President's Day Weekend

After too many weekends without climbing, we had a GREAT long weekend for President's day! Mashery (a.k.a. Matt, Ashley, Parker, and Tommy) came down and we stayed at Matt's sisters house in St. George.  It was so wonderful just getting out and forgetting about school, work, etc. On Saturday we went to Black and Tan and climbed at Kelly's Wall for a few hours. It was there that we had an epiphany! Sport climbing is perfect for us right now!! Well mostly for Casey coming off a finger injury. I might still need some convincing to get super psyched about it. It will be fun to change focus for a while and build our endurance! We have some big plans. 

Here are some pics. Awesome gray limestone with horizontals and runnels!

 Parker was pretty excited about doing some bouldering! I think he especially loves chalk.

 Nice resting spot!

 I discovered that Joshua trees are entertaining photography subjects.

 Sunday we had a nice rest day in St. George. Casey and I went to Pioneer Park and hiked through the crack. Boy was that place crowded! Who wouldn't love to spend their weekend in sunny St. George?

Monday morning we met Greg, Chelsea, Jens and Vonae at Moe's for a little bit of bouldering.

 We hopped over to Chuckawalla in the afternoon to get in a few laps on a rope.

 I'm not sure why this picture popped up clear down here. Oh well! It's still pretty cool. The sky was perfect!!

 And this is obviously back at Moes.

A Nice Solo Day for Tommy

Day trip to Joe's Valley from Tommy Rigby on Vimeo.

Paragonah/Little Creek Canyon Clean Up Day

Yesterday we had our first official Paragonah bouldering clean up day. I believe the consensus was that it was a success! In a matter of only about 4-5 hours we managed to clean and establish three quality boulders and sent a few great problems with more projects in the process. The rock quality is good and the movement was great. From our first impression we think it will be better than the Wash. Plus there is still a TON more potential! There are a lot of boulders in the canyon that we'd like to clean and put up problems on, and we were looking at Google Earth this evening and discovered that the next canyon over (Red Creek) looks maybe even more promising! Thank you to everyone who came and helped! It was a great day. We are looking forward to many more!

Seth climbing the first problem of the day. "The Nothing" We haven't really established grades yet. After a little more traffic we'll be able to get a better consensus on the grades.

Derek climbing a cool warm-up and cleaning while he goes!

 Me on the start of the same warm up. "Step One."

 Amy also climbing "Step One."

 Casey and Seth did a little cleaning on this boulder that is right by the creek. The start needs to be dug out a little and the ground was frozen. Plus it was wet so it will have to wait for another day. The sloping rails look pretty awesome though! The rock is perfect. So solid.

A very cool problem that has yet to be sent. Very gymnastic, slopey, compressiony...

 Derek's new line "Lavar Burton." Nice sharp sidepully features.

 My f.a. "Reading Rainbow." Really cool opposing sidepulls to a nice crimp scar. Another great one. It's not over until you've climbed up and over the 50 foot rainbow and made it to the ground on the other side!

Feeling motivated to join us for our next session yet?!!! 

Or you can go check it out by yourselves if you so desire... 

But we'll definitely be going back.

Vegas Photo Dump

 Well this all happened a while ago, but here are the Red Rock Canyon bouldering pics. It was a very fun trip and Tommy tore the place apart sending Timmy's Problem V9, Tailpipe V9, and Desert Rain. The latter being one of the most incredible boulder problems I've touched.