I Drew a Blank and Put it in a Frame: Back To Utah

Per usual Bishop has been awesome. Sometimes you even wake up to rainbows in front of the Sierras.

And sometimes your friends encourage you to dumpster dive. I've been wanting to get into it for a while but haven't had the confidence to start. My first dive was a huge success: cookies, danishes, muffins and 15 loaves of sourdough bread. Been giving away bread left and right!

I also bailed for the first time on a 5.9... It's a corner offwidth called Pratt's crack. I didn't have big enough gear to protect some sections and decided to just come down instead of going for it. Nice and humbling experience.

And then I did what I thought would never happen.. I left Bishop! I've got obligations back home and need to start working back East. Plus Christian and his family will be in Utah and it would be great to see them all.

I was going to slowly make my way to Utah then I ended up driving 12 hours straight to Indian Creek with the hopes of meeting up with friends from Colorado. Unfortunately they were leaving the day I got there, but I quickly made plenty of new friends instead. Two of them being a Canadian couple that Camille and I met in Mexico!

The cacti are in full bloom now and they're stunning.

For 5 days we climbed, trying lots of classics, easy and hard. My body is worked! We also setup a fixed line on Dos Hermanos so I could practice jumaring and photographing from above. I had forgotten how much fun it was and hope to have additional opportunities in the near future.