Pink Rain
Climbing|Issue 159

Pink Rain

James Lucas
Pink Rain

IN SEPTEMBER 2007, I encountered a new kind of Yosemite rain. My friend John Schmid, a pediatric nurse, and I left Oakland, California, before dawn, driving through thunderstorms to the Valley. Our goal was Beggar’s Buttress, a nine-pitch 5.11c. Double-fisting energy drinks and chewing nicotine gum, John tore up the mountain roads in his Subaru while I white-knuckled in the passenger seat.

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