maple canyon

Well it's been a bit quiet around here for the last week or so. The weekend of the 23rd we looked for a VW bus to take on the trip and had the check engine light looked at on the Honda. We found an awesome VW eurovan camper for the pricey tag of 18k, but man was it sweet. Totally decked out on the inside with great storage, water, two burner stove. This thing had it all and we're both pretty excited about getting one. We're not going to buy it anytime soon, but it does look like we could travel in style if we opted for it.

On sunday we went fishing with out friend Chris at Deer Creek. We all had a nice time fishing, but we just couldn't get anything to bite. The view of Mt Timpanogos was really nice. We're definitely better climbers that fishermen, and I think I was spoiled by the salmon in alaska. Salmon were always biting my lures, but here I think the fish get caught so much they are much more wary. And my lack of skill doesn't help either.

This sunday we headed to Maple Canyon to climb. It's such a nice area, and it's only an hour away. The climbing in Maple is probably some of the most unique in the world. It's cobblestone climbing and lots of it is vertical or slighty to extremely overhanging. Pump is the name of the game and Cassie and I found ourselves wrestling with a climb that she onsighted and I flashed a year ago. Apparently our endurance is not what it used to be thanks to all the bouldering. Oh well, there's always next weekend, and we are definitely headed back. We both are totally capable of redpoint (climbing without hanging or falling) climbing in the 11 range, we just haven't tried enough yet. I think with a little persistence we'll both climb one soon.

Hope everyone out there is enjoying summer. Take care. We'll probably take pictures of our excursions one of these times ;)