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Destination #5: Triassic, Utah

And here we have Triassic, just down the road from Joe’s. This place is the definition of “kid in a candy store.” There are so many boulders here we couldn’t decide where to start! Too bad we only had a day.



Sooooo many boulders. Sooooo many lines. Check this one out – of the hundreds of lines documented in our guide, this was one stellar line of many that was not!



Warming up the Daisy Boulder in the Land of a Thousand Boulders



Silas playing imaginary checkers with his imaginary pet, Water Dog…(who followed us home from the Water Dog Wall boulders at Hueco Tanks about a year ago and has been our constant companion ever since)



The Gravity Boulder, which hosts…



The Good, v4,



The Bad, v5



…and The Ugly, v6. And yes, that is a pile of mud that this enormous boulder is balanced on. I tapped the mud with my finger for some sort of conviction that this was safe. The mud felt like rock.









The boys, wild as ever and in desperate need of a rest day. Do everyone else’s kids spend more energy the more tired they get, or is it just our’s? As Paul likes to say “it seems so against a human being’s primal instinct for survival!”



The kids aren’t the only ones that need a rest. Finishing the day off with some Bacardi Silver, v4

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