Moe's Valley and our return to Utah

Moes Valley

Well we've been on the road for 9 months now. After all this time traveling and meeting new people we were starting to feel a bit homesick for our old friends in Salt Lake City. With that in mind we left Red Rocks over a week ago and headed to Moe's Valley in St George, Utah to do some bouldering before making the push up I-15 back to SLC.

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Nikki on a sweet arete

We had a good week at Moe's with Cassie sending two v6 projects pretty easily. I focused on two projects that I never really thought I would be strong enough to climb. I got really close, but did what is called a "dab" which means as you are climbing a foot touches what is essentially the ground. Given that this provides assistance it's not a clean send and can't really be counted. That being said I'm still quite happy to get so close on another v8 and v9. We met two really cool people from New York who are on an extended road trip and are moving to Portland in the next year or so. Ian and Nikki are both really strong climbers and are fun people to hang out with. We all enjoyed having smores over the campfire and falling off of projects. Hopefully we will see them again someday. It's always so great to make new friends, and then sad when you have to part ways.

Settlers of Katan

We left Moe's and headed to SLC. Our friend's Mark and Suzi let us crash at their place for a few nights and it was great to have a house,bed shower and excellent meals! We had our crew of friends over for a Friday night slideshow and video. The Bishop video was premiered and I think it was a success. It was a blast to catch up with them and see faces we recognized. Makes us think SLC is definitely on the short list of places to come back to. We all made plans that evening to head to Triassic the following weekend.

Dinner with Louise

After that we took care of some stuff in town and headed to our friend Louise's house in Spanish Fork. We ended up staying a bit longer than expected because of bad weather which was fine with all of us. It gave us a good excuse to bake lasagna, bread, and drink a couple of bottles of excellent wine. Good conversation and good company. Surprising how much you crave these things after many months on the road.