so much to say....

Fingers

perfect hands

85 amazing feet

Now, as the days begin to pass, and zion seems further and further away, I feel like the entire experience was just a dream. so, let me tell you, before this dream fades, and some other trip takes its place.

zion: mecca or holy ground. and it is. The beauty of the place is overwhelming. The red sandstone cliffs, the petrified sand dunes. having it all be ancient and molded millions of years ago. like our very own castles, but better.

and then the climbing...

Zion climbing is epic. special. it's zion after all. and our climbing took a huge leap forward. both in crack and big wall. now, for any of you that have climbed routes such as, angels landing, or moonlight buttress, (do any of you read this lowly blog?) you may not understand the chasm we jumped. But, we've made a leap.

85 ft, of hands, perfect hands, and 10 ft of fingers. Was one such accomplishment. Kaleb led (as usual) and manged to place gear, and climb with precision. running the bottom pieces out 15ft (!) Then as the fingers approached jammed his arm around a buttress and placed gear in that tiny crack.

I followed. it was perfection. those hands. and then, as my fingers are much smaller than kalebs I lay-backed the finger section. once on top and looking out over the valley, it was beautiful. and moving up that rock with only myself and my grunts (yes grunts, very ladylike) was....what, unexplainable.