Bouldering Bliss

Chloe and I got an early start and hit the Bliss boulders today. I still couldn't send that damn arete, but we had fun on some other problems.



Heres the arete that I kept getting spooked on

It was still too early in the season for a lot of traffic around the lake thankfully,

and the trip back to Alta didn't take very long.
We cooked up a birthday meal of fancy steaks on our little hibachi, and used our new steak knives from Correze, which work amazingly well


They even brought out a brownie birthday cake for me!


Chloe bought me a beautiful Correze knive with a "genevrier" handle. According to Wiki, Genevrier is Juniper. It smells wonderful, although my initial guess was that it was cedar rather than Juniper. Limited googling seems to indicate that they are very related though. She also bought me two great shirts from the Pacific Whale Foundation (The tour operator of our ill fated skin diving trip on Maui). THANK YOU CHLOE!!! My parents got me the Ceccaldi knife, some excellent books on furniture making, and some money to buy a new kiteboarding harness.

After baths in the rotenburo, we all went to sleep. My parents decided to try out the new tent that they bought, and chloe and I went to the loft to enjoy our windows. I took a few long exposure shots of my parents walking back up the path to their tent: