Lake Arrowhead

Since we missed out on the big end of summer Lake Tahoe trip, we decided to brave the weather again and attempt to go climbing up in the Lake Arrowhead area. We went back to the Pinnacles area near the Shooting Gallery that Christian and I went to near the beginning of the summer. This time, we would go to the climbs that are actually there instead of just hiking around.

We picked out a climb called Hosey Rosey (5.6).

We had a little pocket of shade in the beginning when we got there but it quickly retreated as the morning moved into afternoon. By the time we all climbed and came back down, there was none left. We had lunch and stopped to contemplate our next move. It was pretty hot. After resting a while and seeing that it was only getting hotter, we decided that it was just too hot to continue. 

Christian went back up to manage the ropes at the anchor, and then Emily decided to go up Fish and Games (5.6) on a top rope to finish up the day. Christian didn't want to do the climb on a top rope and it was too hot to climb it any other way, and frankly, my head hurt too much from the heat to make the attempt.

We left early in search of some kind of slushy, but had to just settle on an ice cold fountain drink. I think we are pretty much done with climbing this summer. It is just too hot to be out anywhere in Southern California. 

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Christian starts his training tomorrow. The district he is working in had offered a lot of the teachers an early retirement package last year so there was a record number of new hires that needed to be trained this year. He got keys to his classroom and they issued them Surface Pros to use in their classrooms.  So far, he likes it there. The district seems to take pretty good care of their teachers and the other teachers he met seem pretty nice.