Winter Not Coming Just Yet

Anyone else not ready for winter? I love skiing as much as anyone, but with such a mediocre fall and some nice days finally here, I still find myself wanting to be out on the rocks. W got to climb at the Black Cliffs outside of Boise, Idaho this weekend. It’s a nice local spot that stays really warm. We didn’t have a guidebook and it was fun just to walk up to a climb and see how it went. In our beta intensive climbing world that seems to be a rarity these days. Same thing happened to us in Eldo about a week ago when we climbed Yellow Spur. We originally planned on doing another line, but they were all taken and Yellow Spur was open. Normally I would probably go on Mountain Project and get the super double secret probation beta, but this time around I just had the brief guidebook description. And we had a blast. Seems like the last couple times out I’ve been learning to take the experience for what it is, and that has been super enjoyable.