In the meantime while I was crafting on Sunday, Todd was out with Sharee and a host of other beginner types and manages to tweak a tendon or something, so Monday he didn’t really want to climb despite having arranged a date with Sharee again. So it was up to me to lead. I didn’t mind really because I figured we’d go do Trapped Like a Rat and Ken’s Crack and at least Sharee would find those routes interesting and challenging which is more fun than Todd running up them again. But as it turned out, Todd suggested we hike out to Millbrook and do Westward Ha, it being a very pleasantly cool day and we’d gotten an early enough start and all. So we did.<\/p>\n
Westward Ha turned out to be only OK in my opinion. It’s a nice route but hardly worth a four mile hike each way. It was pretty easy too, I’m happy to say. It actually felt like 5.7 to me and I had no trouble with it except at the beginning getting through the rotten band, I went left at Sharee’s suggestion despite my initial assessment that the route went right. It was pretty rotten and out of my line of gear so I didn’t want to place anything but ultimately I had to in order to go over this little overlap since I was essentially soloing otherwise. Later, Sharee removed my pieces and then traversed over to the right where I’d first thought the thing went where she says it was very nice.<\/p>\n
But the route proper (I could have stopped the rap earlier and just skipped that part according to Gunks.com) was nice and pretty casual. Some rope drag at the top thanks to the jaunt off to the left, the usual assortment of roofs and corners, and the fact that I went almost an entire rope length (a little longer than I should have because I went above the rappel tree to the real top). Then we did Disneyland to finish the day, which was fine but not any less rattling than Westward Ha if you ask me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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