Slip and Crush!

Went out to Star Wall with Dustin Sabo Saturday morning. The whole summit was still cover in snow and we were planing on trying Canibals (12d) but the snow ruined that for us. Any ways we went out to Star Wall to go train since it is a slight over hang but just enough to keep the water off of us. The trail was covered in snow but not bad enough to make it hard on us to get out there, since we already did that once and we fell in like every 20 feet. Well to get to the wall you have to cross this little slab section. It was all covered and in my approach shoes that don't have tread on them didn't help me at all. I slipped and as a reaction I dug my hand into the snow covered rock. I was sliding down for a while till I finally stopped. I take my hand out and it was numb and I couldn't feel it. I shout to Dustin saying I slipped and my hand is numb. I later looked at my hand and saw that I was bleeding. I have severely chiped my nail and that it needed to rip it off. I get to the base of the crag and I showed Dustin. After that we warmed up on Cookie Mix (12a) then later did Warp Factor (13a) As a goal we set, doing Warp Factor five times in a row with out falling, we were determined to accomplish this goal. Dustin was close to doing it but fell at the last move due to being pumped. After watching him fall I got nervous, thinking that I wouldn't be able to do it. After doing it four times no one thought it would go because it was so hard. With Dustin setting the par high I knew I had to either do it or make it to the high point. I got on the route trying my hardest to get to the anchors. It was a fight to the finish and I gave it my all. I finished doing a 13a five times. After we finished that we did Cookie Mix four more times to do ten pitches in a day. We finally did one of our long term go to do ten pitches of 12a or harder and five of our pitches were 13a. We sure did gun it out there to become a better climber and to have fun. Some times you just need to gun it hard to accomplish your goals.