Ahhhhh Moab. The land of milk and honey. Shangri-La. The chosen place... FOR OUR ROCKING WINTER CLIMBING SHENANIGANS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Friday, Feb 12 two goofs pile into a Subaru and head for Utah. These goofs are set on climbing pebbles. Big ones. And they are set on doing this in Moab.Rich and I arrived in Big Bend around 3 and decided camp could wait. There were rocks to be climbed! We warmed up, and then messed with Blankity Blank and it's arete brother.
Sends were enjoyed, and it was a good opening to the trip. However, Rich made a HUGE sacrifice. He threw his pad in the puddle so that we could climb those lines.We also got on Chaos and started messing with different beta for hopes of mid-trip sends.
This ended up to be a running joke for the trip. (yes, that is Rich attempting to remove mud from his crash pad using an ice scraper...and it worked!)
Once camp (creepy) was set, we headed to town for dinner and called fool-faces who were en-route for the weekend.
Diggs, and the Shay-Nimmerow mutants (Flan and Asher) showed up that evening and enjoyed swapping stories and ribbings by the fire.
So yea... That's it. End of Day one. How can I have a climbing post with only one shot of climbing in it you might ask?
Easy. I'm saving all the Gnar for the future posts. Here's a preview:
Rich has clearly had too much coffee, and me... NOT ENOUGH.
Even though I started the day on the slow train, more climbers arrived in the night, and some seriously fun times ensued the following morning.Exhibit A:
Oh yes. The climbing went down. Just wait. You'll see.
P.S. That makes TWO climbing shots for the post. (LOOK OUT!)
Photos by Situner and Diggs
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Yay Moab!
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