12,000+ Miles in less than Five Months

Since Jan 9, we've taken dozens of trips to climb from Salt Lake City, including several to Moe's Valley (St. George, Utah), two to Bishop, California, one to Moab and Kane Springs Canyon, three to Bozeman, Montana, and a *buttload* to Joe's Valley.

I'm about to leave Salt Lake City for the summer. I'll spend the first month in Ten Sleep, Wyoming trying to remind my forearms how to climb more than ten moves at a time. After that, I'll head to Sweden where I'll hopefully get to boulder, trad climb, and sport climb.

JOE'S VALLEY, UTAH

David sending Beyond Live (Gustavo Moser photo).

Sucking in Joe's 3 from David Sjoquist on Vimeo.

BISHOP, CALIFORNIA

Bishop from David Sjoquist on Vimeo.

MOAB: KANE SPRINGS CANYON, UTAH

MOE'S VALLEY, UTAH

Season Finale: Sucking in Joe's

Sucking in Joe's 4 from David Sjoquist on Vimeo.

"Sucking in Joe's III"

The video has arrived!

Sucking in Joe's 3 from David Sjoquist on Vimeo.

Apologies for the Silence

Apologies for the silence recently! Though we've been taking lots of trips (to Joe's Valley), I haven't been taking many pictures.

A few weeks ago, a Nikon D5100 joined the family, and since then I've relinquished all photographic and cinematographic responsibilities.

Though this camera takes amazing video, there have been a few bugs with the editing software-- and therefore difficulties completing movie projects.

But it seems a solution has been found, and a new movie is on its way.

On a different note, Isaac Caldiero just put out a hot-off-the-press guidebook to Joe's Valley. If you're going to Joe's bring $25 cash and look for Isaac's gold Saturn (or brown + white RV) cruising around.

Meanwhile, here is a some short video clip.

Freak (V10)

Freak from David Sjoquist on Vimeo.

Joe's Valley Fri + Sat

Here's a video David made about the weekend's trip. Pretty fun- though it was my turn for "sucking in Joe's" this time.

Anyway- it was great for the soul to see some sun and run into + climb with friends.

Sucking in Joe's 2 from David Sjoquist on Vimeo.

Guess where we're going...

Video of the Trip

Here's a movie that David made from our 1.5-day, sprint trip to Joe's Valley.

Sucking in Joe's from David Sjoquist on Vimeo.

Not all climbing movies have to be cool.

Joe's Valley: Take One AKA "The Shut Down"

Last weekend, we did season-first trip to Joe's Valley. For a lot of reasons, the climbing smashed us- so we retreated to Salt Lake City to rest for as many days as possible before our upcoming Bishop trip. Anyway. Here are some photos. (More next time!)

Coal Mines near New Joe's.

(There is almost no climbing in this movie, but there's some pretty sweet driving and car dancing.)