Awesome 4th pitch of Rewritten, El Dorado Canyon

I still need to do this! I've heard such great things and of course, the photo op is cool too ;)

Long story but it was quite an experience. We did the 5.8+ first pitch of Great Zot that was "interesting". Then I didn't look at the book before the crux pitch and ended up doing the 5.8 variation that was pretty sustained. The exciting part was topping out at dark with another party that was right behind us. We got lost trying to find the way down and didn't get back to the car til 11pm. We only had two lights to share between 4 people and the descent route is very hard to find, even in daylight. Nat's son was back at the car. She had called him from the top and said we would be back in about 1/2 and hour. After that call we lost cell signal. At 8:30 he called 911. When we were coming down the slope by Redguarden wall we saw rescue vehicles going up and down the road with lights shining everywhere. They were about to send rescue teams up to find us!

sweeeet pic! EXPOSURE!!!!!

Looks just awesome, wind or no wind.

On the third pitch belay, I got some pics of Roger Briggs leading Grandmother's Challenge right next to us.

The wind was gusting up to 50 that day i would say, and it was at its most fierce when we were on THIS pitch. 30-40 was pretty sustained. When we returned to our campsite around midnite after our mini epic, one of our tents was completely GONE!!! It was puzzling, we couldnt figure out if someone TOOK it, which seemed to be the case (and if so why did they take the crappy one and leave the good one) or if it blew away! Turns out it was a little of both... it had blown completely flat and the campground host picked it up for us so it wouldnt blow away :)

Great pic! Great climb. Looks like you had fun.

This pic is sickk!!! That route looks soo fun to climb on!