Two Weeks at Hueco
It’s that time of year again to climb with our Pittsburgh buds at Hueco! Similar to last year, we coordinated our trip over Thanksgiving…a blissful 2 full weeks with excellent temps, minimal crowds and plenty of strong psyche and sends. Here is a re-cap in photos:
Sunset on our first day, North Mountain
Silas the plane
Paul still trying to perfect the handstand
…until one of the kids knock him down, wanting to play
Seb and Oren being goofy
Me sending a short yet powerful little v8 called Mystery Knobber early in the trip
Bucket bath!
Chillin’ in a Starbucks parking lot on a rest day
Ticking off a 4-star classic I’ve walked by a hundred times in the East Spur Maze and never touched, Slim Pickins, v5
Seb’s perch for a good read
Thumbs up for a Jingus Bells, v5 repeat
Our hero of the trip: Jen! Here she is sending Better Eat Your Wheaties, v8 after only a couple days of work. Awesome!!!!!!
On the same day immediately following Jen’s send of Wheaties Paul ups his game too and completes The Focus, v10
…and then another v10 for good measure, Dead Serious
The children too are having fun
Silas makes music out of a couple of sticks
Seb reads and Oren plays out yet another adventure with his yucca-stalk sword
An East Mountain tour and everyone sends! Starting with Jen’s flash of Ides of March, v6
…followed by my send of one of the more burly v4’s at Hueco, Tri Hard
…continued with Brian’s fast work of Julio and Me, v9
…and finished off with Paul’s tick of Sunshine, v11!
The grownups’ enthusiasm is apparently contagious
The four little rascals
LOVE these kind of days when everyone sends!
And now we can celebrate by indulging in our Thanksgiving feast
This year’s wholesomely homemade Thanksgiving menu: mushroom lentil mash with cranberry chutney, raw kale salad with root vegetables and maple-candied pecans, potatoes with arugula pesto, brussels sprouts with bacon, applesauce, pickled okra, a loaf of whole wheat seeded Barrio Bread from Don the Baker in Tucson, and a store-bought pumpkin pie. Ok make that 2 store-bought pumpkin pies. 😉
Now time for a West Mountain Tour. The infamous starry-eyed man pictograph
Cleanin’ up the classics: another 4-star v5 that I’d never done, Star Power
…and conveniently Paul also sends his adjacent line on the Star Power Roof, Unfinished Symphony, v10
A neat bird’s nest on the 100 Proof Roof
Jen sends her long-standing project from last season, Mexican Chicken, v6
And Brian adds Double Vision, v7 to his tick list
Silas and Oren on a “diving board” over a bathtub-sized Hueco
And for every climb and grin and send shown above there were two, three, four times more! We all had such a great trip. Paul, Silas, Ivan and I were definitely saddened to see our dear Pittsburgh friends drive east at the end of it all.
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