After my boot issue I thought I'd write to the wigwam people as their socks helped me get out without sore feet. On their site they put up my email and pictures, just scroll down to June.

Last week I went over to Wyoming via City Of Rocks, Idaho, to climb the Grand via the Upper Exum (5.4 II). While the weather and other things made us not climb the Grand, we had a good time at City Of Rocks and hiking and scrambling in the Tetons. We also took a trip up to Yellowstone to check out the springs.

City of Rocks

City of Rocks, Idaho.

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I've been sending out google maps to Ingrid and Matt for our rides to show where I thought we should go. It has a nice mileage calculator to give us an idea of how much we're in for. This is today's ride(ish).
View Larger Map

While at Smith, Ingrid and I played around with my Yashica and took some night shots. I had forgotten my cable release so that limited our options, but some of them came out cool anyways.

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Last weekend we went over to Smith Rock and climbed on Spiderman. I freaked out at the crux, again, when my feet blew and I was hanging by my hands above my gear. So that sucked. After Ingrid and I got to the top, I rapped down to take pictures of Matt and Jeremy pulling the roof. That was badass and made up for the cruxy screaming and swearing.

Photos

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Ding and I went to get peaches at Sauvie's Island this weekend. There were a lot still on the trees but they weren't as tasty as I remembered. They all went mushy and moldy in a few days so Ding was a little sad.

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On Saturday Matt, Ron, Angel and I went up into the gorge for a little hike up Mt. Hamilton. It was a pretty chill hike with some nice views.

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On Tuesday Ron and I went up to Beacon Rock to get in some practice. I've been wanting to do some simulclimbing to get ready for the Grand Teton in August. We got in a few sections of simulclimbing using an ascender to protect the leader, I think it worked out pretty well. The climbing was bomber and I felt pretty good on lead above the gear. We'll be going up again in a week or two to get more practice.

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Last weekend I went up to Seattle to hang out with Sara for a few days. We came across a kitchy store and inside they had Ugly Dolls. They are quite ugly, but I bought a bat for Ingrid. We decided to take Ding (the bat's name) around Seattle and document his adventures for Ingrid.

We took Ding to the aquarium, to an Italian pizza place, to beer, to a park, to breakfast and then to mojitos. Below are his adventures.

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For the 4th we went down to the beach to hang out and get in a bit of mountain biking. Sara came down on Wednesday to check out the fireworks with us. We had a kickass bbq, even if there were vegetables involved.

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