We drove Kevin back to Salt Lake with the hope to go to Colorado and Wyoming with him. Turns out his head didn't clear up that quick so we did a couple days of climbing in the Little and Big Cottonwood Canyons. It was fun staying with Kevin and Christine. We hung out for about 5 days then headed back northwest to City Of Rocks, Idaho.
We Climbed a route on the south side of the Little Cottonwood called
Stiffler's Mom 5.11a the first day. It had been highly recommended and
was an ok climb that felt very soft for the grade and not worthy of the reputation. The
next day we went to the north side of the canyon and climbed After The Fall 5.9 and Green Adj. 5.9. Both were good routes but it was way too hot
and we were both sick by the time we finished up Green A. We bailed from
the heat for an Icee after logging just three pitches for the day.
The next day Kevin was feeling a little better and we went out to climb Pentapitch and Sasquatch 5.9. It was a fun climb and Sasquatch was nice. Kevin felt off for a while afterwords but by morning was exhausted and we realized he wouldn't be climbing or anything else for a while.
The last day we knew better than to go to Little Cottonwood so we went to Big Cottonwood assuming the rumors were true and it would be cool enough to climb... Well, they weren't true. It was almost 100 in the shade according to the car when we got off the climb. You can see the heat in Krys face just after the 3 min approach. We climbed Outside Corner 5.7. It was an ok route on crap rock but we had fun anyway and promptly headed back to Cristine's to cool off and decided to leave for cooler weather. We decided to head to City of Rocks Idaho... Great decision.
Outside Corner 5.7
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