life in... Ohio?

Hello friends, family, and friends of my family!
Since the last post, I've been in Ohio. It's not very exciting here, but it was nice to come home and be able to sleep indoors again! Micah and I visited Wooster, also. It was really nice to see all my friends from school again. We even got taken out for dinner and breakfast while we were there (not to mention tons of stolen food from the cafeteria)!
After being at home again for a while (and watching at least one movie a day due to boredom), we decided to face the cold and head down to good ol' West Virginee. We spent 5 days there (the temps only breaking 50 one day, and the low being 16 one night), and despite the cold, had a great time. It was great to see Roger, the campground host, again, and all the guys from the Pies & Pints kitchen, and we did some fantastic bouldering. Unfortunately, this was a spur of the moment post, so I'm not using the computer with the pictures or video on it, but Micah already posted them at www.chetroy.com/home/blog.html. The video's really just a trailer for our full video that we'll make later when we add more footage in early January.

Peace out homies. I love you all!
-Stella!

Hueco!

These previous pictures are of the miracle we saw. If you look close enough, you can see the beams of light converging onto the location of the miracle.


Next are some of the extremely few Hueco pictures we took. The first is on the Donkey Show boulder of East Mountain.

The second is this V9 in the Maze on the East Spur. No, I didn't send, but I could get my fingers to go way further back in these holds than most people can.

Here's the beta on Hueco for anyone that's interested:
Only 170 (I think) people are let into the park each day. North Mountain is the only place you can go without a guide, but it's HUGE, so it's not too bad. I think a total of 70 people can be on North Mountain at one time. East Mountain, West Mountain, and East Spur require guides. You can take a free tour with volunteer guides offered by the park, or a $20-a-person tour offered by the campground (Hueco Rock Ranch). 10 tours can be out per day (100 people). Depending on the time of year, it can be super easy or impossible to get into the park without waking up at 5:30am each day. When we were there, it was super easy. One way to ensure you get into the park, is to make reservations at least 3 months in advance. You pay the park money for these reservations, then get the money back each day you show up for your reservation. As far as I know, you can reserve volunteer and commercial tours too, but we never did that.
Reason to pay for commercial tours instead of just doing volunteer tours: both are good, but the commercial tourguides know where everything is, and the easiest way to get you there, whereas a volunteer tourguide may not. **don't forget that it's customary to tip your tourguide**

Okay, Micah put up our sweet Hueco video, so go to Chetroy.com to see it. It's one of my favorite movies so far.

I love you all!
-Stella