5/23/2012

      Were both convinced Flagstaff has bad voodoo.  Too many unfortunate things have happened in the past two days, that we thought it was best to leave the area. Besides Meg and Justin though, Thanks for letting us stay for the past two days, it was great, you two have a blast in Turkey!

      Early in the morning, we climbed at the Pit (a limestone sport crag right outside of Flagstaff), Michael made me lead Mr. Slate (5.10b) which was an awesome climb, but also had bad voodoo. Two people had died on that same route for well…rookie reasons. 

(Mr. Slate, 5.10b)

Panicked to clip I ended up biting my hand trying to pull rope up… rookie mistake. Michael ticked a short 5.12a yesterday, after 3 and 4 routes a piece we were wiped. Easy to say were both out of climbing and hiking shape.

                                    

We learned yesterday that all the ambulances, fire trucks, and Forest service personnel we saw at Pine Creek Vista (5/22) in the Grand Canyon, turned out to be a death. A man either jumped or accidently went over the side of the canyon and fell 180m to his death. CRAZY

    We hung out in downtown Flagstaff for the afternoon said farewell to Meg and left for Zion national Park. We crossed over the Colorado River (AWESOME) 

Michael at the Colorado River

and drove into Zion pretty late, with the campgrounds full, we pulled into a pullout and sleep outside. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen stars like last night.