part I: Confidence

To get to the top of Cathedral Ledge sends one up a road about a mile long that rises about 800 feet. The first time I climbed this road I was taken on a tour of a bit of the granite which protrudes through the dirt and pine needles at the top of the cliff.

The first image shows the road, but without a good sense of it's incline. I was fairly confident that the road wouldn't do me in. (It was sort of difficult though.)

This next image is me in the process of wangling my way onto a granite cap.