{"id":74,"date":"2000-10-07T20:14:00","date_gmt":"2000-10-07T20:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/climbing2\/?p=74"},"modified":"2010-09-07T14:22:40","modified_gmt":"2010-09-07T14:22:40","slug":"lost-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/climbing\/2000\/10\/lost-city.html","title":{"rendered":"Lost City"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Saturday Steven and I went to Lost City. I’d never been there before and Steven has only been twice so we spent a little time wandering around looking at everything. Finally we found Lost City Crack (5.10a) which Steven had led on a previous trip and decided to start with that. When we were done we dropped a TR on the face to the right of it which looked hard.<\/p>\n

\"Steven<\/div>\n

Steven tried the opening moves a few times and then decided to use the cheater block. We’d already figured out that you could scramble up a nearby block and lean over onto the face at a jug from which point the climbing looked a little easier. He got a long way up the route with some falls and then decided to come down.<\/p>\n

I was making some progress climbing the direct start so I was determined to get it. I must have made 20 attempts, each time getting a little higher but ending up back on the ground. Eventually I noticed that I was shredding the skin off the fingertips on my right hand and decided to quit. Later we ran into some guys on Survival of the Fittest (5.13) and asked them about the face. They told us it was 11c if you start from the block, 12a from the ground. Woo hoo! As I said to Steven, “I’m almost there. All I have left to do is the hard move.”<\/p>\n

From there we found a pair of cracks that Steven thought were 5.8. There was another crack in a corner nearby that looked more enticing though and I decided to lead that one even though I didn’t know what it was rated. It ended up being easier than 5.8 and a really fun route with lots of great stems and a few good jams. I felt pretty good leading this route, no irrational moments of fear at all. Plus I hardly used any cams. The more scared I am, the more I use cams as an emotional crutch.<\/p>\n

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On Saturday Steven and I went to Lost City. I’d never been there before and Steven has only been twice so we spent a little time wandering around looking at everything. Finally we found Lost City Crack (5.10a) which Steven had led on a previous trip and decided to start with that. When we were… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gunks","category-gunks-lost-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/climbing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/climbing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/climbing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/climbing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/climbing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/climbing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":500,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/climbing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions\/500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/climbing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/climbing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/climbing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}