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Trip Reports
Here's where you peruse WACer trip reports and post your own for everyone to see. Remember: Never let the truth interfere with a good story! | Trip Reports |
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| Weather | cool & windy |
| TrailConditions | dry |
| Owned By | jrnance13 |
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| RowId | 400 |
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Rise and shine, 730 this week's deadline, perfect time for catching clear cascade day break sun dancing dawn that had kind, soft glare but quickly grew blinding the more you stared. Though still a bit weary upon arrival at base lot Erie, WAC peoples parked, percolated, packed up, piled in, then, poised proctors push petro pedal persistently plowing to and fro until all were in attendance, ready to go. Okay, groups gather, stop your greetings cause we're gonna begin this meeting with today's debriefing details including slow-mo demo of belay and rappel. Aw hell, funny snap back react from instructor who got balked when trying to walk away while still anchored to his dismay. Everyone feeling good, everything making sense? No more questions? Now please steer to your up or down stairs station without hesitation as there is much for you to do...
...and then the real fun begins because WAC weekends warp the fourth dimension beyond comprehension... the entire day flies by with fast flash finish. Are we hyperbeings searching for morsels of truth and meaning? Why not? We live in hyperworld staying busy like squirrels during pre-winter feeding frenzy, there's certainly no time to wait as new generations hasten anticipation of the post-modern nation and all of the vast uncertainties, paradoxical possibilities, hypocritical irrationalities that please / plague, mend / fray, and Change is the only sure constant these days, but wait, opening Huxley's doors a weee bit more so indeed yee see’s how the mighty pendulum swings between extreme rigid objective >><< soft subjective both unsettling like Ummagumma early-Floyd Meddlings......and yet maybe that's why we want to grab rock with Pappa Pat Smurf. Who can deny that inner urge to be one with the universe, no more mind body disconnect weak heart Cartesian dualistic bullsh**, this class is in it to win it from start to finish, we want the basic skills to push for new-limit thrills without major medical bills. And when its time to climb, it’s nice to find the reassuring presence of WAC veterans, having that confidence to accomplish when ready to close another chapter of the Open Book, and then the pay day beauty of the top-out settle down turn around look…..Hey, hey, get your head out the nook, cow tail anchor in, off belay, but you're not here to stay, so clove hitch, time to ditch that figure eight, butterflies yell Rope! then pitch away, hand-line feeling fine, unclip and make quick scurry up rest of cliff. Ha, food, drink, breathe, absorb gorgeous view as endorphin fed fantasies float lady love to that island within an island.....hey,,,,, HEY!,,, you got all your knots yet? Ur. Well then, you need to get over here and start tying my friend. Whip, slip, cinch, clip, and you better dress her right or it's not legit. Whatya know, good to go, onto the next show to set solid pro. "Ten minutes, build me an anchor." So Team gets to web-wrapping trunk of tree, rock seams, and with full rack we tap primo crack pick placement, tuck nut snug and flush with skill plus luck it won't bust when climber gets pumped out ridiculous and blows from crux. Time flux makes report rough leaving much untouched but plenty to discuss over pizza.
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