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.

Save the Date

Alright folks, whip out your calendars, grab a pencil and mark February 11th. We are going to have a cleaning/developing/bouldering day at Little Creek Canyon. It is just northeast of Paragonah and we are excited to get this place going! Casey and I went to check it out a few years ago and thought it looked pretty neat, but got distracted with life I guess. Casey went back a few weeks ago and we are stoked to get the ball rolling! Come join us for the adventure of a lifetime. The more the merrier. Bring your friends, your pads, any cleaning supplies you have, snacks, and a great attitude!

Casey's really excited about this:

And I can't wait to get my brushes and hands on this little guy. I could use a good tufa in my life.

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Oh yeah, and maybe a prayer for good weather will be helpful too. Just in case. :)

And if you are traveling and need a place to stay we would be more than happy to host you!

Exploring

Today Casey and I got done with our homework early so we hit the road for some bouldering exploration! One of his geology professors said he found some good quality boulders near Paragonah so we went to check them out. Turns out there are some pretty good ones! We figured we found about 18 potential bouldering problems and there are probably more. Some of the rock was really chossy but there was also some of decent quality. It's a pretty cool place if you want to go check it out and climb some stuff! We haven't climbed anything yet but it looks like it would be a lot of fun. We're hoping we'll have a free Saturday before it gets too cold when we can spend some time cleaning and climbing.

The setting is really pretty! There is a stream that flows near the road that some of the boulders are right next to and the rock is beautiful with lots of colors.

Stay tuned for pictures from our trip to Joe's Valley!