I wandered back over to an area known as the Wind Tower and soloed a handful of routes, including Breezy and the amazing Wind Ridge, which felt so good; I did three laps up and down. My wanderings brought me back to bouldering at the base of the Roof Routes under the Redgarden Wall until the sun heated up the greasy footholds and bees popped out between my knuckles during a fingerlock. It was then that Steven Dieckhoff showed up in time to stop me from getting into any more trouble and kindly pointed me toward steadier classics. The best of these was another Erickson route put up as an onsight solo in 1972 called Blind Faith. This two-pitch crack system is absolutely stunning, but also a lesson in Eldo crack climbing. Apparently the cracks are used for protection since plenty of holds surround them, advice I blindly ignored as I stuffed my hands into insecure positions even when forced to straddle an arête that created a round of scrapes reminiscent of a drunken moment in a brothel of cats.