Justin, who we meet at the natural grocer here in Saint George, expressed interest in learning to climb. It’s hot this afternoon, so we take him to the Green Valley gap where we hope to find a little shade. This works pretty well, and we enjoy the short, featured sandstone routes into the evening. Justin climbs everything we throw at him without much apparent struggle – it’s probably too early to give him rope gun duty, so we might have to find some harder topropes next time.

Routes: Unknown ~5.7 across from Perky’s Playground, fail on the hard route that shares the anchor, The Wave 5.10b, Puppet Strings 5.10a, Shotgun Baptism 5.10+ TR