I'll (Tony) be in the US approximately two weeks longer than Anni. During the time that Anni is there we'll like to mix trekking and climbing. But for the other two weeks I'd like to climb as much as possible. During these times it would be great to meet and climb with other people. I'll have a car and I'll be fairly flexible about where and what I climb. It would be great to climb with locals or other visitors who are in the area. Ideally, I'd like to climb with the same person for a couple of days, but just one day would also be good.
My plan goes like this. I arrive in Salt Lake City on the evening of the 26th of Sep. Probably, I'll drive to Moab straight away. During the weekend I'll be attending the Splitter Camp (Crack climbing workshop). But for the Thursday and Friday I'd like to climb.
After that I'll meet Anni in Vegas on the 8th. In the meantime I'm free to climb in Moab or Red Rocks. Anni will leave me on the 22nd and I'll have from then to the 27th to climb.
Now the time to sell myself. I'm not a hard climber, on a trip like this it would be more important to get a lot of climbing done than climb particularly hard. That being said, when you fly from Europe it would be great to be able to have a go at some of the classic routes. Things that appeal to me are Castleton Tower, Ancient Art, the splitter cracks of Indian Creek and the long classic routes of Red Rocks. This is mainly because they are like nothing in Finland.
I've been climbing for about 8 years. I'm quite mediocre but experienced and would consider myself a safe climber. I've not climbed much in the USA but would think that I should be OK on 5.8 (perhaps not all). If I choose the 5.9s carefully, I'd like to think that I could climb quite a few but perhaps not in good style. I'd also like to try a couple of 5.10s but may just be being too ambitious. Having said all this, I'm not experienced with the YDS and every grade comparison table I look at is different. As I start to climb here you'll see what I've been up to.
I prefer trad but sport climbing is also fine.
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Just to add, I have climbed Tony nurmerous times and nurmerous locations and have always found him to be a very safe belayer and climbing partner (and not a bad person to boot). In fact he is so far from being reckless I do wonder what he is doing climbing at all ;).
Jody
P.s. Why can't I just edit a comment? and why does it mention all my deletes...
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