Moab Party

Dates: April 27th-29th, 2012

Who: New friends, old friends, and other randoms (~25ppl)

Where: Moab, Utah

The text message from Jon Sexauer, the organizer of one hell of a weekend, simply said: “Drive on the gravel road for 8.6 miles and look for the campsite at the base of the Sandstone features”. Simple enough, well unless you are driving down a dirt-road at 1am in pitch black hoping you are even on the right road; somehow we found them.  The campsite Saturday under the last glows of sunset:

In the morning Vinny, Amanda, Jenny and Myself randomly decided to climb Ancient Art in the Fisher Towers. You may recognize this climb from the popular credit card commercial on air lately. We showed up a little late (took 1 hr to get there from our campsite), however our late arrival worked to our advantage as this climb is now super popular and we ended up being the last party up the wall and enjoyed the afternoon by ourselves. We didn’t do the incredible top-out due to some crazy wind that started up as the sun was getting lower in the sky and makes it another reason to come back and do it again. Regardless one awesome chunk of rock.

Group photo after climbing. The top of ancient art is sticking up just over my left shoulder:

Vinny on the Rappel from the party ledge: 

On the way out we ran into Slackline Andy (featured in the superbowl with Madonna) as he was planning how to film their crazy slackline set-up that was between two of the towers. Follow this link to see the crazyness!!!

That night we partied hard, somehow cooked dinner on the fire, played on the sandstone rocks, and enjoyed the perfect weather. The next morning all of us were a little slow but we continued the fun in Moab. Here is our campsite in the middle of nowhere on the last morning:

Sunday we did a quick trip of climbing at Wall-street. Here the Three Stooges admiring some climbers:

Vinny crushing the climb Potash Bong Hit:

Overall a quick trip to Moab with perfect weather and a fun crew.