Wilson & the Great Cellphone COVID Caper

Pics by Harlan W S & Karla K
March 24, 2021

Back story: 6 weeks before, Karla climbed Wilson for her 1st time, starting at noon. She came down in darkness and lost her cell phone. I was still weak from a severe case of COVID-19, and wouldn't be ready to help for a bit.

So this was the day. This time we had an alpine start (10AM). We made the top in 3h 43m by the Red Gully/Hidden Bowl route, and came back along First Creek to look for the phone. And Karla found her phone is a hidden brushy area!

COVID still nags at me. I lost my voice late in the day, had brain fog (nearly leading to some very bad decisions), and was strangely tired the next day.

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Our route
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zoomed out for
context
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I've been up Wilson
by many routes. 1st
Cr, certainly not the
hardest, is perhaps
the most obnoxious
with mondo boulder-
hopping and brush.
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Karla comes up
rabbit hole
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Popping out of
rabbit hole
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Starting up to
Red Gully
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Near crux of Red
Gully. It's much
steeper than it looks.
Pic by Karla.
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There is a sling at L
below my foot.
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The seemingly
endless slabs in
Hidden Bowl
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At the ridge at 6800'
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Summit!
Rainbow in L back,
Calico Hills at R,
La Madre middle.

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View S from summit,
Potosi in back.
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Summit back L
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South Wilsons
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Starting down 1st Cr.
Initially we thought
the phone was in this
stretch.
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Oops!
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Bottom of
rabbit hole
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Where Karla
found the phone.