Bill and Terry drove back to Denver while I drove south
to meet Andrew Richardson and friends. This is the Wilson Arch, a formation
that I passed on the way.
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The famous Mexican Hat. In celebration of Andrew's upcoming wedding,
the idea was to see how many people we could get to the top.
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Andrew leading up the bolt ladder on the Mexican Hat
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Matt Richardson and kite on top of the Mexican Hat. Look
carefully and you'll also spot the tequila bottle.
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Andrew and the assembled multitude on top of the Mexican
Hat. There should have been two more of us but there was a misunderstanding
about the rendezvous time.
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Craig Sovka descending from the Mexican Hat
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The next day Andrew and I went to sample the climbs at Indian Creek.
After flailing on this climb ("Elephant Man", 5.10) we watched a cute 20-something
as she effortlessly waltzed to the top.
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Our final destination was Arches National Park. This is the Landscape
Arch. You can't stand underneath it because a big slab of rock fell off
a few years ago.
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In Arches we climbed the west face of "Dark Angel" (5.9, A1), an
impressive but rather crumbly pinnacle.
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