it was an all girls party on the lost arrow spire tip. we've talked a long time about actually going and doing the climb. finally we got everybody together and ready. friday evening was the departure time. we left lynsey's house and was on our way to the all gals adventure. needless to say, we did over sleep a little bit and started late the next morning. we started hiking the brutal 3.5 mile trail to the top of the upper yosemite falls a little after 7am and got to the overlook (about another mile) at around 11am. the ground was covered in snow, left over from the previous day's storm. we started rapping the notch at around 11:30am. we didn't start climbing until noonish. the day went chilly and pleasant. one good thing about aid climbing is that you don't really exert yourself all too much when you are waiting for the leader to finish the pitch.
we spent a long time on route and on the tyrolean. given that we had one complete noob (susan. :D) and one gimp (me), i though we did pretty well. we didn't get to the floor until about 11:30pm. we did get two rescues from the boys (alex, matt, dan, and chris).
all in all, it was a rad day. :D next time, i'm going free climbing. :D
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