So we managed to roll into town at about midnight and post up at a hotel somewhere near the mouth of the canyon. We made it to the resort this morning and scoped what we thought would be the Day 1 venue, but halfway through the day patrollers announced the first (and likely every day’s) venue would be Kachina Peak. We made the half-hour or so trek up the 12,481′ peak and picked out some lines. Athlete meeting at 6p and then Day 1 of the event tomorrow.

A couple photos from today ->

Entering New Mexico. Bad time for murder mystery reading time.

Weirdo clouds.

There’s skiing in New Mexico?

Nik snapping pics of the old venue

Kachina Peak

So the plan is to update from this road, but that may not work for a few reasons:
-I’m lazy
-I’m writing from my phone
-The internet hasn’t been invented in southern Utah yet

—10:30a—
Leaving the SLC way later than we should have

—2:13p—
Some dinky town in Utah near Wellington I think

—4:00p—
Leaving Moab

—5:52p—
Entering CO

—6:47p—
Cortez, CO

—12:02a—
In Taos, no idea where. Going to bed.

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Leaving the dorms

Leaving SLC

Pryce

Moab

Middle of nowhere UT

Cortez, CO

Somewhere in Taos