Today, my girlfriend Mya and I set off on a 400-foot rock climbing adventure, navigating snowy cliffs, cooking a delicious meal, and overcoming fears!
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00:00I'm Ethan and I'm Maya and today we are going to climb this 400 foot cliff.
00:19How are you feeling? Are you excited? Are you nervous? A little nervous but I'm excited.
00:23This is the start. This is the start. It's a lot snowier than I was expecting.
00:32Oh never mind.
00:48Okay so I think we'll try to climb the first pitch and see if it gets less snowy and if not
00:52we might just have to climb something else but we're gonna go try it out.
01:01I'm just cutting in steps for you to take later.
01:03I'm gonna go up. I'm a little bit scared because it's very snowy and I've never
01:26done a multi-pitch in this much snow but I guess we'll see how it goes.
01:30Nice work. How do you feel? I feel good. I'm a little scared but
01:37it's kind of fun. Right? It's very alpine.
01:40I keep going deeper.
02:06Woman down. Woman down.
02:10This doesn't count as a fall. Beautiful up there. That's where we're going. Way nicer than that
02:17pitch. Yeah. Wow. That was crazy. It's so icy. Look at your stuff right now. It's like completely
02:27snowed over. Oh my gosh. Good job. That was fun all things considered. Yeah. Okay what have you
02:34decided to do? I'm gonna lead the next pitch. Let's go. A little bit of snow climbing. A little
02:41bit of rock climbing. Up to the tree. Have fun. Let's go. That was awesome. That was a bit scary.
03:02All right. Climbing.
03:04Pitch two done. Let's go. Wow. This is gorgeous. Dude you freaking led that. What?
03:34That was awesome. Pitch three. Perfect. See you up there.
03:44Wow this is some serious friction climbing.
03:49Yeah this pitch is just all about trusting your feet.
03:58Because you do not want to fall on this cheese grater stuff.
04:04So
04:28what a view.
04:35Let's go. Nice job. How was that pitch? That was good.
04:46Fourth and final pitch.
04:56Oh this is your kind of route Maya. You're gonna like this one.
05:19Okay well this is the most committing move of the whole
05:22climb so far.
05:47Rock.
05:52It hit you.
05:59Oh the anchor. Let's go.
06:12On belay.
06:15Climb on. Okay here she comes.
06:18Yeah Maya. You got it.
06:31Oh my gosh.
06:36That was scary. Yeah. Holy crap.
06:47On the menu today. Spicy sausage pasta.
07:18Bone apple tea.
07:30Okay now you can coil it up and do the honors. Ready?
07:34All right you got to stop her in the end. Perfect.
07:38Rope.
07:47Sweet thanks.
07:54So climber is going to go up this way.
08:00Well I will meet you down just just below that little ledge. We'll set up an intermediate
08:04so I'm just going to clip this in and you get ready to clip into that anchor as well.
08:08I'll see you down there.
08:35Coming down. Okay you got this.
08:43Doing good babe. I'm so scared.
09:05So
09:28great job. Now you can keep your hand on the brake.
09:32One hand on the brake and then your other hand you can clip in. Sweet. Now I'm good.
09:37There you go. How was that? That was so scary.
09:44You did great. All right second repel. See you later.
10:01Okay another successful repel. That one went way better than the first one.
10:31So
10:52done the hard part. Made it. Let's go. Okay see you down there.
11:01So
11:21you made it. Made it. That was so fun.
11:31That was awesome.