So, to begin this I will preface this whole thing with these little gems of wisdom (?). For some reason I have been trying to have a portal that I can share some of the adventures I have with friends and let them see some of those photos I usually take of them (as all of you are always asking). In reality I been wanting to do something like this for a long ass time, so here it is in all of its glory.

So to start out I feel it only makes sense if I recap January as a very good month to be out bouldering. Yes I had several excellent days of climbing along with several great snow days all in January.

Additional Photos can be found here (or at the link to the upper right)

We begin this little adventure at Castlewood on January 5th!!! Plenty of snow to hike through, however, luckily Steve and I found some well covered rocks for a solid little session.

Really can’t believe that with as much snow as we had this area was dry (Location Link)

Bushwhacking (!?!) through c-wood.

Now for something a little nicer/warmer. Carter Lake evening session. Myself and Chris decided to go fly-fishing in Estes Park to take advantage of the day, well the fishing was going good until the wind picked-up and made it a little hard to toss those tiny flies. With Carter so close we decided to finish off the day with a quick evening session.

The next day we needed a little more climbing then the handful of problems we did at Carter, the only logical thing was to head off to Castlewood for late afternoon bouldering at the Buddha Cave area. Accomplices: Chris, Steve and Toby.

Chris in Berthoud Cave:

Steve trying to catch Monkey Shots:

On the way out we headed into a little trouble with the law. Apparently the park closes at 5:00 and when you come out in pitch black at 6:15 on a sunday night you get fined and stuff. But it’s all cool, we found out he was riding dirty…

Link to all the photos from the trip(s):

http://andylibrande.com/pictures/photos/album33