Finally finished climbing racks!

Summer Plans

Here's a basic itinerary for for this summer, Michael wrote this while bored on his late night wall shift (with corrections from me.. he left out yellowstone!)

May
18 - Monika's Graduation
19 - Andrew's Graduation
20 - Pack
21 - Drive to Flagstaff, AZ
22-23 - Hang out with Meg/ sport climb
24 - Drive to Las Vegas, NV
25-29 - Climb Red Rocks Conservation Area, NV
30 - Drive to Bishop, CA

June
31-12 - Climb around Bishop, CA and High Sierras
13 - Drive to Yosemite Nat.  Park, CA
14-21 - Climb in Yosemite NP
22 - Drive to San Francisco
23 - Tour around SF bay area and to San Jose
24 - Drive to HWY 101 to the Red Woods
25 - Drive to Bend, Oregon
26-30 - Climb at Smith Rocks, OR

July
1 - Drive to Siletz, OR
2-5 - Stay in Siletz, OR and visit Michael's family
6 - Drive to Leavenworth, WA
7-14 - Climb around Leavenworth
15 - Drive to Vancouver, Canada
16-20 - Climb Squamish
21 - Drive to Yellowstone N.P.
22 - Tour Yellowstone N.P.
23 - Tour Yellowstone N.P./Drive to the Grand Tetons
24-27 - Climb in the Tetons
28 - Drive to Devil's Tower, WY
29-30 - Climb Devil's Tower, WY
31-1 - Drive back to Lubbock

August
- Monika back to Northern Cascades for geology field work

- We have only two and half weeks of school left till summer!!!

First blog!

Yah! first blog before the start of the summer! Soooo first time on the blog, looks like I'll be doing all the blogging, Mike doesn't seem as excited as I am about this.

   Our reasoning behind creating this blog is this: we wanted to do a summer long climbing trip across to the west to all the places we've ever wanted to go to, and creating this blog is to allow people to keep in touch with us while were on the road and also maybe to inspire other people to get out there and do their own dream trips also.

 As of now, the plan is to leave Texas sometime around May 21st, climb through Arizona, part of Nevada, all over California, through Oregon and Washington, Vancouver, and if time allows head back to Texas through Wyoming and Colorado, creating one big loop. We'll visit friends and family along the way and hopefully make some new friends! Sadly we'll miss climbing in Utah, Idaho, and Montana.

The funniest part about the trip is we'll be living out of Mike's 2000 Toyota Camry.

We'll try and post pictures and info about the all the trip planning phases that go into preparing for a trip this long.