACo8\/mcKF9QzZ06M\/s400\/IMG_8918.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jason, you are off belay, so I can take a picture<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/corbin.dunn\/YosemiteMay2008\/photo#5199651837423713938\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh5.ggpht.com\/corbin.dunn\/SCjfzBVY_pI\/AAAAAAAACpk\/d4tH88E5no8\/s400\/IMG_8940.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then, we drank some beer, and slept. The next morning I did a 20 mile unicycle ride throughout the valley to do some training. Jason followed some dirt bags to Camp Four wall and scoped some good routes. I led this 5.8 bunch of flakes, and again wasn&#8217;t doing so hot on the top:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/corbin.dunn\/YosemiteMay2008\/photo#5199651927618027314\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/corbin.dunn\/SCjf4RVY_zI\/AAAAAAAACq4\/MoLTX_CtmFM\/s400\/IMG_9012.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jason did the top 5.8 crack, as I wasn&#8217;t feeling solid on it. We then topped the side crack:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/corbin.dunn\/YosemiteMay2008\/photo#5199651914733125410\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/corbin.dunn\/SCjf3hVY_yI\/AAAAAAAACqw\/PO_QGLkcbHg\/s400\/IMG_9010.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jason led the next &#8220;dirty pitch&#8221; (totally not the right way to go&#8230;which should have been an offwidth chimney that I wasn&#8217;t about to do). At the top, we decided to rap down instead of doing the solid 5.8 crack as seen in the middle of this photo:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/corbin.dunn\/YosemiteMay2008\/photo#5199651992042536898\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh5.ggpht.com\/corbin.dunn\/SCjf8BVY_8I\/AAAAAAAACsE\/0aOf3mnEhT4\/s400\/IMG_9075.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was a great weekend of climbing and a little uni training for RTL. (ride the lobster).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason and I did a little climbing last weekend. We drove up to Yosemite on Friday night, camped outside the park at Hard n Flat road, and then drove in early saturday morning to secure&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/yosemite-rock-climbing\/\">[read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climbing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}