11worth on the Fiftteenth

Rallied in the Rabbit with Brent on Sunday and met up with Rafe in the Icicle. Hit up the WaffleHaus first then headed to Duty Dome for our 1st routes. Once we found it correctly (went left past Fish Wall which was wrong), we got on a 5.9. Rafe lead and we followed. Full 30m route, I cleaned and rapped. Always fun to rap a full route since you can't mess up the rope length.

I led the next route which was a 5.8 on Duty Dome. Got near the last bolt but could not find it. Lowered down, grabbed a few camalots and headed back up. Placed 2 under some bomber flakes and headed up for da chains. Felt good to be leading again, especially placing gear.

We then headed back down and grabbed an espresso milkshake and sandwich at the Gingerbread Factory. After a long wait we headed out for Givler's Crack. Rafe had been there before, but it was not working, and we could not find the entrance to the route for some dumb reason. We just wandered around on the dust and lame descent trail. So we headed down and climbed at Hammerhead Rock at the entrance of Clamshell Cave. I lead a lame 5.6 trad route and then we TR'd the 5.10 slab multiple times, fun route.

We then headed back down to Alphabet Rock and climbed a 5.10 route on TR. Damn hard climb (i'll get route names tomorrow once I find my guidebook again). By this time it was raining, so we headed out for Heidleburger and shakes and back to the rain showers on the west side.