The weather for the most part this Spring has been warm and quite dry so the first weekend after we got back from France we headed for Buffalo crag with Tim and Lisa and did one of our first outdoor climbs this year. Actually, for Lisa it was her first ever outdoor climb, and, as […]

Just after lunchtime we found ourselves in Ely, Nevada, Elevation 7500ft (the cities in the SW all seem to have their elevation written on the signs instead of their population as in Canada. In many cases their elevation is probably a higher number). We stopped for gas and to ask in a local saloon (where […]

We woke pretty early to find that half the camp had already packed and left either immediately after the temple burn, or very first thing this morning. Glen was just on his way out and we said a hasty good-bye. We did our best to shake out the worst of the dust storm that happened […]

On the Sunday evening after the man burns there is a much more sombre affair when the temple, built by artist David Best, and this year looking very like something you might find in Marakesh, is burnt. In the afternoon we rode out to it. It wasn’t the first time we had visited the amazing […]

After the protest (which was one of the most fun things I have done so far), we all rolled back into camp and sat around the van whilst Glen made us his Mexican Pizza’s for lunch. He is a good guy to know, he loves to cook and he does wonderful things with pizza sauce! […]