Wednesday 5 March 2014

It's not about the easy way up.


Red Rock Canyon west of Las Vegas is one of the top rock climbing destinations in North America.  Greg has been waiting 30 years to come here.  The rock is spectacular, the climbing is amazing, the sun and temperatures are perfect.  A few too many people, but we can’t have it all.   Leland is really loving climbing.  Greg set up a top rope on this climb called Side Effects which has a difficulty of 5.10b.  Hard.  



It also has an overhang which makes for some swings when they fall off, but prevents as many scrapes.

  Anna likes it too but is more cautious.   

Greg did get up on the rock too with Leland learning to belay with me as backup.  

Rusty loves hiking to the crags and hanging out.  Tilly comes too but moans and then tries to curl up in the shade.   

2 comments:

  1. Awesome Carmen... we were just at the climbing wall last week,which is a bit of a bore compared to outdoor stuff but this is inspiring me to want to get out there this summer!

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  2. To top rope something so difficult - what a great place! The arm hang photo is great!

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