… so this will be short.
We headed up Cougar Creek this afternoon for a bit of cragging.
It was good to get back outside on real rocks again (my quick session on the auto-belays at the climbing gym last night just wasn’t the same!). In the ten days or so since I left for the coast, summer has arrived here in the mountains!
The view from partway up one of the routes on Cat’s Eye Wall… it never ceases to amaze me how quite large trees manage to grow right out of the rock face.
I did snap a few reference shots of climbers as well as natural forms (rocks, stumps) for future sketching sessions, but mostly, I just enjoyed being back outside, the low murmur and mumble of Cougar Creek in the background.
Hmmm… not quite sure why my video isn’t looping after I upload it… And, too tired to figure it out right at the moment.
While I was hanging around on the end of a rope, Dad was busy sending me all kinds of interesting art-y reference material. I’ll have to digest that when I have a few minutes and I’m not falling asleep sitting up! I would say tomorrow, but we have plans to climb again, so maybe not…
It’s a good kind of tired, this… after an afternoon of fresh air and sunshine!
Sleeping Woman by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, 1913
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