April 18, 2004

After spending a windy Saturday night sleeping in our tow rigs we headed out for one more day of wheeling.  This one is roughly a half mile long and climbs nearly 300 feet by the halfway point.  I didn't get many pictures, my spare set of batteries was dead.  The pictures I did take were from the main obstacle, a solid rock waterfall that has to be over 100 feet long.  Once at the top there is another steep ledge to climb before a gnarly boulder crawl to safety.  I managed to snake my way up the waterfall unassisted but timed out on the ledge up top.

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Jack tried a different line and made it about halfway up the first face.   After that point his back end slid over making it impossible to back up so we hooked up the cable and pulled him past that point.  he did manage to climb the ledge up top unassisted using some wheelspin.

Here's a shot from the distance.  We positioned Mark's rig to provide a safety line if needed.  The rig at the top (mine) was tied off to Mark's to keep him from going over as his rear tires were in the air after driving down that face.