Another day in Sedona. I have to say I really appreciate the fact that I can either choose to ski, go sledding or snow shoe up here in Flagstaff or drive 40 min. down to Sedona for Rock Scrambling or mountain biking or even road biking or hiking or swimming with a wet suit, wading. We noticed the water was mighty high as we were tooling down Oak Creek Canyon this morning. So we decided, and since we had the guidebook (thanks Jason), we would go to the Chapel area -- Mission to Mars.
Pretty awesome looking rock. There was one super fun climb and then several things that were harder. I tried to go up another but wasn't psyched on the rock quality at the second pin and it was a long way to the next bolt...maybe it would be different if I saw someone else on it.We went to a boulder between Bell Rock and Courthouse Butte. It was pretty fun with a handful of problems in a wash. Bell rock has one of the four Sedona Vortexes on it, in it, around it? I didn't really feel the vortex but here's how a website describes it.
"Bell rock possesses energy of the "active" type, which spirals up, encircling you. Experiment sensing this energy while on the rock by first briskly rubbing your hands together, then hold your palms first upward with arms outstretched, then downward, feeling the invisible forces at work either lifting or pushing down."Another website says the vortex waxes and wanes. Maybe we were there on a waning day. But we weren't actually on Bell Rock either.
I stared at a couple of lines I liked on Courthouse Butte. My friend Tomas told me about some really hard lines up there, well, sketchy. After staring at it for awhile I found an anchor on the line I liked the most. I looked up the Butte online and found John Burcham had put up two routes up there. One is a 10+ sandbagged off-width. Sounds like fun; I'll have to call Ashley.
I'd like to go on about vortexes. I picked up a book a the Bike and Bean store (that's bean as in coffee bean) and started to read it. Since it's time for me to hit the sack, I'll bore you later with vortices (both are correct according to the book).
