Team Harro: City of Rocks Rock Trip May 2006

Well for our post spring pre summer trip we went to the City of Rocks Idaho for some classic granite rock climbing. The fist day of climbing was amazing. We started climbing around 8:30am it was warm in the morning and then got colder and colder as the day went on. We met up with some friends from PDX John, Lani, and Eric and did some routes together. By the last climb Elisif and I were both pretty cold so we decided to call it a day at around 7:00pm we ended up getting 6-7 classic routes done. We drove to an area where we decided it would be ok to poach a camping site easily enough (John’s secret place) if we got up and out climbing somewhat early. We went to sleep with out an issue.
We all woke up around 7:00am to hear rain showers on out tents and by the time 8:00am came around the rain turned to snow so we decided to get a little more sleep and try and figure out what to do. We woke back up to a voice asking up to pay $10 dollars for out campsite, nothing way going right. We got up and go mobilized and only to see the snow start accumulation. We all jumped into our cars and headed through the City of Rocks over to Burly (45 min away) to get some breakfast at the local dinner. After some thinking Elisif and I decided to go to Boise for a few days to help out my grandma and eat some great food and head back to the City of Rocks when the weather got better.
Elisif and I were excited to come back to the City of Rocks, with warm weather and no snow we were able to get some amazing routes in. We were very lucky to get a total of five days of climbing in!! 5 day without a shower = a gross sweaty feeling…. Enjoy the photos!