After leaving Durango, we stopped by Canyon Lands National Park to visit the world famous climbing area known as Indian Creek – a sandstone canyon with vertical cracks and smooth rock faces running up hundreds of feet.
The red sandstone that defines the canyon is ideal for climbing. This rock is not brittle like young sandstone; The Creek’s stone is extremely dense. When climbing here one does not have the option to use the face (outside of the crack) of the wall. The smooth face forces one to advance up the wall inside the crack. Looking up a several hundred feet of solid rock is intimidating, but the adrenaline and the views make it all worth it.
Climbing (crack) traditionally at “The Creek”
Our time in The Creek was brief, because we had to be out to San Jose, CA by Sunday night to work three days for “Get Motivated Seminars”. We marathon drove 24 hours, crossing Nevada on “The Loneliest Highway in America”. We thought Northern Nevada was going to be flat desert; rather, it was rugged mountains with lots of snow.
We put in three days of work in San Jose and Sacramento. Some of our awesome fellow co-workers even donated $120 to help us bless hitchhikers we meet (with food, water, etc.). We were also able to hunt down 55 gallons of vegetable oil in downtown San Jose that brought Eleanor’s tank back to full.
Our Yosemite plans have been temporarily thwarted by snow and road closures, so we are heading south to give the valley time to thaw out. Today we enjoyed the beautiful drive down the Pacific Coast Highway from San Francisco to Santa Cruz, complete with organic strawberry shortcake from a roadside farm, a swimsuit model shoot in a cove (don’t worry Mom’s, we weren’t doing the shooting), and a little beach bouldering.
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