Thursday, June 10, 2010

Leavenworth, WA - Iconoclast

Having not completely finished this route and coming up short on partners I checked out the climbing board to see who might be free. Net result was James and I meeting up with a poster for a run at Icconoclast on Snow Creek Wall. Unfortunately on the approach I snapped a branch off of a fallen log while stepping over, sprained my thumb and put a hole in my leg that kept pumping blood. It took a while for the blood to finally stop but the sprain didn't go away so easily. I led a couple of pitches and swung leads with Charles. The 4th and 5th pitches were spectacular if not challenging with a semi-useless appendage. Its all good beta for the Hyperspace run coming in the near future.

James moving up the 2nd pitch


The notorious hard corner pitch 3, tricky small gear and a bit dirty


Pitch 4 belay duty

Also mossy but a sweet traverse begins here and eventually leads to...


..this chicken-head covered face!


The next generation of pee licking climber's friends in training.


Time to go babes these guys are too dehydrated.