Mt. Diablo and a Jacked up Wrist

So on Sunday, Lisa and I decided to do a little light climbing out at Mt. Diablo. The afternoon started well. We had to run to San Francisco because I had to do a little work at a terminal of a machine that didn’t want to connect to the network before we went, but that only took like 10 minutes. When we got to Diablo, we both realized that we have no idea where in the hell we are going so we decided to roam around the park and mark things in the GPS. We stayed in the Rock City area and there were a ton of people on the main paths. We stumbled upon Sentinel Rock and decided to go off the path and hike to the bottom of it. Once we got to the bottom after quite an adventure we found a quiet spot and put our stuff down. We decided to climb a bit of it and just have some fun on our first outdoor climb together. So I did a hard little problem on the side of the rock face.

As I went to move to the next position my right foot slipped and all my weight was on my right hand and the tiny ledge. I heard a snap in my wrist that seemed to hurt for a second and then went away.  I finished the problem and all was fine. Then Lisa decided to do a taller and easier route on the wall. As lisa was cleaning her start holds, a shower of yellow droplets came down the rock face… What is yellow, and smells like piss? You got it, someone was pissing off of a cliff above! If you know Lisa, you can only imagine how mortified she was. Luckily, the scream caused the shower to stop and the golden river flowed a less resistant path down the rock face about 10 yards away. Lisa climbed the rock anyway (partly because I think she was going to go and kick some ass but they were gone… I have never seen her climb that fast).  Then she came down and I did the route.

By this time we had been in the park a couple of hours and it was time to head home. So we trekked back using the GPS and followed a different trail. It was very pretty. We got back to the car and headed home. When I got home, my wrist started hurting… it just got worse and worse… I don’t know what I did to my wrist but it still hurst really bad today. I had to wrap it up just to make it feel better. I think I am going to see the doctor about it later this week. All in all though, it was a really fun Sunday afternoon and I would say it was worth the hurt wrist.