Exit 32, June 24: Rainy Day Climbing

Along with the usual drug- and porn-related route names there are several with water names, like Rainy Day Women and Hang It Out To Dry (unfortunately these are all beyond my abilities so we couldn’t climb them as a tribute to the precipitation). The World Wall is a good place for climbing for a day when the forecasts call for anywhere from 30% to 70% scattered showers — even the low 10 routes are sheltered by the big second pitch roof full of 13s and 14s.

Oh, and we got the same “this parking lot is closed at dusk, we could lock you in but we’re going to be nice and just close the gate” note as we did last week. We got to our car at 9:30, about 15 minutes after sunset. If we were to get technical, while sunset was officially at 9:11, dusk does not happen until 9:52. So it seems they’re getting more serious about enforcing the day use only rules (or at least serious enough to leave notes).