Haven't been in this cult for a while so I thought I'd share some spring break climbing we did down in Moab/Indian Creek. We headed straight to the creek and did some cragging for a few days climbing all the classic cracks. We also climbed Easter Island, a tower right above our campground, and South Six Shooter while in the creek.
Here's my buddy Aki onsighting Blue Gramma, 5.11.
And here's a badass offwidth climber we met while in the parking lot of Supercrack buttress. His name was Kay (nobody knew how to spell his name, even himself). He's a professor who spends his free time traveling around and climbing offwidths because his shoulder was hurt from climbing crack or face climbs. The protection on this climb was so bad; he placed a # 5 or 6 and it was barely cammed. Badass.
Next we headed to Moab to tackle some towers. First up was ancient art. The rock was so terribly shitty but it's such a classic tower we had to do it.
Me on the first pitch:
The belays were such a shit show since the party in front of us was quite incompetent when it came to managing their group, etc. Ended up at a belay for 2+ hours but it all worked out in the end, barely (the sun went down as we were preparing our first rap). Needless to say the belays got pretty fucking weird. We got quite close to some complete strangers pretty fast.
My friend Seth taking climbing very seriously
A random guy we met at a belay, and Seth.
Me leading the second to last pitch
Aki on the knife edge on the last pitch
Aki on top. Ended up calling his grandma and talking with her for about 5 minutes while up there. Keep in mind hes 500+ feet off the deck on a pizza sized topout.
I ended up breaking off a brick sized foot hold on one of the last real moves of the last pitch. Swung about 10 feet out to the other side of the pillar. Pretty shaken up after that one; I could barely stand up on the summit.
We also climbed Castleton, one of the most iconic desert towers. Really fun climbing, but also very scary. The rock was very slick due to all the calcite on it.
Me on the third pitch of the classic Kor-Ingals route. By far the scariest lead I've ever done, but also the proudest. Awkward, shitty protected offwidth to face climbing.
I loved this pitch!!!!!!!!!!!!
And the summit register
These are just a few of the things we climbed down there. Super fun trip all in all!
