Our second destination on our big trip was Bishop, CA. This is one of the premiere bouldering destinations in the US and hosts the Buttermilks and Happy/Sad boulders (among others). After a day of testing our mettle in the Buttermilks (and getting sorely shut down), we had a bit more luck with the Happy/Sad’s. However, our fingers were so sore from the sharp granite of the B-milks, we couldn’t make it more than a half day :(. Oh well, we’ll be back!
On the way back home, after visiting my family in MT, we stopped by Salt Lake City for a day-and-a-half of bouldering in Little Cottonwood Canyon. Even though we had a guide book for the area, we had no clue what were good problems and what weren’t. Thus, we spent over a half day looking for boulders that ended up yielding little in the way of good climbing. Go figure, as we were leaving we saw some locals working a few lines and joined them for a really fun problem…guess we need to scout or beta a little better next time!
