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by CHRIS VAN LEUVEN on JUNE 13, 2012
Recently, I was climbing at a nearly forgotten crag in Calistoga, California. Temps were in the 90s when we started the hour-long, steep switchback hike from the car to the base of the wall. Once at the routes, we dropped our packs and took hefty swigs of water from our bottles. A handful of pitches later we were nearly out. ‘It’s ok,’ we rationalized, ‘the hike is downhill, we won’t need any on the way back.’