Project Climbstuff: Camelback Mountain
As part of Project Climbstuff, I agreed to let Terry DuVall drag me up Camelback mountain. A much different climb than Piestwa Peak. 
For one thing, you go up and down Piestwa in about 90 minutes. We had three hours of travel up and back for Camelback. For another, the trail tends to loose defintion about 2/3 of the way up, so there is more rock scrambling. Plus, the hotness. We had a small missing hat fiasco at the now aptly named Lost Hat Point, but Terry clambered down a tough incline to retrieve his, and as I leaned over to mock him mine blew away as well. Anyway, I made a bit of a boo-boo and only brought two bottles of water, and ended up running out. Thankfully, Terry poured out some of his Camelback after I started getting chills and a headache. My bad! Still, a fairly fun climb. I want to try South Mountain next. 
For one thing, you go up and down Piestwa in about 90 minutes. We had three hours of travel up and back for Camelback. For another, the trail tends to loose defintion about 2/3 of the way up, so there is more rock scrambling. Plus, the hotness. We had a small missing hat fiasco at the now aptly named Lost Hat Point, but Terry clambered down a tough incline to retrieve his, and as I leaned over to mock him mine blew away as well. Anyway, I made a bit of a boo-boo and only brought two bottles of water, and ended up running out. Thankfully, Terry poured out some of his Camelback after I started getting chills and a headache. My bad! Still, a fairly fun climb. I want to try South Mountain next. 
posted by Michael at 3:16 PM
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