…And on the third day, we rested.
July 10th, 2009 | Published in America Roadtrip
The clouds hung low over the mountains in Boulder again. Low, and incredibly threatening. We’d used our only real rain contingency plan the previous day with our visit to the Spot, so we weren’t quite sure what to do with ourselves. The clouds and damp were enough to put you off climbing, but they weren’t anywhere near as much of a hinderance as our now ravaged finger tips! I hate to sound like a broken record, but it was a repeating problem. A lazy breakfast was in order, followed by another stroll round the town. We drove out a little way to a open air mall type place which promised us another outdoor store. We wandered slowly round browsing in various shops with no real agenda. We sat and sipped at smoothies from Jamba Juice, and I found a pair of Sanuk-equivilent-Sketchers for a bargain price. The climbing store offered yet another poor range of climbing shoes, so we cut our losses and headed back to the hotel.
Ben chilling in Jamba Juice
As the skies opened properly for the first time that day, we decided to put our free time to good use. We’d been shooting all this footage, and I’d been managing to dump some of it over the course of a few evenings – it was time to put a new video together! Our new Ford Focus was fitted with Sirius radio. This turned out to be a God send! We’d managed to find an Elecrtronica/Chill Out station called Chill XM, which played nothing but pretty much constant climbing video music. We’d kept a pen and paper handy to note down all the new artists which we would usually have had to scour the internet for being delivered right into our laps as we covered the hundreds of miles between Hueco and Boulder. So, with new music sourced it was time to get to work. The fruits of that afternoons efforts has already been posted on here, but here it is again…
We were getting slicker now. Granted, the video is only six minutes long but I was still pretty impressed that we managed to turn it over and have it uploading in just over three hours. It was a rest day well spent in my opinion, and we certainly earned our slap up dinner at Red Lobster! After dinner, we got packed up and rounded the night off with a few games of pool in the hotel. As a full blown storm set in for the night, we were ready to leave Boulder and head on to our next destination – Moab, Utah…