Bear Valley

Let me apologize ahead of time. This post is two and a half weeks over due. Graduate school is a busy time in my life, as was the couple of weeks of freedom before the semester began. I made the most of it on a bouldering expedition into the edge of the wild. The frontier that is home to Super Sectors of rock that dwarf most other boulder fields I've ever seen.
Marla, Bryan Vansickle, Amiee Dog, and Myself loaded two jeeps with as much as they could hold. We drove all day to the northern margins of Wyoming then onto horrendous roads for several more hours into the land of the Bear. We went to work finding the best out of several hundred thousand boulders in a place of complete and total wild. It was an amazing place to find ones self for a while. Grizzly Bear were abundant and kept a primitive edge to the days and nights. With little time to describe things, I will leave this as a photo essay for now.

Blew a tire on the really poor roads on the drive in. 



Fixed it with a Gorilla Tape plug pushed in with a tent stake. Will I ever forget my plug kit again? Hell No.

The first day's walk

First day bouldering

This is half of one multi mile sector, among dozens of various sized sectors. There are more climbable and too large to climb boulders in this sector alone to count. Like looking at the Milky Way.