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Mon
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Jun '10
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It’s Tian’s first visit to Leavenworth crags. We arrive at Icicle Buttress a little before 9 and are fortunately the first party there. We climbed R&D in a little less than 3 hours. Yinan and Tian each led 2 pitches. I followed.We drove over to Castle Rock and had lunch in the parking lot. It’s scorching hot under the sun. We started on The Fault and continued on Catapult. We each led one pitch. I led the 5.8 pitch. It’s a super fun pitch if you do a good job hand jamming and stemming. We were heat exhausted after topping out in the afternoon sun and were out of water. So I ran down to the car and got another 3 litres.After rehydrating and resting in the shade, we started on Midway. Tian led the first two pitches and Yinan led the last.It was a super fun day cragging and we did 10 pitches, all classic!