Teva Mountain Games: Vail, Colorado

Friday and Saturday Bag, Brad, Teri (Brads wife), and I headed to Vail to watch the Teva Mountain Games. We left Friday afternoon, got almost to Vail and camped out for the night somewhere between here and Vail. Did some bouldering of course at the camp site, what would a camp site be with out bouldering. Then Saturday morning headed to the Teva Mountain Games. It was a great time. We watch the bouldering semi finals in the morning, walked around in the afternoon, then the bouldering finals in the evening followed by a Xavier Rudd concert. They had everything there during the day, bouldering, mountain biking, kayaking, fly fishing, trail running, dogs jumping, everything. It was a lot of fun. They also had a gear town, which is were there was a ton of stuff to buy, everything from camping, to rock climbing, to bags, to rafts, clothes. There were many things I kept saying I wanted to buy, but don't worry mom, I only got a fleece. Nothing too much. I did want a pair of Teva shoes, but maybe those will just be my first pay check! :) 

Other than a weekend at Vail and watching awesome bouldering. Both men and women competing, doing amazing moves, grabs, and somehow finishing some of those problems. Today was a full day at work. I spent the morning planning the photo scavenger hunt we had for the middle schoolers this evening. Then the afternoon I spent looking for a place to stay during our missions trip to San Francisco. So hopefully some people email me back tomorrow so I can get that planned out. But if you know of anyone that can house 30 people for a week in July in San Francisco, let me know I would love the help!

I will just leave you here with pictures from the weekend. I will try to put captions on them so you know what is going on possibly....

Bag bouldering at night. I just thought this was a cool picture.

some more bouldering, bare foot.

Im going to make the bouldering ones a bit bigger, so you can actually see what they are doing.  

Women's bouldering

 In bouldering they have to start with their hands in the white taped box, and their feet on the correct holds underneath that. Then make it to the top where the last hold is with the white tape. They have to have a hold on the last piece with one hand, and at least touch it with their other hand before they jump back down.  Men's and women's have different problems to solve. For this competition there were 4 a piece. So you get 5 minutes to try to solve it, then 5 minute break, then back to 5 minutes to solve the next problem. 

This is kind of a picture of  a few of the problems they have.

One of the women that got to the top. 

There were sooo many dogs there! I loved them all!!

Teri and I wanted to take home so many of the dogs that were there. 

One of the mens championship problems.

One of the women's championship problems. They had to jump from two of the holds two panels down from there. 

Another women's championship problem. This girl knew she was going to win it.  

And then she knew for sure she would win it. She completed all the problems. 

Then the Xavier Rudd concert.

These are the new Teva Gnarkosi shoes I want.....  :)