Bouldering Grouse

My college friend Paul and I headed up to the Grouse slabs to do some bouldering today. It was a simple plan: we were going to boulder, head back to Alta to use my new compass to find the property lines and then crash in the cabin. Unfortunately, my crappy memory had other plans, and I managed to forget the keys to the cabin in my car and didn't realize it until we were more than halfway to the crag (Chloe called and asked if I had remembered them). To Paul's credit, he wasn't visibly phased by this development and we still had a great time bouldering. I hit a few dynos which had shut me down before and sent the way overgraded #21 in the new supertopo guide. We were both a little surprised to see patches of snow along the trail and near the landing so several boulders.


After some compassing and chainsawing of paths, we made a fire pit (no access to the cabin=no hibachi!) and grilled up corn and steak while drinking some SNPAs: A great way to end a day of bouldering