Midweek, I started to feel the adventure gut feeling. I quickly glanced over the weather forecasts in the area. Purgatory showed rain-snow, and all I could imagine is that rain-snow hitting my face like little needles as my shoulder felt that rain-snow slush… Not really that great. I jumped to the Creek, and it showed a forecast of heavy rains. You just can’t climb sandstone in the rain – bad for the rock and dangerous.
In a last ditch effort, I glanced at El Rito, New Mexico. The forecast showed clouds and 52 degree weather, not bad. Is it worth a three hour drive? Yes. Yes, it is.
Three hours for three routes, and yet there is some sort of fulfillment you get from leading. And, just overall climbing. We didn’t just sit in our living room, we climbed. This picture shows it all:
We climbed two new routes set in August 2017, completely new to even the area. We had a blast! We just talked, sat, and climbed. I loved it. We loved it.
