December 2nd, 2011
Another outing over the weekend – this time a little bouldering on The Matterhorn.
The Matterhorn Boulder
Dried boogers, dried drool and a granola bar
Baby under the boulder
and on the pads – of course his favorite play area
Paul giving Jewel Thief, v10 a try
Setting up for the crux
Going big
Going down
And going home. After about a dozen falls from the top, it’s cold and getting dark. Pauls wants to try again this weekend but we might get shut down due to SNOW!!!! 😀
posted by arr
September 5th, 2011
A Mt. Lemmon hike sidetracked with a little baby bouldering. I promise this is not staged:
posted by arr
March 17th, 2009
After not climbing outside for quite awhile we formulated a plan. It all started with Plan A and then a few revisions followed:
Plan A – Joshua Tree
Plan B – Priest Draw (once we found out our El Paso friends were going to be spending a week there)
Plan C – Hueco (once we found out our El Paso friends were not going to Flag)
Plan D – Something other than Hueco (reservations for Hueco were not available), Priest Draw?
Plan E – Priest Draw again
Plan F – Not Priest Draw (weather looked bad), Cochise Stronghold (for bouldering!)
Plan G – Hairpin Boulders (5 mins from home)
Okay, so Plan G worked out for last Friday but what about Saturday/Sunday?
Plan H………….Z – Variations of the previous plans over and over while talking with various friends and looking at the weather.
Plan Z – The Anvil Boulders outside Sedona! Of course. We’ve never been there before so why not?
It turned out to be a great decision. A big thanks goes out to our friend Gina for helping in the decision making process. I think she was involved from Plan A.
A cool variation on the Hairpin Roof, Narco’s v10
Working Block Obama v10
April climbing a cool slab at the Anvil Boulders, Sedona
The beautiful setting from the top of the slab
Gina – focusing on the small holds and slippery feet while climbing the slab
Paul – Being reminded of Rocklands while climbing a cool orange Sedona boulder
April – Flashing a V2 crack
April – Rocking over the top of the V2 crack
Gina – Grabbing the lip and on her way to a send of the V2 crack
Paul – Working the long reach on Alien Baby, v9/10
posted by pjv
April 1st, 2008
A good gift is something that you would like to receive yourself. When I asked April what she really wanted for her birthday she said, “I want to go bouldering!” I quickly replied, “Simple, you got it (as I thought to myself…this is going to be a nice treat for myself too).
Yesterday, April and I left work early, threw the crashpads in the car and drove 5 minutes down the road to a boulder we’ve never even touched (how dare us, I know). We had a nice evening session trying out the classic “Hairpin Roof,” v6 and other variations on the boulder. As an added birthday treat April managed to quickly send the classic v6 version. Check it out…
April contemplating the moves on Hairpin Roof
April pulling the moves on Hairpin Roof
April celebrating like a cactus on top of Hairpin Roof
A cactus at home that bloomed for April’s birthday
June 7th, 2005
On Sunday we decided to stay local and hit up Mt. Lemmon. Courtney, Marcus, April and I headed up to Windy Point and spent the day mixing it up. We managed to do some trad, sport and bouldering all in the same day! Overall it was just a super fun day and we’ve decided to mix it up a lot more on future climbing trips. Perhaps we’ll set our sights on something like “ Levitation 29.” ha ha. Stay tuned.
posted by pjv
