A goal of the trip, from the beginning for me has been to climb at some of the classic sandstone climbing-Mecca destinations in the desert southwest. We happened upon Indian Creek by surprise last fall, but were pushed out by weather. Similarly, we had been thwarted by weather when we […]
We’ve been a bit absent from the blog for the past two months. After Thanksgiving in the Seattle area, we began the long drive towards Florida so that I could visit with my best friends, and since then we’ve been on an east coast social tour. #Vanlife has been different than […]
On our way from the Moab area south to the Needles District of Canyonlands National Park in Utah, we met with some distractions. Namely, the highway in to the main Needles District ranger station goes through Indian Creek. For climbers, you will know that this is one of the climbing […]
I had heard of Smith Rock through occasional highlights from the American Alpine Club, but didn’t know much about it. From the Mountain Project page, I could tell it was a big area, and after looking a bit, I could see that it was mostly a Sport climbing crag, […]