Wake Up Time: 4:45am
Meet Up Time: 5:15am
Chatauqua Parking Lot: 6:15am
Discovery of Clare’s Missing Harness/Belay Device: 6:20am
Ad Hoc Solution Via Swami Belt using Lauren’s Long Sling: 6:40am
Begin Hiking: 6:50am
Start Climbing: 7:45am
Summit First Flatiron: 1:20pm
Painful Swami Belt Lowering: 1:30pm
Chatauqua Parking Lot: 2:30pm
Lunch at Brasserie Ten-Ten: 3:00pm (Got Nicoisse Salad-YUM!!!)
Home: 6pm
Day time temps were in the mid 90s, which was scorching on the rock!
I’m glad we had a 70 meter rope, but it still wasn’t quite long enough to combine pitches 3 & 4 without simul-climbing. In future, I would do it with a 60 meter rope, and just know that I’d have to simul-climb.
Wearing the swami belt was uncomfortable and painful. It made me feel grateful for the generations before; it is their pain & suffering which has promoted the shift in design and innovation for safer, lighter, and stronger equipment!
Thank you, Lauren for the extra sling & belay device. Without your extra gear, we wouldn’t have been able to do the climb! More pictures below…
Lauren Hiking to Base of First Flatiron
Start of Bakerdango (5.6)
Finishing 1st Pitch of Bakerdango (5.6) – See if you can see Lauren in the trees to the left, that’s our cozy belay.
Lauren finishes the 2nd pitch. It was nice to come through the large trees, for a moment the shade felt great.
Lauren Launching up Pitches 3 & 4 – We decided to simul-climb the last bit of pitch 4, so Lauren could reach the summit ridge.
Clare Simul-climbing Pitch 3 of Bakerdango (5.6)
Lauren on the Summit Ridge of First Flatiron – What splendid views!
Lauren Wrapping up the 5th Pitch
Lauren Protecting the final moves to the Summit Block
Lauren on the Summit Block
Lauren Rappeling off the First Flatiron
Tags: Bakerdango (5.6), Boulder, CO, First Flatiron, Rock Climbing