New Limestone

New RoofLimestone we encountered during our detour.

I headed out to Willow Canyon again with Pat, Sam, and Cody. About 10 miles from our exit in Winslow there was a pileup of semi-trucks on east bound I-40. Apparently there were numerous deaths caused by the wreck. The line of cars and semis was over 4 miles long, and with helicopters in the distance heading towards the scene, we chose to bail and find an alternate route to our destination.

We took some random forest roads to link up with the forest roads near the Mogollon Rim. The forest in Northern Arizona is badass because there are many roads that link up together allowing for many different routes to a single destination. Most forest roads are well maintained, but sometimes out of nowhere they will turn into heinous 4WD roads. Not only that but there is an amazing amount of rock here, particularly limestone. If you drive down many forests roads long enough you are likely to encounter more rock. After 70 miles on dirt roads and an extra hour of driving we finally made it back to the Blimp Roof.

The landing for the Blimp roof has been built up enough to do some of the boulder problems. Pat and I climbed on a sick new roof near the end of the day, but we were too tired from the day's work to put up any rock climbs. The sequence on the right exit of the Blimp Roof is starting to come together. It is one of the hardest climbs that I've ever tried, likely harder than Big Worm at Mt. Evans.