The girls couldn't wait to try their new crashpad!

The girls paid attention to Pascale's every move...

It is so fun to climb with experienced climbers. They are just beautiful to watch!

Pascale showing the girls another bouldering problem

When we left our friends' home on Sunday morning, it was just above 0 degrees... We put on longjohns and layers of wool and headed out to Mount Lemmon. By the time we reached Marble Cake Boulder, we had striped down to our t-shirts! The sun was glorious and the place where we set upvlooked like an oasis in the middle of a canyon.

We are new to bouldering and it is hard work! It is also quite different to not be ropped in and to feel *very* high (even if you're not that high). Most of us chickened out and did not top out any problem, but it is still fun to work on them. It was great to see how determined our kids were to figure them out, how they helped and spotted each other, how they moved the crashpads around depending on where the climber was, as they had seen many times in rock climbing movies... They worked hard!