After spending the entire day in the lodge yesterday due to the rain, we all woke up this morning determined to do something a little more active with our time! Though the day started off very cold and dreary again, the rain at least seemed to be holding off for a while which gave us some encouragement! We decided to hike around a bit and maybe see what we could see over at "El Cap". El Cap, or El Capitan, is a definite hot spot for climbers as well as sight seers in Yosemite. It is approximately 3,000ft tall and offers some of the most amazing and challenging climbing routes in the world!
Taylor, Mike and Jonathan enjoyed a few climbs on the nose of El Cap where Taylor enjoyed practicing placing protection into the cracks. He has so much enjoyed getting to spend time with these guys (and Jessica too, of course!) and has already learned a ton of valuable information and skill from them about climbing!
Also, I just have to throw this in there because I was SO excited and embarrassingly star-struck, but yesterday when we were in the lodge here at Curry Village, who walked right in but Alex Honnold himself!! Taylor was the one to notice him and all of the experienced and knowledgable rock climbers at my table seemed relatively unfazed, while me, the non-rockclimber, quietly freaked out with excitement at our celeb sighting!! We didn't get to talk to him or anything, but it was at least neat to see him! Now I guess I can add him to my list of celeb run-ins, right next to Richard Simmons!
by Motsenbocker
No soloing please!
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