A tree!

Conversation and nature… doesn’t get much better. Wow, what a convenient place to drop an entire tree…

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This to this

Put this together yesterday. Incredibly gorgeous morning to be moving… aka rapping my head on the bars first thing in the morning :P

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Jeep!

In other news… actually went off-roading today. Pennsylvania shale and mud; smells like home :D

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QM in the real world

Three foot crawl space. Yeup, Craig is detail oriented and checks everywhere. First use of sideways monkey when it was literally the best form of locomotion :)

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Dessert

The waiter here delivered the most inconceivably amazing dessert descriptions in the history of culinary overindulgence. Pears, Tiramisu, Cheesecake… somewhere on the upper east side of Manhattan. yowza! (Coversation and company was *nearly* as good. ;)

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Adult Life

Where’s the Puffin today? …en route to Govenor’s Island for first full day of Art of Retreat.

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Yes!

What do you at 1am when you’re on the way to the airport for a 6am flight?? …got off the highway at the airport exit and BAM!!

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Third route

Once we had our top rope up, we spent the rest of our daylight here. Staright up, dihedral with a 5.8 finger jam crack. Paste your feet on the right and bury your hands… four attempts, but I couldn’t quite pull this one off.

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…then

Straight up the middle of this. Blank and mossy until you get to this unique feature mid-face.

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Second route

Then we moved a bit left on that same wall. This was crazy hard to make the first move to get up onto the wall.

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Straight up

This wall was just a few degrees from vertical. Standing on tiny features like edge of a nickel. The upper lip is about 200 feet, and roofed out at least forty feet. Route started with this sheer, wet, mossy wall with a fist-jam crack (insert entire hand, make fist so it can’t come out and the walk up the wall :) Spent all day climbing all over this wall, and then one other route.

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Gorge-ous!

Rained all night and all morning… finally cleared up and now this terrible drive thru some lousy national forest or something… #whereAreTheRocks !

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