What was your best climbing day of the decade?

Gerald Adams wrote: Which decade ? Some of us have climbed in four & more with partners who climbed all over the world.

This is a free-spray topic, no weird flexes required!

kevin deweese wrote: One of the best of my climbing days was last new years eve where my partner and I were finishing our FA in the Yosemite and it was so cold that we couldn't feel our limbs let alone belay or place gear so we rapped back to our portaledge camp and we just spent the day in the ledge telling stories and making puppet shows with our food and recording new years eve videos for our friends. Then the next day was a weeee bit warming so we spent it finishing the route. Probably the best new years eve and day of my life and I have never felt more fulfilled than to spend it with my partner sharing the suffering and the summit.

Last New Years Eve was technically in 2018. This thread is for best climbing day in 2019. I point this out because I really just want to hear more stories. ;)

Magpie79 wrote:

Last New Years Eve was technically in 2018. This thread is for best climbing day in 2019. I point this out because I really just want to hear more stories. ;)

Edit: i see you climbed into 2019 the next day. But more stories are always welcome.

This thread is for the best climbing day of the decade. 

kevin deweese wrote:

This thread is for the best climbing day of the decade. 

Oops! I was reading all the stories and forgot the title. 

we still have another year...does no one know how to count?

im implying that the first year of the 3rd decade is 2021. same as the first year of the 21st century was 2001. other wise the the 1900s would have been the 19th century

Retiring in 2015, climbing even more than before, and the last 100 or 200 FAs sprinkled over the last decade.  Lots of great days out with lots of great friends the last 10 years.  I’d also have to say belaying my son on his first 5.13 and 5.14 (I still tell him that I’m taking all the credit).

Nick Hitchcock wrote: we still have another year...does no one know how to count?

2/10

Either Kor's Flake at Lumpy Ridge or Petit Grepon in RMNP. Both were long days and awesome, memorable climbing with good partners.

May 18th 2015. Finally summited Mt. Hood. I had made a number of attempts prior to that. Fitness turned me back a couple times and nasty weather a couple times as well. I was just going to see "how high I can climb it this time." Well I felt good. Lungs could breath, legs could push. It was a good day. I went from somebody that says to them self "I want to climb a mountain" to a person that can say "I've climbed that damn mountain" It was so beautiful up there too. 

Nick Hitchcock wrote: we still have another year...does no one know how to count?

We know how to count. We are choosing to start at zero years, instead of one year, for our counting from whatever arbitrary point. For example, look at a ruler or tape measure. Either begins its measurement at zero centimeters, inches, feet, meters. When we measure time elapsed, we always begin at zero seconds, minutes, hours, days, etc. 

I did lots of good climbing between January 1, 2010, and last Wednesday, in spite of shattering my femur in a fluky fall in 2014. The climb that rises above was swinging leads up Serenity/Sons with Megan Artz. We raced two guys to the start and got the pole position.  She flashed the first and third, which I was happy to follow. I admired how efficiently she flicked the rope out of the way of each successive foot jam. (Excellent multitasking!) We rappelled down the conga line and found that our packs, which we’d hung up, were spared by the snafflehounds, whereas all the other packs got chewed up.

Seeing as this was the decade I started climbing, that’s a tough call.  But I’ll go with the FA of a horizontal roof that required nailing and micro cams with wall smacking potential.  That was pretty memorable.

Leading all 3 pitches of Repentance in New Hampshire in 2011, its been downhill ever since.

Suburban Roadside wrote:

Getting this guy out

                        ~ To this place in New Jersey~

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                     and doing one last first ascent 'together'

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Always great to hear from ya mahn! 

Good luck with getting the plan for "Rocking The Boats" open! 

Indoor pullin' is the bomb when the heat & humidity has one competing for climbs with everyone & Tics & chiggers too.