Well that's a big change in two days. From climbing (some of the day) without a shirt on at 8,000 feet on Tuesday to today: it was 38 degrees when we parked at 7,000 feet.
Cold and foggy:
But what the hell, we've got warm stuff and we're a 30 minute drive from home. Let's see what we can get away with (notice by the way the twinsie, Excursion Club Patagonias):
Katie leading "Five Fingers" (5.8 * but not in the book, the first ascent was in 2015):
Notice the corner/crack above Katie? That's our first ascent for the day (and actually, Squiddo and I had climbed this as an upper pitch when we did Five Fingers, but we hung on gear cleaning lots of grass and dirt out of the crack - thus leaving it too dirty to lead that day).
Looking down "All Her Toes" from most of the way up the first lead (it's also 5.8 *):
After our FA I worked with Katie on making crack anchor systems. It was getting pretty cold by the time we finished that, so we headed back to the chainsaw. Yes, you read that right. We're in non-wilderness there, and the forest portion of the hike was getting a little overgrown. The trail's very clear now. Just in time for winter:
Katie is up this trip after visiting friends in Santa Barbara. She's hanging out with us for a week before she heads over to stay with Jim and Wendy while attending her 10 day WFAR course. And, up with her from Santa Barbara is my new, 2017, long-sleeve Excursion Club Tee shirt (yeehaw, I must still be rad):
And that, I strongly suspect, is it for "late season" (at least until next year).