The Captain

There really are no words to describe the immensity of El Capitan. It is unbelievably huge. Standing at the base looking up at this granite wall I was struck by how minuscule and insignificant I felt...then all I could think about was climbing it. Today we had a very tiny sampling of the Nose route by climbing the first pitch. It was fun, and supposedly a 5.6 (that means easy, usually), but run out and scary, or I was off route, we're not sure. There was a team of climbers ahead of us hauling up gear for a four day ascent of the Nose. Lots and lots of gear. On a photography note, this was taken with my 28 mm lens, so it's not as wide of a shot as my 18-55mm would have taken, but I left that lens in the car by mistake. Speaking of mistakes, Nell and I were playing around with night shots the night before and left the ISO at 1600, and I forgot to change it back to 100, so this shot is a bit grainy.