Sport climbing and swimming - Shuteye ridge

Full on summer has arrived, with temperatures in the triple digits its time for lazy man trips to the mountains. We headed up for 3 days of "climbing" in Shuteye ridge. Even at the high elevation of 7,000'+ its still smoking hot in the sun, which makes getting up the motivation to climb difficult!

Climbing trip?

Teresa, Michael and I spent 3 days camped out near Lost Eagle. We climbed twice at Lost Eagle and once in the Chilkoot lake area. With the heat we only climbed a handful of routes, but they were all good ones! Michael and I flashed a difficult 5.10c slab route and we made several cracks at sending the route "Afterglow" (5.11b), neither of us sent it clean on lead, but Michael came close (not so much me!)

My attempt on Afterglow

After the tricky parts

 

Michael climbing it with better style than me!

We also checked out the swimming hole wall. Climbed a couple of nice routes there, and did a bunch of swimming and lounging by the river. 

Swimming hole wall

a swimming hole

We climbed a couple of routes at Chilkoot Lake and We also some moderate slabs on the apron at Lost Eagle. We shared the shade with a large friendly group of climbers visiting from San Diego. 

Slab climbing

Some dude from San Diego. Nice guy!

And then of course, more time at the swimming holes!

Cool swimming holes

Michael enjoying the water!

Teresa swimming in the deeper pool

Fun weekend! Lost Eagle goes into the shade in the late afternoon, there are plenty of routes there to check out. We will have to go back for some climbing in the future (maybe with less swimming?)