Camping in Buena Vista - Day 2, Part 2 of 3

After a morning of rafting at Noah's, we ventured over to Bob's Rock for some climbing at this historic spot.  Josh started us off and did some lead climbing to get the top ropes set up.  We tried to set up near some routes that most of the kids could probably tackle.

Here is a picture of Gage in the green making his way about half way up the route.  One of our friend Adam Renfro's kids is slightly above Gage climbing.  Gage used to do a lot of climbing, but since breaking his arm he mostly stopped.  Part of that was due to his injury, but part of it was just us not being able to facilitate the drive to Boulder every week for climbing lessons.

The top of the route was particularly challenging, but Gage was able to make it all the way up after some great instruction from about 60 feet up.  You can see his great moves above as he tries to get through the crux of the route.

Meanwhile, down below, Gavin was lizard hunting and somehow managed to catch a small gecko or rock lizard which he was overjoyed to parade around.  Thankfully, we convinced him to let the little guy go back to his home next to Bob's Rock.

After the kids got all their climbing in, the adults were up to see how we could do on the same routes.  I was actually fairly surprised at how hard the top of the route was that most of the kids finished.  It had been quite a while since I had climbed, so it was pretty fun to strap on the old climbing shoes and chalk bag.  I did, however, forget how painful those climbing shoes can be.  Here I am coming down after reaching the top.

Here is Andrea and I at the bottom of the route.  She was kind enough to belay me through the whole endeavor.  We swapped after this and Andrea ascended the same route.