Some Inbetween

Athena's Face!

Ended up moving, going to Freemont Canyon to see the eclipse (omg so life changing nothing will ever be the same... is NPR done talking about it yet please?), hitting Vedauwoo and Red Rock Canyon in the last couple months... here are a couple photos!

New place... pre paint. Super Yellow. All nice shades of grey now. Also put up some shelves. Much nicer now.

Our friend Jake came to visit from LA, here he is rounding the corner on Perversion.

Headed back from Micky Mouse Wall... waiting for the train to pass.

We were in Red Rock Canyon for Halloween... Athena dressed as a Crayon.  Here she is on top of Olive Oil looking crayon-ish.

The hike down from Olive Oil, if you go up a bit you can see over the back into the next canyon over.

Met a tiny little frog on the way down.

We spent a night in Vegas... went to see a tournament of kings. Awesome.

Moving with some cats.  Apollo killed our lavender plant by sitting on it for a number of hours.  The cold soon killed our lime tree as well.

Athena on top of the spy, a little sliver of rock on the right side of the first flatiron.

Up in Wyoming at Freemont Canyon for the eclipse.  Exceeded expectations, but... not the life changing experience everyone said it was.  I don't understand people that say these things are life changing - neat but thats it. Like the grand canyon! 

Slack liners above the canyon.

Athena trying Desiderata, super neat boulder problem in Vedauwoo

I also tried... somewhat less successfully.

Athena at Turkey Rocks

Hike down from Turkey Rock is always nice.

Dan Visits - The Maiden

Visited Athena in Boulder to look at houses and say hello.  Climbed the north face route while there... fun but lots of rope drag.

south-west face, crows nest is that low point

we took a... non traditional approach.  I thought my growing LA chub might get the best of me.

Peering out through the trees on the way up.

Athena on the pitch 1 traverse following. I got to climb this part twice! We couldn't get a tricam out of its placement... tricams suck to clean BTW.

View as you start the down/traverse part of pitch 1. The formation is so skinny that climbing up the back in this photo (east face... so front from boulder) it feels like you could take like three steps to get from one side to the other of the final slab.

The top is really much larger than you might think... and it had all these pools of water with SHRIMPY SHRIMP!! super cool.  Pools full of them. Also super odd... never seen them on top of any other flatiron formations.

Summit selfie. Micky mouse and Eldo in the background.

Athena on the rap down.