The climb I just did on the route Lost World in Yosemite was phenomenal.   Even though we weren't able to make it to the top, the climb was one of those lifetime experiences I will never forget.
 
We were on El Capitan for six nights and seven days.  The day we started, Friday, May 27th, we had a pretty good weather report, with a 20% chance of rain in two days and then improving weather.  What a joke that was.  The 20% turned into a real storm, with rain and then snow and a couple of good bolts of lightening.  

The first bolt, about 10 at night, I was completely covered up in my sleeping bag, my eyes closed and under a heavy rain fly.  I heard this whoosh, which sounded like a whip, the explosion of the thunder and the brightest flash I'd ever experienced.  After the initial explosion, I could hear the thunder echoing back and forth down Yosemite canyons for a good 10 to 15 seconds.  It was the coolest lightening and sound experience I've ever encountered.
 
The weather instead of improving, was just one storm after another.  We were very well equipped and wearing very good rain gear.  One of the days we were hailed on the entire day.   My climbing partner "Piton Pete" from Toronto, kept calling it snow, but is was 1/4" hail.  Because we were wearing helmets it didn't hurt, but made it damn difficult to look up, since it was hitting us in the eyes. We had enough hail, if we could have caught it, to build a snow man.  
 
Finally on Wednesday night June 1st after already experienced three storms, we got a weather report saying an even bigger storm was coming in for Saturday and Sunday.  Thursday morning June 2nd, we decided it was time to call it quits.  Mother nature had gotten the best of us.
 

Although for the most part the weather was lousy, it made for spectacular pictures.  I had three cameras with me, one lent to me by Canon with an awesome 16 - 35, 2.8 lens on a 5D MkII body.  I shot the most when the weather wasn''t so great.  It was a totally awesome experience, and I can't wait to show the photos, once I have a chance to edit them.

If you want to see a write up about our climb, go to:  http://www.supertopo.com/tr/Lost-in-the-Weather-on-Lost-World-PTPP-Bails/t11029n.html