I’ve been reading through old blog entries, getting things reorganized, and I came across one about the mist that sometimes settles along the ridge line causing all the rock to be coated in a water that is somehow more wet than rain. It seems like when I started climbing at the Gunks, that kind of fog was pretty common, but reading the journal entry last week I realized I hadn’t seen it in a long time.

And then yesterday, there it was. Did I make it happen? The rock up to the tree line was slime-coated. Above the tree line, there was climbing but you had to get there. Even the 4s and 5s felt challenging and required plenty of protection. So it wasn’t exactly a hero day. Scott and I did some fun, easy stuff (well, it was fun and easy once we got off the ground a ways). I hadn’t been on the second pitch of Frog’s Head since my first year climbing. I didn’t remember what a nice pitch it was. And the second pitch of Baby, likewise.

Frog’s Head, 5.5 (P1: Scott, P2: Dawn)
Easy O, 5.2 (P1 & 2: Scott)
Baby P2, 5.4 (Dawn)
Shockley’s Ceiling, 5.6 (P1 & 2: Dawn, P3: Scott)
Strictly from Nowhere, 5.7 (P1: Dawn)