Sunday was my first trip to the Gunks and first rock climbing trip of the season. I was meeting some people from the Outing Club at the West Trapps parking lot Sunday morning. I woke up super early to leave town that morning – I left around quarter to six and made it to the Gunks three hours later. I arrived a bit earlier than the people I was meeting so I hung around the parking lot for a bit and walked around – I was just super excited to be outside and climbing again and had a cup of coffee to get out of my system.
The guys I were meeting up with for the day showed up shortly and we headed off to the cliffs. There were five of us so we split into two groups – I was in the group of three. We walked around a bit before finding an open climb we were interested in. I found it enjoyable just to be outside walking around rather than stuck in my office. We ended up getting on a nice little climb, something along the lines of Frog’s Breath (?) – I wasn’t in charge of finding the climbs and often translated the names in weird ways in my mind. It was a nice little climb with a couple of tricky and fun moves. We moved on to Buddy Bush (or something like that…) next, but did just the first little bit of before escaping to a rappel station because it was wet above there.
