This weekend Steve and I went up to New Hampshire and spent a day looking at real estate, a day at Cathedral, and a day at Whitehorse Ledges. Aside from Funhouse, it was all new climbing at Cathedral and I’d never been to Whitehorse at all.

Climbing-wise I didn’t do anything spectacular. The high point was making it up the second (very short but annoyingly hard) pitch of Pooh with a lot of encouragement and emotional hand-holding from Steve. The low point was backing off a slab route at Whitehorse so Steve could take over. My head wasn’t in the slab game this weekend.

More to the point was a relaxing weekend with Steve: a romantic hideaway at the base of Cathedral, lots of good ethnic food, some swimming, the Red Sox, and more than I needed to know about multi-family homes in Manchester. You could wish for all weekends to be like this one.

Route names at Whitehorse are a bit of a guess. You can’t find any two topos or people who agree. The thing we thought was called Man’s Best Friend was probably the hardest and the thing we thought was called Echo was definitely the easiest. And we’re pretty sure about Ladies and Gentlment because it’s kind of obvious.

Sunday at Cathedral:
Funhouse, 5.7 (P1: Steve, P2: Dawn)
Black Lung, 5.8 (Steve)
Upper Refuse, 5.5 (P2 & 3: Dawn)
Pooh, 5.8+ (P1: Steve, P2 & 3: Dawn)

Monday at Whitehorse Ledges:
Ladies and Gentlemen, 5.8 (Steve)
Circle of Life, 5.9 (Steve)
Echo, 5.6 (Dawn)
Man’s Best Friend, 5.8 (Steve)