Arrival

We arrived yesterday after a long 15 or so hours of driving over night.
Luckily, Weston's mom hooked us up with a place in the middle of the Hill in Boulder. We checked in and went to check out the place...it's a little old.
Most everything is ok, except the basement which looks like it would be the scene of a brutal murder.
We were exceptionally tired after staying up all night, but we needed to go check out at least some climbing. We drove up to Flagstaff Mtn. which is only a few minutes out of town and looked at few boulders, most of which were not too inspiring. We then drove over to the Flatirons which are also right outside of town to check out the bouldering. The hike was really not that bad, but being tired and having a headache and being at a much higher elevation than San Diego, it made me at least feel pretty shitty.
We climbed on several problems including a couple easy slabs and some v8 roof that seemed fairly hard but probably required some trickery. We hiked down as it started to get dark and the view was pretty nice of the campus and the rest of the city.A trip to the grocery store saw us partially stocked with essentials like bread, tuna, grapes, and water. We were mildly surprised by a large thunder/rain storm around 10 but it was actually kind of nice. We then drove over to the movie theater in the 29th street mall to see Public Enemies. It was good, but felt very long due to our state of exhaustion. We got back to our place around 1:30 or so and crashed.

We woke up today around 11:30 and grabbed some breakfast and drove out to RMNP.
RMNP really is spectacular and is an amazing setting for bouldering. We hiked up to Emerald Lake which is only about 1.7 miles and really wasn't that bad of a hike.
We checked out the boulders right near Emerald Lake including the Kind, Whispers of Wisdom, and Large. I was very impressed and more than a little dissapointed that we decided against bringing up climbing gear. We are heading back tomorrow to actually climb, and hopefully it will be as good as it looks. We ended our time by hiking up to Emerald Lake, which was fairly spectacular.
After Rocky, we drove back into town, grabbed some snacks, and headed back up to Flagstaff to do some climbing. It was underwhelming, especially after having looked at the amazing climbs in Rocky, and we only climbed for a little bit. We drove back to town, grabbed some groceries and walked over to the Pearl Street Mall. We saw a badass street performer juggle fire while walking on a ball, and got some food at a Chicago style restaurant.