The Cathedral

Today we drove west out of St. George to Welcome Springs and the Cathedral crag, which was spectacular. The hike up takes you past a desert oasis of cottonwoods and streams and through a valley flanked by blue and orange limestone faces. After getting a little lost, we arrived at the Cathdral:



Warmed up on "Pagan Rituals", did the excellent "Worshipping the Limestone Gods", and then walked over to the Wailing Wall. At the wailing wall, I barely onsighted Rising Expectations (not me, but the correct climb):

And then got shut down on one of the 12a's to the right of it. We finished up on "Casting Asperations", walked back to the Cathedral and I unfortunately got pretty shut down on "speaking in tongues". We watched a guy (I think his name was Todd) almost send an incredibly hard looking line in the middle of the cave ("The Incredible Huck?"). There were about 8 people at the crag when we were there, and the atmosphere was great; everyone was willing to give us information about climbs that weren't in the guidebook.