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Good week in Utah! Indian Creek is an iconic rock climbing area near Canyonlands NP. There is the greatest concentration of splitter crack routes anywhere. Absolutely no cell or WiFi in the area so the main parking area and all the BLM campgrounds have message boards where people hang notes to find climbing partners, and let their friends know where they are. We camped at SuperBowl campground about 10 miles from supercrack parking lot. The skinny tower on right in the distance is south six shooter that we climbed in the fall. Crack climbing is hard! I did 2 out of my 5 day climbing trip last fall on splitters. The first day she had us on a 5.8. There was a section of 5.9 in the middle that I absolutely could not get past. I tried for about 20 min, taking breaks, hanging in the rope and finally gave up. You are trying to put your feet on the tiniest little nubbins for leverage and giving everything you have to gain a few inches. It’s exhausting. The next day we did another 5.8 and it took me about 30 min but I topped out. It was so satisfying since that’s the first route she took us to last fall and I only got about 6’ off the ground Several ways to ascend but a popular method is to “scum” your back against the wall for some of it. You notice the worn white line where my back is from people doing this Almost there my colors blend w the rock so you can barely see my white helmet at the top Some other random pics

Time to send up another recon plane!

hahah y'alll not Greek! I love big parties stuffing my face and gettin' tore up with family and friends! I do have one in two weeks that I'm not looking forward to so much, I think theyre born agains. Probably still make an ass out of myself lol

I can answer the magazine question for you. The answer is most likely. The staff is all over it.

My daughter is going to Iceland for a study abroad thing. It was like $650 RT from Newark to Reykjavick. I thought that was steal.

Don't forget the Bridal shower too. An event to "shower" the bride with expensive gifts before showering the couple with gifts at the actual f'ing wedding. Don't get me started on weddings. It's not about money or giving gifts that makes me crazy. It's the ego trip, the stress inducing circus with the expectations that the people who come should do a certain thing from a gift giving perspective. And if you don't...you're a scumbag. Fuck weddings. I have one coming up. It's on a Friday early evening, 2 hours from here. My wife and I need to take time off from work. Pull kids from school early to get them to the sitter, get a hotel room for etc. And if we told them we couldn't go it would be the crime if the f'ing century. I'm looking at it as a night out with my wife I guess. But I'd rather take her somewhere else.

wow they are leaving money on the table. Should have sold those cinderblocks for money. Shameful.

Looks amazing.

Exhausting just looking at the photos. Lots of nice varnish though.

$125?? I'd book tomorrow at that price. Thankfully her food is included in the program cost and thankfully again she got scholarship $$ for that.

you know there are only 2 types of skylights, right?

The older I get the more I hate them. I enjoy the celebratory component to it, but when it involved logistics, showers, gifts, etc it just sucks. I think next year I have three weddings. Virginia, Utah, Minnesota. I don't want to go to any.

Flights to Iceland are super cheap because they just want people there. Then you pay $45 for a burger. Out flights were stupid cheap when we went - something like $125 rt pp. What a place, though. I'd love to go back.

Whoa. Tear off and reshingle? Thats about what i paid for my old house which was a complete tear off with new sheathing since it was built with wood shakes. That was probably 7 years ago. Building materials as you know are $$, and then through in some asphalt shingles, which i am sure are $$$ since anything asphalt starts with fuel. i wonder where a metal roof would fall price wise. i could put a roof on your shed.

Off-season party on Ben's roof. I'm down.

Not to mention the shingles!

Wedding gifts are a scam. Imagine throwing a party at your house and when people show up, you demand $100 from them. Obviously not ok, but Somehow this is acceptable for weddings

Just bought two round trip tickets to Edinburgh for $1605. I thought that was pretty reasonable.

Wonderfully crazy! I won't miss it...I'd be interested in purchasing a chair though

Few more from one of the guys ... I tried to annotate (to the best of my memory) our route down from the top (climbed/toured up right, skied down left).

Tucks has always been something I wanted to do if the opportunity came along, but never pulled the trigger. After seeing the 50 Episode from Tucks, and this report, it quickly moved up my list. I graciously joined the boys @Justo8484 @GSSucks this year for the adventure and it didn't disappoint. Due to weather concerns on Saturday, Tucks was moved to Sunday, with a Stratton skin on Friday, Killington on Saturday, and then the big event on Sunday. It proved to be an awesome decision. We did a T2B skin lap at Stratton with great conditions as a gear test. Did a few beacon searches, crampon tests, etc. A skiff of fresh snow on top of corn meant you could let it run top to bottom. Awesome snow. Killington was skiing great on Saturday with temps in the mid 50s and 22ish trails. @mbike-ski happened to be camping in the area that weekend so it great to see him at Killington about to enjoy his first May ski day ever. Was pretty hard to sleep in anticipation of Tucks so we were all up pretty early, geared up, and hit the trail a little after 7:30am. Hiked for about 1.5 miles, switched to skins for another 1+ miles up to Hojos, put the skis on the pack and finished the hike up to the bowl, where we donned helmets, crampons and ice axes for the boot up Right Gulley. After a steep climb up, we were greeted by low winds, and great looking snow fields up to the summit. We threw back on the skis and skinned up the summit, climbing over 4000ft from the parking lot to the summit in 4h 45m ish. Celebratory pictures, beverages, a snack, and we plotted out descent down the snowfields with Hillman's in mind. The snowfields were very interesting snow. Super smooth, but I'd call it slippery spring snow. Fun route down through rocks, where we threw the skis back on the packs, and hiked to the top of Hillmans, stopping to have some charcuterski, and then gear up for the descent down Hillman's. I dropped in first to perfect spring conditions down through the choke. We all worked our way to the bottom, rock scrambled to the Sherbie, and then skied down to rope 7, where we put crampons on to descent the slippery Tuckerman's Ravine Trail 1.6 miles back to the car. The weather was perfect, the snow was great, and the cherry on top was getting up to the summit. No action shots from me, as I really didn't want to be pulling out my phone in some bad places. Others do, so they may end up here. Was a great experience and hope I can do it again some day. Overall, it was 10.5 miles of hiking, booting, skinning, and skiing, climbing ~5000ft in 8.5 hours start to finish. Rolled out of the visitor's center parking lot just after 5pm with 8+ hours of driving ahead of us.

Mine are on two different, so I'm really cheating. Two monitors for the work laptop and then the open laptop with the monitor is my personal computer. Gotta keep 'em separated.

damn i didn't think anyone else had 4. they're all on the same machine.

I may need to get a third monitor.

Weird being on a gondola with no snow in sight

Looks like they zoomed the Main Street cam, unfortunately.

Was just curious. We have a scanner around here somewhere that the wife's ex left behind but I doubt I could pick up the feed EDIT: I know you meant you could digitize and provide a feed link. Realized my comment was confusing

That sign would have looked good on the wall of a Hotel House