Miguel was going out again the next day, and with the sun out, I wasn't going to miss it for the world! Since yesterday I had just learned how to belay, and tie myself into a harness, it was obviously time to learn how to clean. Cleaning a route means taking the carabiners out on the way up, tying in 'direct' at the top, untying from the main rope and trusting you direct tie-off, then rerouting the rope, retrusting the rope and untying your direct. All of this is just to get all of the carabiners back!
By the end of the day, I was getting some serious one more route syndrome and by the time I got back to campus, I just about fell asleep at dinner.
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