We awoke at around 7:30 a.m. to a view of a cloudy day. It seemed as if a massive storm front were making its way to the canyon. And we needed to to mobilize ourselves quickly because we had to work our out of the canyon and toward the parking area. That meant climbing Appalling Face, for total vertical gain of about 1,500 feet.
We skipped breakfast, packed all of our gear and made our way from base camp at about 8:30 a.m.
Within half an hour I made it to the base of Appalling Face. Jason an Daniel were already ahead of me. I was apprehensive about climbing the steep face, which supposedly had a grade of 50 percent, or about 30 degrees. But it sure seemed steeper than that.
Finding the trail itself wasn't always so easy because of the slope's steep angle, or maybe because I'm just short. With 40 pounds on my back, I took it slowly, because one slip on the slope could be disastrous.
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