Last Saturday Loren talked me into heading up to Hyalite Canyon to belay him on his mixed project. To be honest, it didn’t take much prodding – Hyalite is possibly my favorite place in the Bozeman area and I don’t spend enough time up there in the winter. On top of that, I was curious about this whole mixed climbing thing. Since we were heading to Billings for a comp (keep reading…) I didn’t really want to rope up, but I was happy enjoying the canyon while belaying Loren. Here’s a few photos from the morning and a video of one of Loren’s attempts on ‘Northwest Passage.’ Make sure you watch it til’ the end…
Roping up for battle in the Bingo Cave
Lowering off ‘Northwest Passage’
As I mentioned, we finished up at Hyalite, drove back to town, picked up Sarah, then headed straight to Billings for the Montana Bouldering Championships at Steepworld. Somehow we ended up with a car full of winners – Loren and I tied for top Men’s Amateur (aka scamateur) and Sarah won Woman’s Open. Congrats SHo! I didn’t take any photos during the main comp, but here some crappy shots I took during finals:
Dominic crushing the super-final on his way to victory.
Charlie on the super-final.
SHo earning her belt buckle woman’s final #2
Becky on woman’s #1 and K-Fed on men’s #1
SHo on woman’s #1
Walter on men’s #1
-EC
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