Big plans for the weekend - we were all going to skip a day of work for a three day road trip to Smith Rock. By the time Friday came around though the forecast for central Oregon wasn’t looking good, and we couldn’t face that much driving with such a slim chance of decent weather. But nobody wanted to go back to work just because a little rain storm was covering the five western states, so we made a climbing road trip of sorts anyway: Friday we hopped the ferry and went to Bremerton to check out a different Vertical World gym and Saturday we popped over to the Feathers to catch a few hours on the crags between rain squalls.
The gym was pretty cool, as far as gyms go – it’s a purpose built facility so it’s taller and outfitted with a higher density and greater variety of routes than the Seattle and Redmond gyms. We would recommend it any time you find yourself on the wrong side of Puget Sound on a rainy day.
We didn’t have too much time at Vantage, but we did accomplish one major group goal – we made Karen do her first outdoor sport lead climb. Now that we have a new rope gun, the rest of us can slack off and let her put up all the hard routes!
Check out the rest of the photos on my Picasa album
here.
And yes, this blog will get around to skiing eventually – all we need is snow!
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