ancient art

Anybody who's played on the beach has done the whole wet-sand-castle-of-drops thing. Well, that is exactly what must of happened when the Fisher Tower's were created. Recently one of these petrified mud towers has exploded in popularity due to a certain Citibank credit card commercial featuring Ancient Art and it's corkcscrew summit (although those overhangs she's climbing are not on this route). 

Thanks Leslie for watching Liesel so we could get out together! Us at the base of the climb right after gearing up and pounding some string cheese. 

The climbing on this tower was surprisingly easy (said by the person who top-roped everything). The chimney (can you spy B in green?) was almost like a ladder. Which made the fun factor very high. 

Here we are at the last little pitch. Walking across the "sidewalk" is somewhat hairy (you can see that on the commercial), then you belly flop on top of the diving board (that bird beak thing I'm pointing to). Then you climb right up and (ideally) stand up on top. The anticipation was worse than the execution however (said by the girl who only knelt on top). 

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And for anyone who saw the superbowl halftime show with the slackliner-- he was right across the way from us doing THIS and it was pretty crazy to watch (it's teaser footage, so it's a little confusing. . . but he's walking on webbing like a tightrope and then jumping off with a parachute on his back called basejumping).