late out the gate

Ahoy,

We went to Tram this past weekend, but I forgot a camera because I'm a bad documentarian. And also, we probably should have stopped watching tv/climbing videos earlier than we did the night prior. We awoke so much later than we were planning. Thanks in great part to our friends we were riding with giving us a shamefully much needed wake up call, we made it out the door with absolutely no time to spare. Perhaps we should begin instituting a wake-up call system, wherein the first awake calls someone else to confirm everyone is going to be on time. I feel like I'm still not at the point in my life where I can be relied upon to rise and arrive somewhere early on a weekend. Is that even a reasonable goal in my lifetime?

It was our first Tram trip of the season and weather was perfect. Given our past experience (READ: fumblings) with Tram season passes, we opted against it this summer. It's always been somewhat of a scramble to get our money's worth out of it. Last summer, it was closed for 1/3 of the time due to everything being on fire. The pressure to not get gypped is too much, maybe because we are suckers. But this year is a new year and we will not be fooled once more!

We ended up running into a ton of friends up there, kind of a rarity I'm told because it's so easy to hide from/avoid people. I'm always delighted when other people are there that are girls. Too many of these trips I feel like I'm the token female and it is always drastically less fascinating than the boys lead you to believe. It was a great intro to the climbing season and the brisk temperatures were oh-so-refreshing as we came out of that heat wave that set all of southern California on fire. It is not even summer.

meekly trained,
jt