symmetrical blisters
October 10th, 2006 Stephen Lau
This past weekend, I finally got back out to the rocks and got in some great climbing. We went to meetup with some friends in Bishop to climb at Owen’s River Gorge. Friday kind of sucked, it turns out they closed the Tioga pass through, and we definitely didn’t want to drive up to Reno and back down to Bishop, so we figured we’d just head up to Yosemite to our hotel, and come back on Saturday. Friday evening got a little exciting when Isis ate 11 oz’s of chocolate chips and came down with some mild chocolate toxicity. After a fun sidetrip to the pet emergency room, they pumped her full of IV fluids and told us she’d be fine. So we headed up to the hotel with our beagles in tow to spend the night.
The hotel was great… really cozy cute inn, and it turns out the innkeepers have a beagle as well. 
In the morning we slept in, woke up late, had a great breakfast buffet, and packed up to head home. We called Yosemite on a whim, and…damn… it turns out they opened the pass.
After an hour of debate (we were worried about heading over and then having them close the pass and being stuck in the eastern Sierras), we decided to go for it and headed out to Owens River Gorge.
I had a great time climbing, doing some fun sport 5.9 and 5.10a routes, and ripping symmetrical blisters on both hands. Very strange.
After that, we camped out at Millpond Campsite. Camping with dogs is a lot of fun. We had 11 people and 4 dogs running around, and the dogs had a great time. Sleeping at night was probably a little cold for the dogs…given that I was woken up in the middle of the night by Isis burrowing in between our heads, and later on Char-siu crawled on top of me and slept on me. Next time we’ll have to bring more blankets than we did to keep them warmer.
Anyway, it was a fun weekend… I’ve definitely missed climbing and camping, and it’s nice to know I haven’t completely regressed in my climbing ability.
[tags: Climbing]
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