Spent the past week rock climbing in Joshua Tree National Park with Meredith (these are her pictures). Scraped up my knuckles a lot. Meredith continues to grumble about my Metolius Mastercams. Had some good weather, some bad. We continue to have a unique ability to turn a trivial 5.3 multipitch into a 5.10a splitter crack half-day epic with a pretty solid overhanging lead fall (thank you, yellow Alien). By the end of the trip we were more dialed in and having a really great time. Morning climbs were all frozen numb hands and feet, but the afternoon weather got to be outstanding – shirtsleeves and no winter hats. I have a couple pics up too:
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