MAY 4 2008
Arrived in the valley...the weather was cold and rainy but we're psyched to here. The drive wasn't to bad. Little scary at parts.
Camp 4 was welcoming. The site was covered with trees and there was room in the bear boxes for food. Went to bed early, and I was psyched on it.
MAY 5 2008Got up and ate oatmeal. Garret and Molly arrived at a decent hour. Glad they're here. Started climbing on COMMITTED 5.9. It was 2 pitches of easy 5.7 and one move of 5.9 went fairly easy and the only downfall was a slow party ahead of our group of 6.
JW, Grace, Hailey, and tony got here after 17 hours of being on the road. >Glad to see them and so happy to hear they are safe.
Went to Jam Crack next where Sarah, Tony, and Beth all got some hood leads. I did a 5.8 & a 5.7 ok lead and TRed a 5.10d pretty sweet stuff. Burritos for supper,tea for dessert and now off to bed.
MAY 6 2008Climbed Royal Arches today. Its 16 pitches and really good. Sarah learned, cried, laughed,and loved the whole thing. It pushed her to her mental limit and brought her back. It was great got stuck behind a slow moving party of kanooks but all was well. The route took us 10 hours. 7 pitches left to climb.
MAY 7 2008
Rope swing.
Check photos and video for documentation. Crazy fun, crazy bloody and crazy exciting. Garrett so far is doing good. Maybe a slight confusion, probably a handful of stitches, but so far he says he's fine.
Post Script:
Garrett took 12 staples to his scalp. Cody popped a tendon and now we're all just going to relax. Our new friend Steve has been very entertaining, teaching us games and showing us all sorts of fun things. JW has a stone monkey who has fallen in love with him. Kinda funny. Steaming some chicken and veggies for dinner. Should be good.
MAY 8 2008
Led a 5.10a and I sewed that thing up. Kinda scary but got the onsight. Felt good waited a few hours to get on 5.8 that was long and awesome called Bishops Terace, hands to fists to fingers to lie back. It had it all. Fin stuff.
Cody but on a uniform and got us half off pizza last night pretty good.
Met some kiwi's that are pretty cool. Newman is giving one of em a ride to Moab. Pretty sweet. I think that grace is digging one of them named johnny. Off to bed more to come.
MAY 9 2008
Hiked up to vernal and Nevada falls today. Went with Beth and Cody. Got up and came back down pretty quickly. We walked back instead of taking a bus to get a better view of royal arches. Good thing we did, we ran across a bear, and then we ran across a heavyset park ranger looking for a creature who took a picnic basket.
All pretty comical for us.Dinner rolled around and me being the clumsy fool that I am, spilled an entire pot of spaghetti.
MAY 10 2008
Shut down two years in a row. I never thought that I would be projecting a 5.8 for three years. Stupid nut cracker: climbed the first two pitches in under 30min and then waited for an hour fro pitch number 3, climbed up and waited while the party ahead of us had only climbed .5 of the pitch above us. I lowered off a sketchy half anchor and then we raped off. In the mean time a party of 2 came up behind us, then a party of 5. Can’t believe it. Lucky for me the party behind of us brought back my sling and a carabineer.
MAY 11 2008
Drove home, listened to a CS Lewis book on CD. Sarah and Beth bought some tasty licorice…
