Evans...Again...Cuz It's Awesome...Shut-up.

Ok Kids.

I don't know if you can handle this, but this is a CLIMBING POST!

Tried bierstadt again on Thursday. T.J. set forward an alternate reality...In which I sent first go...and which SHOULD have been actual reality.

Bummer. Didn't happen. Oh well. There's more juice where that came from right? Wrong. Dave was looking extremely strong on the problem, and I thought he was going to send right away too. Wrong.
Suck.
Anyone seen Boondock Saints?
"Wyatt-Fucking-Earp" Anyway, we ended up enjoying another "suess the beta" session immensely. There is no such thing as a bad day bouldering when it is cool out, sunny, and you are around people that make you laugh to the point of urinating your prana pants.
No, REALLY. We climbed the thing for hours and are both prepared for a rested assault with what we have learned.
(Mainly, we learned this bitch is within reach, and we both need to do it.)

T.J. spent some time with "ground control", which was close, and was climbing. I think he was mainly trying it so that Dave and I didn't feel guilty that he sat under our project all day, but whatever. So this piece of chos...AHEM...granite-heaven turned out to create a mini-epic for us.

T.J. and Dave spent some time cleaning up holds, and then tried it out.

Unfortunately, after sending the stand start, Dave tried the sit and broke a hold off into his and T.J.'s faces, cutting the top of Dave's wrist pretty severely, and T.J.'s ankle a bit.

Sketch.

After patching Dave up, he stopped bleeding enough to hang-out for a while. (he's a trooper)

Dave ended up with a few stitches in his arm, and a pretty F-ING SWEET campfire story for years to come.

We also ran into Chris Shulte while we were up at area B, and got to watch him send a pretty sweet new arete problem.

This thing looks like so much fun! The pictures don't convey the striking nature of this feature. It is freakin COOL!

The good news is, he reports it as being between 7 and 10. Maybe in my "kill-zone", maybe not. Either way, I'm psyched to try, and it's a pretty damn cool line!

Nice Work Chris!!!!

So yea... Another amazingly beautiful day at Mt. Evans. The season is growing short kids. If you plan on getting up there, you better do it soon. As you can see in the photo, the scrub-oak is shedding leaves, and the aspens are turning.

IT IS THE ELEVENTH HOUR!!!! HOPEFULLY SENDS COMING SOON!