At 4:00AM on January 2nd just North of the Mexican border, Jordan Cannon and I woke up in the back of my cramped Prius cluttered with enough climbing gear to see us up the biggest wall in North America: El Gigante. Our objective was a route called Logical Progression (5.13 28 pitches 1,000m). This route had been a dream of mine since first hearing about it in 2015, and we were finally about to make it a reality. The moment we opened the door of the car we knew something was wrong. There was six inches of snow on the ground, when on average it snows less than one inch per year. I’m not one for superstition, but that sure felt like a bad omen. Unfortunately, it was very indicative of what was to come. After a brief mishap at the border crossing where Jordan and I accidently drove the