Sedona, AZ - Day 76

The scene of the crime - we started from about where I took the picture, then hiked up to the base of the structure on the left, and then climbed the shorter thinner structure just next to that.
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So, pretty much the next few stops along our trip were to go rock climbing.  I'll spare you all the borring details of each and every climb and give you the overviews :o)

In Sedona, we did a multi pitch spire climb - Queen Victoria was the name of the rock.  Multi-pitch climbs consist of climbing up XX feet, then stopping, then continuing to climb XX more feet, and stopping, and so on and so forth.  This climb was 300 ft.  However, we also had to hike 700ft up to get to the base of the climb, so at the top, we were standing on a spire about 1000 ft above the ground.  Okay, well Josh was.  I only made it about two and a half pitches, but there were some moves I just couldn't do, so I waited for him to finish and then we all rapelled back down.  Hey, it was only my second climb ever!  It was super windy too, which made things interesting as well.

Queen Victoria spire on the right
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Unfortunately we don't have the pictures back from our guide of us actually climbing, but check out the rock we were on top of, and maybe that'll give you a better idea of what we've been doing!