Rough hands and a rest day....

So we got back out to the Buttermilk boulders yesterday to do some more climbing...got some more cool routes in. Man....the rock out here hurts....it is like using a cheese grater for a hand hold...I think we all came out of the climbing session with some "skin issues" (i.e. there is less skin on everyone's fingers now than when we got here...)...but we enjoyed the climbing and sent some cool routes.

After we got back from climbing we ate some Japanese (apparently fried rice is not Japanese...so I had to settle for white rice)... did some liquor shopping...bought some playing cards and snacks...and went back to the campsite to hang out. Needless to say, we enjoyed ourselves...got a bit drunk, got a bit loud....and I won a game called "asshole" six times in a row (I learned to play last night....).

Thank God today was a rest day...my fingers could not have taken another day of climbing...

Woke up a bit late this morning, had some bacon & eggs (we cooked them on a backpacking stove...it took a while), and did some local exploring. We drove into a town called Lone Pine to check our a gear store (Elevation)...we can spend a lot of time checking out gear if we are allowed...It was a small place, but it had some pretty cool stuff. On the way over and back from elevation, we saw a snow storm dump a bunch of powder on a mountain range along the road...it was pretty sweet to see...especially since the snow wasn't heading our way....

When we got back to Bishop, we grabbed something to eat at a pretty cool little sandwich shop and decided to check out the new Harry Potter movie (yea we did....). I showed everyone how much of a loser I am by telling them the characters they were thinking about and how to pronounce there names and all....yea...I'm a loser....what of it?

Right now we are sitting in a starbucks...they are trying to close up...and they hate us...but we don't care...

err...music...I don't know most of the bands, but here goes:

Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend

Beastie Boys -Anthology: The Sound of Science

Kings of Leon - Only by the Night

Dropkick Murphy's - The Warrior's Code

As they mop around our table at Starbucks, I feel compelled to keep this one short...hopefully we will get some pictures out to you soon.

Talk to you soon...