After stopping at the border gas station we headed off to the hot springs, which are placed in a somewhat tight and very wooded valley with a narrow reservoir running through it, for some reason it felt like Chattanooga, but with conifers. We met a couple of friends there and sipped beer out of plastic cups and watched fish jumping out of the water. We had to get back to Logan because our good friends Tom and Erika Lyon were coming up that same night from St. George to escape the heat. We made it to Logan about twenty minutes before Tom and Erika. When the Lyons made it to our house we stayed up for a beer and chatted a bit. We got up late in the morning to eat breakfast and to head off towards City of Rock's in Idaho about two hours west of Logan. We arrived around noon in the City and started climbing, in the sun with our shirts off, it felt good but I got fried. After the first climb we started climbing in the shade and I ran into an acquaintance of Tom and mine that lives in SLC, Shingo. Shingo was climbing with this big ol' Aussie named Rob. Since the super popular route Bloody Fingers had a constant line on it we goofed off on some other routes and chatted with Rob and Shingo. We ended the day by going to Elephant rock and I did Colombian Crack which felt much harder than the 5.7 grade especially since I didn't have a lot of gear that fit that thing which meant I was running it out about 15 or more feet when I wasn't bumping a #2 for 20 feet. Once we got off of elephant we headed into Almo, the local cow town to find some dinner. Almo is small, there are now two places to eat, the first one closes at the same time the sun sets, 9, and the second stays open till 10, since we were staying out so late we had to head to tiny eating establishment #2, which was a treat. The restaurant is somewhat new and makes good pizza and sandwiches and also sells beer, but since I was driving I had a Starbucks frapacino thing and a Henry Weinhard's root beer. We left just before 10 and made it home to Logan around 12:30 and we all passed out. In the morning we drank some coffee and ate some cereal before the Lyons said goodbye. I spent the rest of the day doing laundry, checking email and helping April find some dress casual shirts at Ross.I went out the Field the next day packed for four days of work, but came back this morning because it was miserable blizzard conditions up at our camp site, I don't know when I will be going back, but not before Saturday because Friday is our one year anniversary.
Here is a crappy picture of the city of rocks taken quite some time ago during a storm, most of the bigger chunks of rock you see are at least 100 feet tall, it is an international climbers destination for a reason.
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Love your blogs Scott, you almost make me feel I'm still in Logan. Love all the details. What field work are you doing?
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