happy boulders

We dragged ZZN up to the Happy Boulders today, where Christa and Christine got a taste of bouldering and the lovely scene in the tablelands. Zoe enjoyed crawling along the rocks, playing with mini snowballs (and eating them) and picking up rocks.



I got flummoxed by Serengheti, despite doing it easily four years ago, and then we headed up the hill to get bewildered by 'Cueball' and finally ended up on Rio's Arete -- one of my favorites in the happys. Chloe was less enamored of it because she favors less technical thuggish climbs than I do, but she put in a good effort


After bouldering, we looked for the tablelands petroglyphs but gave up when we discovered that the road was covered in snow.

We had dinner and a pitcher of beer from Mammoth Mountain Brewing at a pizza joint in town. Bishop isn't exactly an epicurean wonderland, but pizza and beer are a pretty good cap to a day of bouldering.