happenings at the Wash

Sheralee sending Peteland V4

Bryce throwin' the Bowling Ball V7

Kestri getting way close on Peteland V4

a few more from the Turtle Wall

Here are a few more pictures from our Easter weekend at Turtle Wall. It was especially fun because my family came and we had Ashley and Parker there as well. I even convinced my dad to try climbing a little!

Dad

Brother
Mom

Page

Since then we have gone back one time and I redpointed Director of Human Affairs. My first 11! Casey worked the 5.13a and did it in two hangs! It will be fun to watch him redpoint it soon!

Easter Break at the Turtle Wall

Here are a few pictures from our day at Turtle Wall on Friday. We love the beautiful St. George weather!!! It was a successful day for everyone! Matt flashed Dancing Fox, Director of Human Affairs, Lambada, and Banana Dance. Casey flashed Lambada and Dancing Fox, and started working The Actual Parchments. He quickly pieced it together. It will go down next time! Page also had an eventful day flashing Director of Human Affairs and Banana Dance, and redpointing Dancing Fox. Andy flashed Director of Human Affairs and almost flashed Lambada in his tennis shoes with a sprained ankle! Greg redpointed Pinching Bird "Poop." :) I didn't actually redpoint anything, but I'm still satisfied with the progress I made and will get Director of Human Affairs next time and Banana Dance soon. I will post the rest of the pictures when I get a free day again. It might not be until the semester ends in a couple of weeks but I will try!

Spring Break Part II

This post is long overdue, but here it is nonetheless!

We spent our final day of spring break at the majestic and desolate land of Ibex. It was the most perfect day I have ever experienced there! The weather was perfect and we had a great day of climbing. Casey sent Tranced Out and Dreamin v6 on his 2nd go and I did the v3 stand start. He also sent Topus Left v6, Agua Nile low v7, and J v7. I sent a few other fun problems as well, just can't remember what they're called.

Can't wait to go again!

Moe's Valley Comp & Trail Building Event

Saturday morning I woke up bright and early with expectations of going on a dinosaur field trip with Casey's geology class. Little did I know what the day had in store for us!
The trip was cancelled due to bad weather, so we were free to go south for the Moe's Valley Competition and Trail Building Event hosted by Desert Rat Productions. In an effort to preserve the area, the day started off with cleaning and building trails leading to the different bouldering areas. After some lunch the comp began. They gave everyone a card with 10 spaces to fill in boulder problems and a place to mark how many times it took you to send it (up to 5). They divided us into different divisions after they got the score cards at the end of the day. They didn't say how they chose to divide it up or how they ended up scoring it.... but it was a fun day of climbing! And most importantly
congratulations to Casey for winning!!! He took first place in the advanced division and won a new pair of 5.10 climbing shoes of his choice.
Also,
congratulations to Zach for taking second place!! He got a sweet new hangboard (just like mine I got for Christmas...it's cool).
And...
congratulations to Kestri for taking first place in the beginners division!! She also got a very cool new hangboard!
Way to represent Cedar Crew!!!!

Spring Break Part I

Sunny skies and warm weather made for a perfect spring break! Casey and I made our way to Salt Lake for the week and were met by great climbing temperatures at Little Cottonwood. We had a fun, successful time despite the fact that it was muddy and soaking wet everywhere. I loved the chance to take off jackets and beanies and soak up the sun!

Tuesday Casey sent Barfly V8 on his first go!

I sent Standard Overhang, a very fun, very cool V3!

Bridget and I worked on Double Dyno. Fun! but no send yet.

Kestri tore it up on the All Thumbs boulder!

And Bryce is strong!

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!