I climbed this route again with Tom Nims, but as a rope lead this time. I was signing up assuming we were climbing Adams. But I wouldn’t mind climbing Baker again since it’s such a nice and pleasant climb. It was a fun and uneventful climb. If you have read my last year’s TR, there isn’t really much excitement. We had pretty much the same weather this time, only a bit nicer. It drizzled a little on Saturday but didn’t really rain. We were astonished to find out how many cars were there at the trail head. It’s really crazy.

We took off at around 2:10 from the camp (~6000′, about 500′ lower than where we camped last year). Tom decided to go with only three ropes because everyone was obviously very strong and we didn’t see any reason anyone would be turned back. So I led the first rope and Tom followed me, since I am the only one except Tom who has done this route before. I kept a moderate pace of ~1100′/hour and we took three 5-min short breaks. We summitted at 7:15. We were above the clouds (pretty much the same as last year) and couldn’t see any peaks around us. It was however not very windy on the top, at least to Baker’s standard. We were back to camp at about 10 and took our time to break camp and left at 12. We were back to trail head before 3.