Josh and I decided to hit Index for a half-day. He arrived in Monroe chilled to the bone from riding his bike... hit 522 and the temp dropped to about 40. Summer is over. After loading up and getting on the road, we stopped for the best coffee ever at the place just east of Index on HWY 2. I got a dark chocolate mocha with hemp milk, which was the bomb. With super triple shot energy drink in hand, we killed it on the 3 minute aproach... 2.5 minutes on the dot. We took a quick tour of the lower town wall, then scrambled up to the ledge to start GNS.
I led the pitches and everything went fine... it was my third time leading it. There was a guy soloing the route, which was a bit odd. He rambled on by, and then a few minutes later came down-climbing back by. After rapelling the route, we dragged the rope over to a 5.8 crack on the lower level of the slab and burned a few laps on it. We headed out of there with ideas of getting the the Mountaineer's Salmon Bake, but we hit traffic in Gold Bar and that put a stop to that, as the ride home took longer than expected.
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