California 197

Great day filled with great climbing and great adventuring. Woke up at 8:30am and met up with fellow climber Kai. He’s a ton more experienced than I am and focuses primarily on big wall climbing. We went to the curry cafeteria and got some breakfast it was necessary fuel. I fueled up with some bacon, eggs, and a biscuit. I knew I was going to need a large breakfast for this day. We were doing a 15 pitch simul climb up Royal Arches. Its easy to moderate climbing but nothing out of my physical range. Id even say a lot of it was very steep hiking then some technical climbing with the cracks. We started around 9:30am and finished about two and a half hours later with a three hour descent on some very sketchy terrain at times. Not something you would want to fall off of. After the climb we indulged in a Its it ice cream sandwich then soup and beer. Im planning on taking the next day or two to rest and recover my skin and muscles. My finger tips look like burnt purple ends of a hotdog. Overall great casual adventure I can’t complain. Thank you Kai for letting me follow him on such a fun climb.

Stay safe all.