Climbing, Independance Day and More Rain

We missed a day here due mainly to a lack of news. Yesterday we went and investigated Boulder Canyon in hopes of climbing out of the reach of mountain storms, but though we found the climbs we were looking for, most of them were out of reach or unclimbable due to a swollen river. Still, we found a manufactured traverse/overhang called the Barrio that we dabbled around on. There were enough holds to contrive a couple lines straight out the overhang and Tim and I both did a couple things in the 8/9 range.

After we came home we grabbed some food and headed over to the CU Boulder campus to watch fireworks, hells ya, nothing like blowing things up to celebrate being an American.

Today we tried to check out another area we were psyched on at Mt. Evans in Idaho Springs. We got there and waited half an hour or so for our friends to show up and show us around and while we were waiting it started pouring again. After a little more waiting we did the only logical thing and hiked for half an hour in a down pour to try and find the boulders. Luckily we ran into another group of climbers who pointed us in the right direction, but now that everything was soaked, ourselves included, and the storm didn't seem interested in stopping we bailed out and headed to The Spot in boulder to get a little work out in.

Tomorrow the forecast looks slightly more hopeful, so we are going to try and get to bed before 2:30 for once and get up bright and early and get some climbing in at RMNP before afternoon showers arrive.