The Weekend

Eric, Bryan, and I spent the night down in Sedona on Friday. We slept in a Bashas parking lot because we couldn't find a place to camp. On Saturday morning we went to the house of a Vedic monk who fed us breakfast. It was a really cool experience seeing the way that he lives his life, his religion, and his beliefs. We then headed over to the Anvil Boulders. I had previously tried to go to the Anvil Boulders, but wasted my time hiking around trying to get to them. The directions from Vertical Relief are complete shit. The real directions take about a quarter of the time. I saw Terry out at the blocks. He showed me around and I climbed on a bunch of really good warm-ups. I tried this crazy problem that involves a hard stem called Stem and Seeds. After that we headed over to Alien Baby. I was able to do it in a few tries. Then Eric did this highball around the corner. We finished the day out on Free Willy, also known as Lip Service. It was almost a waste to try this climb because the sun was on the start holds and the slopey lip. It's definitely a cool feature though. We camped at Groom Creek Saturday night, and climbed there Sunday morning. We didn't climb as much as the previous day, but we just ran around in the boulders climbing whatever looked good. We finished the trip off with a visit to Golden Corral before the drive back.