More pictures, less words

Checking in from Index, Washington on this toasty Sunday morning.  We pulled in here Thursday night and spent the past two days climbing some awesome routes (on granite too!) The camping is scenic, the scene is funky (to put it gently), and the river is refreshingly cold.  We will probably be here for a couple more days before we head up North to Squamish!

Last week we wrapped up climbing in Smith as the weather was about to heat up.  Our friend Tegan, who Greg introduced us to, let us stay at her place right by Smith the last couple days we were there and it was amazing!  She grew up climbing at Smith and it was awesome to hang out with someone so familiar with the area.  Plus she is a great cook- we were spoiled to say the least.  Oh, and she has dogs!!  I miss Buddy and Mia a lot (everyone who sees them, send me pictures!!!), so it was also really nice to hang out with some dogs.

Here are some pictures from Tegan's house:

Our last day climbing in Smith, Greg onsighted two 5.12s!  One of them was Dreamin (5.12a R) and I was able to get some cool pictures of him on it.

We also spent a half day at a place called Trout Creek, a small area packed with classic splitter crack climbs before we left Oregon.  I haven't crack climbed in a long time so it was definitely an adjustment, but I am glad we checked it out.  There was no one else climbing so we had the place to ourselves and got to sample some of the classic lines.  After, we took a dip in the Deschutes then hit the road for Index.  Here are some pictures from Trout Creek, and Alix on JR Token that Drew took.

Yesterday we partied up some classic Index moderates with Drew and Alix and had a blast.

As for what's up next, we will be heading to Squamish and staying there for July and August.  Mark and I have never been, but we have only heard good things.

Until next time,
xoxo Lauren and Mark