after 7 days on we finally get a rest day. Right now we are the University of Utah Student center in blazing Salt Lake City, it's 100+ degrees. We ended up climbing the Yellow Spur at Eldo and it was pretty much one of my favorite climbs of all time. It's rated 10b s but 10b on the 8th pitch with only rusted pitons as gear feels a little bit harder than at Sand Rock. Anyway after leaving Boulder we headed to South Platte. Climbed a bunch of great cracks as well as some heinous offwidths. From there we drove to Rifle. Rifle is sport climbing paradise with amazing limestone routes just seconds off the road. The best routes there we thought were Feline, Easy Skankin', Rumor Has It, Eighty Feet of Meat, and Rehabilitator. I think i'm going to go back and spend some more time there one of these days. We've climbed the last three days in maple canyon. The climbing there is totally unique in that the wall is plastered with thousands of giant cobbles. You never know what kind of hold you are going to grab next so the onsight climbing is pretty hard. Onsighted quite a few elevens and after today I'll redpoint a few of my 5.12 projects. Well I'm off to get a milk shake to try and cool things down a bit but have a good one.