Yesterday Mike, Cheryl, Khola and I went to Maple Canyon. It's about 1:45 south of Salt Lake City. Really cool area with strange conglomerate rock that makes the cliffs look like a big pile of river stones turned upside-down. The rock is relatively solid and makes for really interesting climbing that is very difficult to read. Is that next cobble going to be smooth and slippery-slopery or is it going to have some big sinker secret pocket? Who knows! It was great to get out sport climbing again. It used to be my favorite type of climbing, but there just isn't much around the Bay Area, so this was the first time I'd gone in about 1.8 years. The last time I went sport climbing was in Thailand in 2005/06. It's nice to be living somewhere close to sport climbing again. Maple isn't even the closest place to Salt Lake. American Fork is about an hour closer, but Mike and Cheryl had the whole day off so we went for a longer trip.
Photos of Maple Canyon on Flickr
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