Pecos_Easter03

Pecos_Easter03_day1

Friday morning was nicely cloudy which enabled us to begin day 1 in the normally too-hot-to-climb in mid-day Solarium area. Mike & John went straight for the "Arch", while I set up a top rope upstream on Broken Arrow(5.8).
We looked at the swim and we jumped right in, not to mention fishing poles. Oh, the water, oh, the water, oh, the water, let it run all over me....
After a relaxed swim, I joined in the monkey fun around the "Arch" area:
Swampy Monkey(5.8), Sea Monkeys(5.10-), Drunkey Monkey(5.10), & Monkeys on Juice(5.10).

Marissa-Minna-John-Paul

Marissa-Minna-John-Pau-Louie

Mike_Drunky Monkey_1

I got to set up the only remaining climb, Drunkey Monkey, which, although it required some long webbing to prevent rope scraping, was my favorite climb of this area. I climbed up Swampy Monkey just to the left to take these pictures.

Mike_Drunky Monkey_2	Mike_Drunky Monkey_3	Mike_Drunky Monkey_4
Mike_Drunky Monkey_6	John_Drunky Monkey_1	John_Drunky Monkey_2
Pecos_theArch_1	Pecos_theArch_2	Pecos_theArch_3

As we moved to the Solarium around mid-afternoon (still cloudy

), I snapped a final shot of Louie & Marissa on the Monkey Routes. After Mike got to lead The Prism(5.10-)

, he let me lead Sun baked(5.11-)

. Both these routes were very sweet and had stars by their names on the map because they were so stellar. After we also set up Half-Baked(5.10) in the middle, we continued to lead, top-rope, and play on everything in the area. At one point, Mike and I set up and played on Sunburst(5.11-) which also proved to be a wonderful route. At some point, Mike went fishing. He wasn't gone long, but he caught two very nice and large catfish.

Louie_Marissa_Monkey Routes	Trip_Sun Baked_1	Trip_Sun Baked_2
Trip_Sun Baked_31.jpg	Louie_Flower	Louie-Paul_Flower

I can't name the red flowers on the top of these thorny things, but they were everywhere.

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