Phylp and I had three splitter days of being able to basically hop on great moderates, meeting awesome people at every turn.

Day 1, lotsa routes on Dairy Queen Left, with good-vibed East Side climbers, and a late-day visit to Echo Rock running into a way psyched tweener-and-dad team.


Day 2 was spent at the Lost Horse Wall, on The Swift and Dappled Mare, sharing the place with just a few teams, including one doing guide certification.


And Day 3 found us at Conan's Corridor, climbing a stunning concentration of sweet routes with two fun and equally stoked teams, one a soon-to-marry couple from a community inside Wrangell-Saint Elias National Park in Alaska.


The weather and route quality was exceeded only by the company.