Chris rappels Princely Ambitions 5.9Hooked up with Chris Bamer as he celebrated his last day teaching for the school year. Drove up to Index to try out some climbing routes on the Great Northern Slab. Unfortunately on our first route, as I led the second pitch of Roger's Corner, my handheld broke off and I took a fall, jamming my foot in the process. I gave up my lead and then made it to the top of the second pitch. I told Chris I would be happy to belay him, but was done climbing. We walked/hopped around the corner to Princely Ambitions 5.9. A great long route! As Chris headed up, I scratched my head trying to figure out how he would be able to get back down and clean the route of his cams and nuts. The route was too long to rappel off, and required a rappel route that was to the left of the original climb and would not allow retrieval of Chris's gear placed during his climb up. I decided to man up, and put my climbing shoes back on. Excellent route! Glad I was able to climb it, although to get back to car I resorted to hopping on my one good ankle.
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