This will be a quick re-cap of the handfull of days we spent in Saint George. We have been wrapped up in Sierra high mountain climbing that unfortunately we have fallen behind on keeping the blog up to date.
Saint George led us into scortching hot weather (somewhere around 100 degrees) allowing us to really only be actively climbing from about 8AM until noon, any later and the rock would get so blistering hot that your feet would nearly melt in your climbing shoes. We hung around an area called the phrophesy wall which was right up our alley. This wall was all bolted muli-pitch sport climbs.
Sam leading up a pitch, looking down at Ash belaying him
Cool exposure on a 5.7, 2 pitch climb (sticky revelations)
After early afternoon hit we had to call it quits before our skin boiled off in the sun. We retreated to sitting out next to the resevoiur and soaking up some rays, for hours, and hours, and hours. We had to cool down before the heat killed us, so decided to jump in and take a swim across the water. Such a relief to not be profusely sweating for a brief moment. When the sun finally decided to set across the desert sky, it provided for one of the most beautiful sunsets to take in.
Crawdad Canyon is an entirely unique one of a kind climbing areas to go to. It is a privately owned canyon that is lined with a few hundred bolted sport routes. Spent a day here getting pumped and working through some moves and playing around on some fun routes. It's kind of a novel concept to have the name and route rating posted on a plaque on the base of each climb. Pretty much eliminates any sort of confusion on the difficulty that you are intending on climbing. I'd say the only downside of this place is that you have to pay to climb here, obviously there are perks as well but it's only justifiable to be here for about a day as it costs $8 per person to climb.
Next up... MT. WHITNEY! stay tuned :)
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