The Past Weekend

Well the past weekend was quite an experience. Drew and I headed down to Boulder and met up with his friend Jordan from ISU who is now living in Boulder. We also crashed at my friends Dana and Jacob's place too which was awesome and I can't thank them enough for the floor to sleep on!

On to climbing though. While in Boulder the three of us, on Saturday, headed up to the Sport Park sector of Boulder Canyon and got on some really cool routes. Being that I'm still a little wimp about leading I didn't get any true sends although we were able to get on some super cool routes. Sunday we headed back up to Boulder Canyon and worked a few more of the routes that were in that same area we climbed on Saturday. We did this mainly though because we had three newer climbers with us and we wanted to have some nice moderates for them to get used to climbing on. I did end up leading a climb Sunday day too which was my best to date; a super overhung jug haul .11a. Maybe I'll get over my fear of lead climbing sometime soon. Here are a few pictures from the day taken with Jordan's camera:

Me on TR on the .11a that we thought was a .9:


The view from the Sport Park:



Jordan working the crux of a cool .10a:



Drew on the one move wonder .11d:


I will have some pictures of the .11a up as soon as Jordan puts them up on the facebook.

When Drew and I finally got back to Estes we had really not had enough climbing I guess so we went up on a whim to meet some other people from the Y at an area called Jurassic Park right over Lilly Lake outside of Estes. The hike kicked my ass. However, we were rewarded with one amazing pitch of 5.8 climbing that used up nearly all of my 60m rope! Here are a few shots from that session.

Me going up the 5.8:


The view from the top: