Ascents in Albuquerque by Ike Miller

14.5 hours car to car. With Mark. Mark led pitches 1, 2, 5, 7, 10, & 12; I led pitches 3, 4, 6, 9, & 11. We unroped for pitch 8. I clipped loose and rusted pitons, slung trees, almost pulled a microwave-sized block onto myself, wiggled up strange slabby off-widths—in other words, had a full-on Sandia day!

10.5 hours car to car. With Denise! Led all pitches except for the first half of pitch 4, which Denise led. Combined the first two pitches on accident. Simul-climbed from the top of pitch 4 on.

First time top rope soloing. Used a lift and a micro trax. Did 10 laps, trying to contrive as many variations as possible.

Led pitches 1 & 3 clean, followed pitches 2 and 4. Hung on the rope briefly on pitch 2 when trying to get a half-stuck cam out. Mark wanted to do the 5.10a final pitch variation, but we wound up doing the 5.8 because a deep fog had filled the canyon and we didn't want to get stuck in bad weather. Pitches 1 and 3 were my first 5.8 trad leads. Pitch 1 felt fun and comfy, pitch 3 felt like it was right on the limit for me.

Didn't seem like this gets climbed too often (lichen and mud in a lot of the cracks, some loose rock), but it was a fun route! I led the first and third pitches, Mark led the second. The second pitch was my first experience with off-width climbing. I enjoyed it, but was also glad it was short and I wasn't on lead.

I led the first pitch, Mark led the second. The climbing on the first pitch was easy, but gear was a little hard to come by (at least to my still somewhat untrained eye). On the second pitch Mark climbed above the obvious 5.6 rightward traverse to create a much more difficult traverse on tiny footholds immediately under the roof. Some fun spice to end the climb!

Super clean and continuous crack and it's fun to follow a single line all the way up. We split it into two pitches, I led the first and Mark the second.

Followed Mark. Fun route! Would like to come back and lead it

Tried to lead the first pitch but it seemed too spicy for where I am currently as a trad leader. Got up to the top of the wide-ish crack below the layback and then decided to downclimb. Followed Mark on both pitches. Very fun climbing, especially the lieback! We had some routefinding difficulties on pitch two

Not unfun, but not a blast either. Crux was an awkward mantle right above the first bolt.