1. The climbing is crazy cool. We're staying at this place called Priest Draw. It's limestone and it makes tons of completely horizontal roofs.
this is a horizontal roof 30ish feet in the air. It's high enough to be 5.13 trad instead of a boulder problem.
2.The scenery here is also beautiful. We took some side trips. One was to the Grand Canyon, where we got to go on a short hike out to a pinnacle. No one else was there. The other was to Sunset Crater Volcano and some sweet Indian Ruins. Tomorrow we'll do the drive through Oak Creek Canyon down to Sedona (one of the most beautiful drives I've ever done).
these are at the Draw. The sunset with a storm cloud and the high alt. meadow
an elk and some ancient lava flows
ancient volcanoes and indian ruins
the GC! We went with Micah's friends Tony and Courtney. They had a girl from France visiting named Luna. I told her that our names put together make a famous picture book.
3. Matt is here! He was turned into a lizard thing, but he got better!
The bad stuff about Flag is 1. the roadsigns are very confusing. The are non-existent or right next to the turn (so you'd have to slam on the brakes in order to just miss the turn and cause a massive traffic pile-up). 2. there are thieves here. We got our car broken into (luckily not causing any damage to the car). Our iPods were stolen along with my CDs and Camelbak (which had credit card, all my money, drivers license, etc.). Missing my license and music are the biggest bummers. Please feel free to e-mail me any music you think is necessary (Stella.the.Giant@gmail.com is best, but smascari@wooster.edu works too). It has been a big pain in the ass, but things are slowly getting taken care of.
To finish off this entry, here's a picture of New Mexico (if you zoom in, the mountain has sweet patterns on it):
I love and miss you all!
-Stella
5 comments:
Stella! This is so cool, reading about all your exciting travels :) As for me, I'm taking some OSU classes this quarter, working, and trying to save up money to go to China.
I'll bet you're having the most amazing time. Just wanted to say hi.
Lots of love,
Rebekah
Uncle Bob would tell you that you can't trust anyone and to always keep your valuables out of sight.
Don't you have a history of losing Ipods to Arizona folks?
Stella, I really like your pictures especally all the geology.
HI!!!! Guess what?! Nothing really cool has happened here. :{ I miss you alot and love the pictures of the grand canyon which are sooooo cool!!!!!!!!!! Lots of LOVE!!
yo! i thought you had a policy of never leaving ipods in the car anymore?! stella...
well i'm not going to rub it in, i know it's a bummer. LUCKILY, i own all of your music. or at least all of it that matters (NO country). whenever i see you again we can fix this. so did you steal a crystal from a hippie shop or something? perhaps you haven't been accumulating enough good karma. maybe you should start sharing your silverware or something?
hope you are livin life and lovin it, brah.
love,
amber
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