It's been a whirlwind 10 days in Utah! The recreation opportunities surrounding Salt Lake are plentiful and and grand. I spent a week with two friends, Jenessa and Landon, from Big Sky, then a weekend with my friend Lily from NCOBS. It was so nice to visit these people that I hadn't seen in so long, and it was especially nice to be sleeping indoors with AC!
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That's me top roping Errant Edge 5.10a in the Little Cottonwood Canyon. To the left one route, was a 5.7 trad lead called Squeeze My Lemon, then we hung the top rope to try the 10. This was moments after my arrival in Salt Lake. I love that- getting out just after arrival. Best way to experience a new area!
The next day, Landon and I went to Maple Canyon, where there is great conglomerate rock. I've never climbed on anything like it in my life, and it was so fun! Maple Canyon is all bolted sport climbs, and offers awesome multi pitch opportunities. This photo is of me at the top of The Dizzy Channel 5.8- which was 4 pitches.
This is Landon, we climbed together all week while his girlfriend Jenessa was working. I met Jenessa in the rental shop at Big Sky. It was so awesome to reconnect with these two and do some summer activities! Landon and I swung pitches all day and did 4 different multpitch routes at Maple Canyon, 13 pitches in one day!
Jenessa, Landon, the dog they were babysitting (Siggy), and I went for 2 days to City of Rocks in Idaho. This was at camp after the first day of climbing. City of Rocks was SO COOL, I definitely will be back. Jenessa brought her camera and got many amazing photos, so below is a gallery of climbing pics! Click on the first photo to see them full size and with captions.
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Salt Lake City has been a major highlight of this trip so far. That's because of all the awesome climbing I got to do while here! Next, I head down to Texas (!!) over the next week. From here on out, pretty much everywhere I am going is new territory for me, and that's super exiting. Still about a month and a half until I land in Montana for ski season, and things are going super well.
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