Vedawoo!

The first part of the trip started in Vedawoo, Wyoming. Vedawoo has been my playground for four years and it is now the starting point for a long road trip.

The first few days of the trip provided amazing climbing, but the best part of our stay in the Voo was getting to see our friends who came up to send us off. So far, we have met some incredible people such as fellow dirtbags and Rob Kelman, the author of the Vedawoo guidebook.

The living system in the car is cramped, but we are dialed. Moving in and moving out is pretty easy. The real challenges are going to be the small difficulties we encounter every day, such as bad weather, boring food, poor sleep, and injuries. We are confident and excited.

Day 1. The spread.

One of the challenges we have encountered thus far: we learned that multi-vitamins have to be taken with food, or else you will throw up. It took us two days of experimenting to pinpoint the exact problem!

George and Adam after our first day of climbing. George and I decided not to take any beers with us, so that we would start off the trip on the right foot/sober foot. We were lucky Adam came up with a cooler of beer. Note to self: beer at the end of a day of cragging tastes good.

Adam and George with the Nautilus in the background.

Day 2. Our buddy Corban came up to hang with us on our second day of climbing.

Fun colors around the Nautilus.

Day 3. Our buddy Tyson came up to climb with us on a day that was supposed to be a travel day, but we could not resist hanging with more friends. It is difficult to leave the places you love. Above: Tyson Wormis making Strawberry Jam look like it belongs on crumpets instead of your ankles.

We got rained out after one climb, but we had a great cave at out campsite to hangout in and make an early dinner.

After Tyson left, we shared our campsite with these strangers from Golden. Kate and Ryan trying to knock each other over.