Christian started out with the most troublesome one, the Black Diamond porteledge. Everyone seems to prefer this ledge over the other because of the size and features, but it is a serious problem to set up.
Each time he has set it up though, he has learned some things to make it easier the next time. So, hopefully, it will be easy to set up at some point! It took him an hour and a half to set up. Last time, he went up with Caitlyn, it was more like 2 hours.
The Metolius porteledge took probably less than half an hour.
We just about ran out of twilight when everything was set up. We were getting a little nervous though, as we did not have a fly on either ledge and the rain clouds were gathering.
Luckily, we did not get rained upon. The rock face gave us a bit of protection from the wind for the most part but we did still have some 18 mph gusts during the night.
The kids slept like rocks mostly, but we were still up pretty early. It wasn't quite as quiet as I had hoped it would be out there as we can still hear the train and the freeway in the background. The owls would hoot during the night and the roosters would crow all morning. Plus, I don't think I leveled out my side of the ledge too well so it wasn't the most comfortable sleep I've had. Everyone was pretty cozy and warm in their sleeping bags though.
There were still some clouds lingering around by morning but a lot of the thicker cloud cover disbursed by morning.
Christian brought the GoPro up to take some wide angle shots of us on the ledges.
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| Metolius |
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| Black Diamond |
On the hike back home, Caitlyn discovered a bobcat on the trail. They are usually a lot more skittish and will stay away from people but this one didn't seem to be too wary of us.
It was neat to see one up so close!
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