Lots of trips to The Black down the hatch and the excitement, fear, and friendship the supernatural canyon stirs up fails to disappoint. With summer temperatures creeping up Jim Gilchrist and I raced over to The Black for one more adventure before high temps shut us down until fall. We decided to try and stay in the shade as much as possible and hoped on Cloaked Interpretation. This route is a link up of two great routes; Cloak and Dagger and Mig's Arete. You climb Cloak and Dagger for the first four pitches before moving right onto a ledge system and climbing a pitch that links the two climbs. This climb is brilliant in that you get to climb the second pitch of Cloaked Dagger, one of the greatest pitches on the face of the earth, as well as the upper stellar pitches of Mig's. As always there is plenty of "adult climbing" as Jim like to say with the linkage pitch being a little adventurous.
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| Jim on the third pitch of Cloak and Dagger |
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| From just about every belay this is the back drop! |
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| Jim approaching the belay at the top of the pitch that links Cloak and Dagger and Mig's. |
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| Belay Selfie. Who says you can't be in Grad School, work and not get out? |
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| Jim about to tunnel into the Bombay Chimney of the upper pitches of Mig's. |
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