The City

 

We piled into Tanner's truck Friday evening and headed north. The City of Rocks, ID is home to some amazing granite climbing. After a late arrival, we found all the camping sites full... after driving around for a little while we finally asked a group of motorhomers if we could crash in the vacant spots. They where a little drunk and way nice so they let us stay.

Morning rolled around and we all eventually woke up and got ready. Austin showed up and we got everything together and headed out to get some climbing done. The first climb of the day was on a granite spire called "Lost Arrow". We were planning to do a 5.7 but ended up starting in the wrong place and going up a 5.8X. The X means that the route is hard to protect and can result in really long falls... it was actually a lot of fun and really manageable. Even though it was a pretty mellow 5.8 there where moments where it felt pretty spicy. 

We all made it up and had fun hanging out up top. Tanner is leaving on his mission soon so we are trying to spend as much time with him as possible. We will miss that dirtbag when he goes....