Howdy ho! Ah yes. The cozy winter continues to roll on here
in Montana. Our pants are getting tighter, and our skin is getting whiter.
Since my last post, David returned
from Sweden.
Our original plan had been to drive to Salt Lake City, say hello to the good
folks at the Outdoor Retailer Show, and continue on to Bishop,
California for a 10-day bouldering trip.
However, when David came back to the U.S., he brought with
him a good, ol'-fashioned case of influenza! Whoops! And, you'll never believe
it--but I came down with it, too! Crazy!
So anyway, the 12 days we would have spent travelling were instead used
for sweating, shivering, aching, coughing and nose blowing. So it goes!
Yeah--it was definitely a bummer to miss out on a mid-winter
sun week. Both of us would have enjoyed the vitamin D and climbing inspiration.
Yet, in lieu of this trip, many other good things have happened:
- David got a job! And one he really likes!
- We've continued to deepen our interest in jiu jitsu... and
- We cornered a local hero into taking us out to Whiskey Gulch--a bouldering area about 90 miles west(ish) from Bozeman.
Though I grew up in the fair "City" of Bozeman,
and was actually a fringe partaker of the early Whiskey Gulch days, nowadays
we definitely need an interpretive guide to get to Whiskey and find
our way around the place. In the 14 years since I spent time there, a lot of
development has taken place... and a lot of brain cells have died
floated away. (Not to mention that, according to David, my skin is now saggy.)
If you ask me, a partly cloudy day in Montana in February is
a little too cold for effective climbing. But if you ask David, the conditions
were perfect! So we put on our long underwear and super large down jackets, and
took some photos.
Enjoy!
