Bouldering at Bunker

Our summer has been incredible!! We have lots of catching up to do. In the meantime, here are some pictures from Bunker Creek, our favorite local bouldering area lately. It's beautiful and there is a lot of potential for development still. During our "week off" of vacation (we have the life!) we spent a few evenings at the Meadows and the Springfield area. Summer bouldering can be tricky anywhere, but we've had fun and managed to snag a few sends despite the hot temps.

I can't ever resist a picture of a wildflower. We live in a beautiful world! 

Casey climbing a cool v5 we found at the Meadows

A v3 on the right side of the same boulder. It has a nice vertical face with quality, pocketed problems! We were happy to find it!

Casey on Steel Cage Death Match v11 at the Springfield area.

Cameron climbing Batman. A great v2 also at Springfield.

Casey's project, a low start to Flaming Mo.

Cameron working Abu. A fun V3 on the boulder facing Flaming Mo.

Johnno making his way up a tall slab.

We've started cleaning some new lines to further develop the area. 

This is Johnno on a cool looking new line!

As sad as it is to see our road trip end, we are excited to get back to finish up some old and begin working on some new lines at Bunker Creek and the surrounding areas.

Some Recent Stuff, and Ibex...of Course

Let's start with Tommy.  In September I gave him the goal of climbing a V8 or better each week until the first week of December.  This means 12 V8s or harder in 12 weeks. Tommy modestly accepted the challenge responding with something like, "There's no way! But I guess I'll try."  Well today is October 30th and Tommy has already completed his goal with 8 V8s, 4 V9s, and a V10! Basically the kid hasn't even touched his potential and will surely be pulling down CRAZY hard stuff really soon.

Zach has also come up with some impressive FA's as of late.  All of them being really nice additions to the Cedar City area.  In Bunker Creek he climbed this neat roof hidden amongst the titanic boulders.  He called this line "50 Degrees of Perfection" (V9) and I believe he considers it to be the best in the area.  Another amazing FA is the the Wash project.  It's a boulder that we found about two years ago and cleaned just this spring. It is really different from the other problems in the wash in the fact that it is gritty and climbs more features than face holds.  I think it's pretty neato! He named it "The Bounty Hunter" (V10).

Zach put this video together:

Southern Utah Episode 4: Fall First Ascents from Zach Bradford on Vimeo.

Last weekend we took another trip to Ibex for a few days.  It was especially nice because Sheralee's family came and brought their luxurious trailer for us to relax and poop in. Tommy and I tried Bruce Lee and the Atomic Bomb.  I feel pretty close on both, but they just keep managing to evade me. Maybe next time.  Then we climbed the White Arete sit, a beautiful boulder climb. Next we tried Bigger is Better, and it shut us down. Fortunately I was staying an extra day so the next day I managed to crawl up it.  I absolutely love that climb. Sheralee has also been climbing really well lately.  She climbed Captain Choss in two tries and nearly climbed this super fun V5 called the Blob, falling on the last move.

Bruce Lee: It won this round

White Arete Sit: Tommy murdered it

The Blob: Next time for sure Sheralee!

Ya I got guns!!

Cameron on this fun boulder rock

Bigger is Better: Love it!!

Nice view eh?

Brimmy!!

A little while ago our wonderful friends, Brimmy (aka Bridget and Tommy) came to visit/climb.  It was an epic weekend covering all the local Cedar bouldering areas.  On Friday night we climbed Flannigan until we were basically sleep-climbing zombies.  Then on Saturday we climbed at Bunker Creek and then the Wash until we no longer had fingertips, of course we continued to climb on bloody nubs until it was time for dinner. Unfortunately, we slacked on the photography.  We managed just these few pictures of the Meadows at Bunker Creek.

Bunker Creek - The Meadows

Trying to beat the heat bouldering in Southern Utah can be tricky business in July. One place that we quite enjoy, besides the bushwacking and terrible road, is The Meadows at Bunker Creek. It is a beautiful area with new climbs for us. It obviously doesn't get trafficked...a lot of the old problems could use some cleaning, and some of the new ones could use some cleaning too! But there is a bunch of potential to climb fun stuff! At 9000 feet it's one of the few areas in Utah that is actually climbable at this point. 

Casey's awesome proj. It will be one of the better/best boulder problems in the world (according to him...I can't climb hard enough to tell yet. But I trust his judgement.).

A little video we put together of some of our recent bushwacking adventures. Casey got the FA's on Cave Dwellers and Psychological Disorder.