Friday, September 10, 2010

Vegas Baby!!!

Hannah willing skipped some classes and drove me down to SLC so I could catch and early morning flight to Vegas. Thank you Cody and Beth for giving us a place to crash! My flght was to depart at 8:30 in the morning. I was psyched when I was finally taking off the cold and snowy SLC International Airport...destination Vegas!Victor B, LG and MDub picked me up from the airport and headed straight to Red Rocks.

    Beautiful untouched wall on the wall to the Trophy


   LG, Mdub, and Victor B. at the Trophy


   LG sending Pet Shop Boys

After warming up, we headed over to the Trophy Wall. This wall is amazing, it sits high up on a slab and has long and short steep routes. The wind was very heinous(30mph), it blowing GriGris and rope bags around and kinda killing the motivations. Even with the wind, we all manged to do Keep Your Powder Dry and LG sent Pet Shop Boys 2nd go. We were sick of the wind and bailed back to Vegas for some dinner and chilling.

The next day we got up and were going to finish the Vegas portion of the trip with one last sesh at Red Rocks, but someone mentioned Mount Potosi. We were psyched. I was psyched to get back on limestone and Mount Potosi was a famous old school sport crag, a little chipped still fun as hell. We finally got to the parking area (thanks to LG's mad 4 wheeling skills) and the wind was calm and felt nice out. We underestimated the hike, it was ended being a 45 min trudge. For those of you  who climb in Lander, it was like hike up to Fairfield West...twice. Sorry, but climbers aren't that great at cutting trails, there were switchbacks every 3 feet. We finally made it up to the massive Clear Light Cave, pretty impressive.

  Clear Light Cave

 We warmed up on the Porcelain Wall then headed to the cave to find something. VB and I were psyched on Moment of Clarity, one of the best climbs I have done.  It was had pockets, tufas, crimps, and even a nice little knee bar to clip the anchors. Psyched do get it done, because the temps dropped to about 35 degrees F and even snowing a little on us. Luckily, some of the locals started a nice fire to keep everyone warm and sending countinued. I will come back to this place.
   Mdub on Moment of Clarity

    
 
    Victor B. hiking down with the Porcelain Wall and Clear Light Cave in the background

We head back in to nasty, busy, Lost Wages (Vegas) for some pizza and drinks and headed off to St. George. 

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