Mid May I found time for a full day trip out to Lover's Leap with Craig Black ( Level 1 Rope Access Tech ) of Gardnerville, NV. We decided to climb a fun route for our first multi pitch as direct partners with each other. We arrived at the Hog's Back formation around noon and ascended the 5.6 route known as Deception, considered the best line on the Hog's Back. The first pitch was really more just class 5 hiking, but the real crux came near the end of pitch two in the form of a 5.7 finger crack section with sparse protection. Both mountain project and super topo consider this variation of the route to be a grade harder and much more interesting than the main crack formation, that's one word you could use to describe the section... Overall we had a blast as seen below. We also got the chance to test out Craig's latest idea, renovating a 70's van for camping/climbing.
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