Back at it

Headed to the Gunks today with a group of Coles climbers: Jess, Joanna, Miguele, and Gregg. As I have not climbed in about 2 months and was not certain of my toe (which I broke a little while back), I made sure to start slow. We first did Short Job, 5.4, G-PG, *. A two pitch climb, the first pitch is a shot 5.3 and the second 5.4. The second pitch was interesting, and plenty for my comeback with some strange moves to ledges on the side. After that we headed to Double Chin, 5.7, PG, **. A single pitch of crack, ledges and corners. It was hard enough to get me nervous and happy I didn't tackle anything harder. The end is particularly bizarre. It now seemed ludicrous that I once took Evangeline there to learn to belay a leader (http://www.themonkeyclub.org/2010/09/double-chin.html).

Given the size of the group and how busy it was, that's all we managed to do. But to be frank, I was happy we did not do more. My head was not ready for more, and my toe had enough.

A beautiful sunny day where now one got hurt, can't ask for more.