Ya we are ready for Halloween this year Heather and I Carved some pumpkins.
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Utah Trip October 2008
Sleepless in Utah.
We started our journey down the road to the US after a great Petro Canada gas station breakfast sat morning. We drove past the boarder with a little delay from the anal US customs, we drove all the way past Salt lake City and slept in the ditch for a few hours and made it to Moab before any thing opened. We ate another greasy breakfast and then off to the gear store to pick up the guide book for the area. We spent the next two days climbing in the Moab area.
Day 3 we decide that we were in the mountain biking meca so we rented bikes and road the slick rock trail it was awesome. After the 13miles on the slick rock and the 3 miles on the practice look we decide that we wanted to ride a little more so we went across the valley and did another short ride. You would think that would be enough for the day but we had the great idea to go and check out Arches National park where we thought we could get a quick evening climb in. After driving and looking at the Arches we got to the climb and the wind was blowing hard across the desert so we pulled the pin on the climb and continued on the tourist program and took some photos from the car. That evening we went for bed early and hope to get up early and head to Indian Creek but we got the rude awaking from the police evacuating the camp ground because of a forest fire about 200 m from the camp ground so at 12:30am we stared to back up our camp and head off to the red cross shelter but we bailed and found some camping up at the slick rock trail and got back to bed at 1:30 am.
Day 4 we still made it to Indian creek at 10:00 just in time for the sun to come up and get the rock warm by noon we were climbing shirt less. Well not much to say about Indian Creek but we got school and the climbing was awesome!
I must THANK all the people who we borrowed cams from because with out the 100 cams we took down there would have been routes that were not possible. One route we did took 12 #2 and 3#3 cams wow that is a lot and boy “O” boy I used them all.
Well back to work and fun around the valley. Great trip and is a must do again.
We started our journey down the road to the US after a great Petro Canada gas station breakfast sat morning. We drove past the boarder with a little delay from the anal US customs, we drove all the way past Salt lake City and slept in the ditch for a few hours and made it to Moab before any thing opened. We ate another greasy breakfast and then off to the gear store to pick up the guide book for the area. We spent the next two days climbing in the Moab area.
Day 3 we decide that we were in the mountain biking meca so we rented bikes and road the slick rock trail it was awesome. After the 13miles on the slick rock and the 3 miles on the practice look we decide that we wanted to ride a little more so we went across the valley and did another short ride. You would think that would be enough for the day but we had the great idea to go and check out Arches National park where we thought we could get a quick evening climb in. After driving and looking at the Arches we got to the climb and the wind was blowing hard across the desert so we pulled the pin on the climb and continued on the tourist program and took some photos from the car. That evening we went for bed early and hope to get up early and head to Indian Creek but we got the rude awaking from the police evacuating the camp ground because of a forest fire about 200 m from the camp ground so at 12:30am we stared to back up our camp and head off to the red cross shelter but we bailed and found some camping up at the slick rock trail and got back to bed at 1:30 am.
Day 4 we still made it to Indian creek at 10:00 just in time for the sun to come up and get the rock warm by noon we were climbing shirt less. Well not much to say about Indian Creek but we got school and the climbing was awesome!
I must THANK all the people who we borrowed cams from because with out the 100 cams we took down there would have been routes that were not possible. One route we did took 12 #2 and 3#3 cams wow that is a lot and boy “O” boy I used them all.
Well back to work and fun around the valley. Great trip and is a must do again.
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