Start of the Climbing Season
….at least for me it was.
Even though I was suffering from a cold I picked up on the way back from CO, the camping reservations were made and The Valley weather was forecasted to be perfect.
Although the place is amazing, I sometimes dread going to the Valley because of the crowds, crazy tourist and noisy dirty campgrounds. However in late Winter or early Spring the crowds – both tourist and climbers – aren’t in full swing yet and the daytime weather can be in the perfect climbing range of 60’s and 70’s. This is one of my favorite times of the year to visit so I was really looking forward to climbing there this weekend – sickly or not.
It happened to be Easter weekend so we had a larger tourist crowd than I had expected, but there weren’t many climbers.
On Saturday we climbed three pitches – I felt pretty miserable from my cold, but was happy to be on the rock. Then on Sunday we climbed four pitches.
All of the climbs were repeats, being the first weekend out in 2008 and not feeling well, that was fine with me. I just wanted to have fun and be outdoors…..and I got both done 
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