January Update

Today everyone (but me) went to Moe's Valley to boulder. I had to/got to stay with my Kindergarten class for my practicum. Oh the joys of responsibility. :) I really did have fun teaching, but now I am home with nothing to do, so I decided to review some of our January adventures with a quick post. As you may have noticed from the previous posts there has definitely been a lot of Moe's Valley climbing! We love it. On Martin Luther King day we were going to take advantage of the school vacation at Moe's once again, but it was raining. Of course it rained in St. George of all places on my one free weekday haha. Since we couldn't climb we decided to go on a hunt for the Santa Clara boulders. The desert was bright and beautiful in the rain! It was a great day for hiking, although a little moist, and I thoroughly enjoyed myself!

After hiking for almost 2 hours we found the Great Valley! :) (Apparantly we are not too old or mature to pretend we're in the Land Before Time. What can I say the movie's a classic?!)
Turns out it was a little valley on top of the plateau that was beyond the plateau that was beyond the plateau that was above the valley where we originally thought the boulders were! It was quite a hike finding them, but there were definitely a TON of boulders when we finally got there. We found a few problems that looked like they might have potential, but none of the classic looking lines Casey has seen in pictures on other blogs. Maybe one of these days we'll make our way back to search them out and do some bouldering!

A week later we made our way to Salt Lake for the SCS Nationals at Momentum. It was a fun trip visiting family and of course the climbing was very inspiring!

Sasha Digiulian finishing the women's route for the win! Magnus Midtboe, the men's winner, making his way to the top!