Eldorado - Yeti (6c)
Together with Dave, we had saved the date of our Eldorado weekend a while ago, and were delighted to see that the persistent rain of the past weeks should come to an end just in time! Full of ambition, we hiked in Friday night, deliberately ignoring the drenched trail, and the cloudy ambience. One dry night would make all the water streaks disappear, wouldn't it!? After 90 minutes hiking we arrived at the bivouac, which was dry, fortunately. Our access could have been slightly faster, if the dam trail had been open, but it seems that it will remain closed for the duration of the dam renovation. Anyway, we set the alarm to 4:30am in expectation of a long climbing day :) No issues during the night, just some mosquitos, and noisy air mats. Our (first) target of the next day was Septumania, but we were a bit disenchanted when we found that the beautiful water runnels actually carried water...who would have thought that!? Nevertheless, we pushed on, and somehow negotiated the first two ...