Well it's been 10 days since we arrived at J-Tree. It's taken longer than we thought it would to shake off the jet lag, and we've only recently started to get the hang of the place. J-Tree is a must-see destination - no doubt about it. The lanscape is stunning, the climbing superb, the locals are friendly, and the wildlife highly entertaining.
What more could could you ask for? Well... nice warm weather, I suppose. The weather has been pretty damn cold most days, even snowing in the desert one night. Apparently, it's the same story across the US - winter is stubbornly holding on this year. According to the gossip around the campfires, it's something to do with El Nino. I'm not sure about that though, as those dudes didn't look like meteorologists to me.
Despite the cold winds most days, its been sunny with blue skies, and we've managed to climb for 10 days on the trot, without a rest day. We are both knackered now. Personally, I'm worse than that: after a double bout of championship off-width wrestling in one day, I've pulled a muscle in my ribs - a weird injury arising from an even weirder move, which I won't attempt to describe here. It's not too bad really, but maybe it's time to take a rest day... it's a bit frustrating as we were both just starting to step up a gear on the crags.
At any rate, Ruth was starting to get itchy feet, so we have decided to 'up anchor' and move venue. Quite a difficult call this one - where to go? Others have been talking of Utah, Indian Creek, and Moab. definately interesting venues, mostly desert sandstone, but all a bit further east than we had planned. We have to be back in Vegas in a couple of weeks.
So we have decided to fall back on the sub-plot for the early part of our trip - namely, get fit! We've decided to go and spend some time climbing steep limestone, and clipping bolts. We're going to Arizona... next stop Flagstaff.
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