CITY!!!!

We, like everyone else, have been up to the usual, work, play, sleep, repeat. Due to weather we haven't gotten to go to the City of Rocks as much as Corey would like but we get out as much as we can. Here's how our last week of climbing has gone....

Monday last week we went down to Derkies and worked on Black thing, a pumpy, very over hung 11c. Corey lead and I followed making it all the way to the top taking breaks at each bolt because I am clearly not strong enough to make it the whole way in one shot just yet. The movement is fun and I can see why it is a popular route down there.

Then on thursday we invited my friend Laura and Tim to come with us for a very casual evening of climbing. They went and we all had a great time, or at least I did, I love seeing and spending time with friends. Laura I love you and hope you two had fun and that we'll get to do something again soon.

Friday Jeff, Pauline, and David came down from Nampa to tour CSI and then we all headed out to escape to the City of Rocks for the weekend. When we got there at 8 o'clock the first thing that we did was try and make it to the top of Little Time before dark, needless to say we forgot the head lamps (we had 1 tikka and 1 firefly) and only made it to the second pitch before the sun was gone and we all got to repel in the dark with the firefly as the landing light.

Sometime early Saturday morning Craig finally made it to us in one piece and slept in the back of his car. That morning we got up, snacked breakfast and headed out to Elephant rock to try Rye Crisp (Wheat Thin was busy).

From there we headed out to the back side of Window Rock, because we hadn't been there yet, and found some beautiful crack lines that were not to be passed up. This is one that we found that wasn't it the book. The start was a pain because there isn't much to hold on to, but it was really fun and a variety of techniques had to be used to get it.

The view from the top was amazing!!! It is always the best reward. In this picture you can see most of the upper City with Parking Lot rock in the near background, Bath in mid-background, and the Twin Sisters in the far distance.

Corey and my adopted husband, Craig even got to climb together this weekend. Most of the time one is belaying while the other is climbing but there were enough of us this trip that they finally got to see each other while on the rock. So one lead one route while one lead another side by side. Craig even climbed over to Corey's route to steal a piece of trad off of his harness, go figure.

The weekend was absolutely perfect. We even got a night climb in on Saturday night before we went to bed. It was very cool.