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Yesterday my brother, Guss and Guss’ friend Nick all went to Priest Draw.

We started at “The Island” and warmed up.

From Best Warm Up Around

From Backside of the island, some sweet V0 - V2 climbs

After our warm up we hit up Bat Roof.

From Bat Roof w/ a Chris

From Bat Roof V1 and V3 starter hold w/ V1 finish.

From Batroof V1

After Bat Roof we hit up one more spot but I didn’t get pictures as I was exhausted and had to at least finish one route on this wall. Overall it was a super awesome day and I would recommend Priest Draw to anyone especially if it is your first time outdoor climbing. The rock is mostly limestone and mudstone so your hands don’t get ripped up and most of the routes are not too tall. I’ll be sure to post more about it in October.

I didn’t get many pictures of the climbs because I was climbing and no one else was helping me with my little endeavor but I’ll be going back Oct 9/10 so I’ll be sure to get more pictures as I won’t be so awe struck by how much fun the climbing is.

Also over the next few weeks I need to get lead certified so when things get chill around the valley I can go out and start hitting up some sport climbs. I hear there is a 5.7 sport climb on Camelback mountain that goes up the Monk. I have seen this rock formation all my life and I can tell you it will be so fantastically awesome to climb it.

Peace out, Safe Climbing

I know I’ve been neglecting this site but I’ve been doing some traveling and gearing up for this years outdoor Bouldering Season.   I’m really pushing hard to be able to consistently do V4’s and get into V5’s at the gym.  Currently I can do any V3 and I’m working on getting a few V4’s down.

I have plans on doing a trip to Flagstaff to try and check out Priest Draw.  If your bored and looking for something to do I plan on driving up around 6-7 am and try to get a bit of climbing in before it gets too hot.  More then anything it is to go out there and see what I can see.  We have plans on making a big trip with a few people from AZR here in the first or second week of August.

Mike now has a job at AZR so you can prolly visit him most days you are bored.  I did get my new camera but I haven’t got any really great footage with it.  We shall see what I can come up with when we hit Priest Draw. That about does it for updates, things are well we are all improving and enjoying climbing.  I’m sure we will be getting much more content here in the coming months.

Later, Dan