11th day on...

i'm guessing that today was my 11th day on, but i can't remember if i had rested twelve days ago or not... so i'm just going with 11...

today we (lu, ashley, tim, phil, andrew, brooke and i) headed out to the canyon...
we climbed at toomsooba (i learned the correct spelling of that today, i always thought it was team suba)... it was my first time there so i was psyched to get on a bunch of new climbs!

lu and i wanted to do 12 pitches... so we started off with a 5.9 (cake walk) warm up
moved onto a 5.11 (ADR 1) warm up...
then we got to the 12s...
1) courtesy 5.12 - fell at the top
2) toomsooba 5.12 (flash)
3) powder keg 5.12 - tried three times; second time clipped on of the anchors and fell on the move to the jug
4) spell bound 5.12- fell at the crux; amazing rockclimb
5) ADR 5.11 - so pumped; hands were opening on all the jugs
6) double aught 5.12 - amazing as well

lu sent all the ones that i got on, but also got on the beast (5.13) and gave that thing two good efforts, but unfortunately he couldn't pull through without the fall... better luck next time... (but he's done all of them before, so he was mostly training)

ashley was working on her project; powder keg... she gave it a few awesome efforts but the problem was still undefeated...

tim ended up taking a rest day, mostly belaying everyone; thanks tim!

phil warmed up and was really psyched on spell bound; tried it a few times - first burn figuring out the beta, and the next couple of burns trying to get through the crux...

andrew and brooke tried a few different things; toomsooba, powder keg and a 5.10 on the way out...

we all (except lu) have things to come back to... can't wait to get back there!

oreo had a blast as well... he found himself a cave that he got all dirty in (which got him in trouble because he stepped on the rope, so we tied him up to a tree)... he also found some animal bones that he enjoy very much... besides that he was good boy...