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Well, last nights bouldering trip got me all stoked to get up there, so we all (Jason, Jordan, Lars, and me) went up again around 6:45 this morning. This time we went up the road a little further, but not too much. Another great roadside bouldering area. It was deserted this morning, but It's really popular during the day, I would imagine. One of the greatest boulders on earth is up there. You start off on a jug like thing and have to dyno to this huge, yet not as good as you think it is, hold. After that, you think it's probabley over, but it's not. What we think is the crux consists of some slopy holds up the the top. It is insane. Photos were taken, they will be posted shortly. The rock itself is the coarsest granite I have ever delt with. It is rather painful after a while. My hands are preety raw as I type this. While bouldering is fun and all, I want badly to get up on a nice hand crack. I plan on leading bushwack crack preety soon.

Finally got back out, but only did some bouldering. Suprisingly, I was fine with this. The group that went consisted of me Jason, Jordan, and Lars. We went up Little Cottonwood to a nice little area just barely up the road. There were some nice boulders up there and it wasn't too crowded. I would like to go into more detail about the area but I don't have the area bouldering guide. Jordan is buying it preety soon though, so I can be more detailed later. It was preety friggn awesome though. Got stoked about bouldering, which I didn't think would happen. I've always been one for the long moderates, but I could get into this. I can feel myself getting stronger too.

Well, Jason, Spence and I didn't have the time nor motivation (sometimes I wonder about spence and his climbing..) to go climbing, but we did some fun slacklineing. Usually I dont post when we hang out and slack, but this was a preety fun time. We just did a little walking and then when in the groove we started to do some trickery. We did some backwards walking, and spinning around on the line. I never did more than walking backwards, but I wasn't too into it. I was very into watching them though. Then they started on the ultimate trick.. stripping on the line. 3 articles of clothing: shirt, pants, and undies. Everything must be done up completly and you take off the first 2 articles. Yeah, they left their shorts on. Jason was the only one able to do it completely.

Wow, Steph is such a killjoy. I go and get permission to go to the slips with Spence and Steph goes and ruins everything. why did she have to get off work just as we were going to leave. Wort part of it all, I'm stuck at home now because Spence didn't pick me up yet. And now he'll be on the phone for a good half hour with steph.. and by that time, she'll be back from work, and I'll be doomed. Sigh. And today was my first day of work, which went ok, except the mountains looming out the window. Fresh granite of the big willow and Lone Peak Cirques staring me in the face. Taunting my becuase I'm stuck in a gym. PLASTIC PULLER! So I thought I'd get back at them and go for a hike. But spence wanted to go climbing. Appearantly no more though. "Dinner sounds good". I hear one side of the conversation. Just as well though. I probabley wasn't going to climb much anyways. I just wanted to be in the mountains.