So, I finally got to meet the zeke and close the RC circle some more... Zeek I found out is not Zeckie... who wooda thunk it?

A fairly straight forward 10 hour drive had me cross through west Texas, into New Mexico and sneak into the SW corner of Arizona. That's two more states ticked off... yeah, ticked off they didn't get to experience the Aussie sooner!



It was so fucking cold a penguin's nuts would've froze off, but we pulled out some glorious pitches through sunflecks, spindrift and hard-boiled rain. Arizona had to show me all the seasons in my short visit but I unfortunately missed out on summer... oh yeah, and most of spring.



It was great to meet the man and his girl... we shared some beers, smores and stories... no ropes were cutzed, but one turned into a frickin' nightmare snaggle coil on the last 70m rap as I saved us from certain doom... and by certain doom I mean shivvering off teh mountain.



An inch of snow fell just as we were finished climbing the first day... where we subsequently returned to our doused fire which was deemed, by a fuck-tard douche ranger, to be unlawfully unattended and therefore a threat to everyone in existance and so put a ticket on the windshield with a waterproof covering, thereby protecting it from the oncoming drenching rainstorm, which was so full of rain and snow to put out the fires of hell, instead of actually putting out the fire himself.





It only hailed on most pitches, rather than all... I was happy for that... better than rain I guess. The sun was euphoric for all of about five minutes per pitch, but the quality of the climbing made up for it.



The climbing really was fantastic! After a 5 month break it was nice to take the sharp end once again.



Great to meet you, Zeek!

oh dude that rock looks sweet. how much is bolts and how much is gear?

Well, he's pulling up to a yellow alien, but it's mostly bolts. You don't even have to make your own anchor.

Yeah, I think we placed, what, about six pieces in the first four pitches? The rest was bolts, but not always exactly where you would want them... In some places though it made up for it with some fairly close spacing (about 4 in 20-25 feet or so).

ahh...that piece looked like a bolt to me. not sure why.

i love that kind of stuff. face climbing trad is my favorite kind of climbing. i don't mind it when there's a few bolts here and there and / or bolt anchors. i don't like it when it is all bolts because that gets boring, unless it is all bolts and there are many, many pitches. i just love face moves and plugging gear off ledges and stuff.

sweet - cochise is now at the top of my list.

Yeah, it's a cool place. Bring your slab shoes though.

Hey good job guys.
Man I'm jonesing to hit it now. But, I got a cough that won't go away and the weather is not cooperating. Only day its actually supposed to rain is Sat. Maybe we'll do JTree Sat anyway. The wifes are out of town, and we're babysitting the kids. What else we going do?

Ain't that da troof! My toes yelped! But that's coz they're whiny little bitches!

Good looking climb for sure.
Zeke/Zeek/Zekies, is the rock about like josh? Sharp Quartsmonzenite?

Pretty much

Sigh, climbing partner a fellow babysitting dad this weekend, is got other plans/not really jonesing to go.
Plus word is its supposed to rain a ton.
Rats.

Sigh, climbing partner a fellow babysitting dad this weekend, is got other plans/not really jonesing to go.
Plus word is its supposed to rain a ton.
Rats.

Rain rain you're too near, come again another year!

bright side - it's always good to do favors for people when it rains and you've nothing else to do.

Should do some projects around the house the wife wants done.

I've always found that karma is best built when it can't be spent.

Very good point.

and pc++, too