a month recap

Well it's been a bit since we've posted last. The lack of posts has not been because of lack of stuff that we've been doing. I'll attempt to recap the last 4 weeks to bring everyone up to date.

Cassie went ice climbing with the Utah Climbing Club back in early February and said it was the first time she didn't dislike ice climbing. That's a step up from our -10 degree days of swinging the ice picks in alaska, so it's a good thing. She went down to climb at Maple Canyon which is normally our rock climbing sanctuary as it has tons of good sport routes. In the winter snow falls on top of the canyon and melts down through channels forming low angle to steep waterfall ice. Perfect place for beginners as routes can be toproped.


The next few weekends were spent skiing and enjoying the fresh powder. Each weekend had pretty good conditions so we stuck around here instead of heading to the desert for climbing. Also since there was so much snow even the desert climbing was hit or miss.

My friend Chris and I did go to Ibex one day for bouldering. Cassie didn't come because herfriend Nicole was visiting from out of town so they ended up skiing that weekend.

I spent one day skiing with a new friend from my company's German office. Milos hand't been snowboarding in a while, but he picked it up again quickly and soon was tearing up the runs at Sundance.

Other than that we've just been climbing in the gym and trying to get in shape. Two weeks ago I took a big fall in the gym because I skipped a bolt and pulled slack out at the anchors, then let go (intentionally) to take a fall. I'm trying to get over that falling fear and I thought taking a big (30 foot) fall might do it. Unfortunately the rope ended up coming behind my leg (it wasn't behind my leg when I fell) and caused me to flip upside-down. I grabbed the rope in midair to steady myself which bruised my right hand pretty well. It was swollen for about half a week. Right now it's getting much better. I think a couple more days will probably allow it to fully recover.

Well that's the super short synopsis of the last few weeks.