Time marches on ...

I've gotten slack on the blog, mostly due to not publishing before we get to another place. For whatever reason i feel compelled to post stuff in a chronological order so when i miss a destination, that's where the trouble starts. I also wanted to change blogs and we've got a rest day in Boulder so i think it's time to tackle it, the new site does have some sort of subscription feature but not quite as simple as i'd hoped, i was hoping that i could have something that would notify people via a short email when i'd put in a new post and it has something similar but not exactly so if you know of anything that can do this please tell me. I'm reading help sites and feeling like such an idiot because i don't understand the bits which they gloss over at the start, assuming that any moron knows that bit.
There's a list of blogs that i've cut and paste from the previous blog page and afew that i've had as word docs on my hard drive.
We've got a couple of weeks before we're planning to be in Yosemite to meet up with Tanya and Jenny ... it'll be cool to see some familiar face after so long. We'll probably spent a couple more days around here in Boulder then head off for a week or so in Utah, mostly around Moab and the Canyonlands.
Boulder is pretty cool ... just ask any one who lives here, actually, you don't even need to ask, they're more than happy to tell they you. The food and shops are good, Ula has a new favourite gear store, Montbell, which does very nice, ultralight gear. The climbing in Eldorado Canyon is fantastic, we've done a bunch of multipitches since we've been here and they're all fantastic with Yellow Spur 5.10b going to that fuzzy, undecided area at the top of my all-time favourites list.
The thing that sucks here is the camping ... there is none, we've been hanging out at the crag(state park, no camping) then cruising back to town when it's dark to find an inconspicuous place in the neighbourhoods to stop and pull the curtains. It's been no problem so far but it's nicer when we don't have to be sneaky or drive for miles out of town to find something. We haven't had to pay for a night yet, if we're in an area to climb we usually look for the BLM (bureau of land management) land or for national forests were you can usually camp for free. It's not that the camping is expensive, usually $12 a night for no facilities up to $21 with facilities, it's just that we're not setting up a tent so paying for somewhere to park the car for the night just doesn't seem to make sense to us. We really had some good luck in Yellowstone, the camping there is at the more expensive end, it's crowded, and the park is big, too big for us to be able to drive out and find somewhere for the night. The luck came while climbing in the tetons when we met up with a couple climbing with there young son, Liz worked at the clinic in Yellowstone and has a staff cabin in the park where she invited us to stay for a couple of days. What a score, we camped in the van in the driveway and had use of the shower and kitchen and a real loungeroom to relax in at night, it felt like luxury for a couple of days.
i've only been spooked a couple of times and made Ula get up in the middle of the night to drive further down the road because i was sure the boogie man was outside.