Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Climbing Season Is Upon Us!!!

With the weather starting to get awesome here, it marks the beginning of the fall climbing season. That, and since the Brewers are out of the playoffs, what else is there to do!?!? :) We met up with some friends at Phoenix's Oktoberfest for some good food and great beer. Rohan had an absolute blast running around with everyone and dancing to polkas and the German Horn (alpenhorn). Our friend, Angelika is a first generation from Germany so she was working the festival. Sean, Shannon, Audrey, Ryan and Mackenzie all joined us as well. Rohan even got a drinking bracelet...:) Sunday we got a babysitter for the morning, while Mara was at work, and I met up with some friends to go climbing up near Pine, AZ. The area, Isolation Canyon, is fairly new, and mostly set by one guy who's friends with AZR. He did an amazing job with the routes and there are even several multi-pitch climbs over 200'! We also found some cool places to rappel down from the top and have some awesome plans for the next time go there. There were hundreds of routes so there wasn't much crowding. The ledge is pretty narrow at times, and your looking down a 200' drop...pretty fun...:) All in all and awesome day (11hrs!) of climbing. Hope everyone is getting a chance to enjoy the outdoors as well!

1 comment:

Calds and Nico said...

Rho needs his own yoga mat now;)