Back in Moe's

It turns out we had another weekend in Moe's. Not too much difference from other trips, same old same and I love it: 4 days in the dessert sun with a buttload of bouldering.

We did go in to town one night, driving around, went to a cinema etc. While driving around we past the Mormon Tempel in St. George, my first reaction was "Ohboy, look at this fucking shit", my second thought was that we should go in to the "Visitor center" and listen to what they had to say. It's weird, I had almost the exact same feeling when I entered this "Visitor Center" as I had when I entered a bordello in Spain to buy a Coke. As soon we came in the entrance a "nice" looking guy in suit immediately starting to ask question about where we were from and what he could "help us with". After a couple of minutes we where on a "tour" with a missionary through a place filled with Jesus statues, paintings of Mormon leaders, a table with "The Book of Mormon" in 70 languages and diorama of a modern Mormon family etc. No mather what how fucked up I think this whole religious thing is, at the same time I think its really interesting who SO many people blindly just accept and believe in it - how you can just skip all the logic behind it and happily "give" your life to it, with everything from money(10 % of your income), time, and lifestyle.

"Finding boulders in Joe's Valley is like picking out a Mormon in a shopping mall in the middle of Provo" - Isaac Caldiero

St. George's Mormon Temple

The Satan Coffee goes domestic

Christine on IsRail V6, yummy

For you guys who dosent really get it, here's some advise

Rest day hike

Gangbanged - lets get the hell out of there

Chips and PBR's

Some weird traverse on the Monkey Boy Boulder

Moonraker V9:ish

Moonraker V9 from David Sjoquist on Vimeo.

Here is a short, dippy little video of one problem on the Cave Boulder

Bazooka Tooth V10:ish in Moe's Valley

Here is a "showoff" photo series of this fun "jungle-climbing-problem":

BISHOP

Im trying new tactics for this blogpost, A; posting WAY more photos so I wont have to write so much. B; trying to write in English because this damn keyboard doesn't have our nice Swedish letters.

So, I was down in Bishop for 5 days. Probably one of the most beautiful places I ever been to. Its a lot of areas to climb in but we spent our 3 climbing days in Buttermilks where you probably could spend 3 years without getting bored. Buttermilks have some of the biggest, tallest boulders in the world and it's so cool just being around them.

A cause of that is that most of the problems are really high and kinda scary, you can get around that by either not climb those problems or bring a fuck load of pads. Another thing to know about Buttermilks is that even though the boulders are those big, round egg shaped things, its kinda sharp - at least until your skin get used to it. For those fuckers that think Kjugekull is sharp, after a visit here, you will look at Kjugekull as nothing else then a innocent baby butt without hair.

Down town Bishop

Waking up time right bye Buttermilks main area

Christine under the Cave Boulder

Kaffe and the eastern Sierras

One of the rest day hikes, looking for boulders to try the following day

Some extreme mountaineering

As an extreme mountaineer, its all about the freaking descent

Christine is doing one of the classic boulders on the "Green Wall"

Kevin is finishing one of the boulders on the "Grandma Peabody" boulder

Maybe one of the most famous problem in Bishop, The Checkerboard.

Christine are doing "Milk the Milks", a really cool V6 problem on the "Tut"- boulder

The "Tut" boulder again, me, dragging my Swedish butt up on "Howard Carter sit start" - a V6 thing thats definitely ended up being one of my favorites.

Pervert, masturbating in the bushes

OH BOY, such a cool problem, and also something i definitely will come back to in a month or so. This is Stained Glass V10, by far the most beautiful looking problem I tried this time.

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Soul Slinger, a classic, super fun V9

Leisel on one of the problems on the "Drifter" boulder