Indian Creek — Seek Out The Adventure

There is something about the southeast Utah desert. Something I can't explain. But I know that it beckons me.

I grew up in New York and Idaho. These areas both built inside of me the love for trees, rivers, mountains, and wildlife. When I met my wife, she always expressed her love for the deserts. The red sand, solitude, and artistic rock formations. Having so much in common, I saw that our love for different landscapes was the opposite factor that attracted us together.

After almost six years of marriage, I have ventured off into the deserts, mostly in Utah, with my wife on many occasions. I now see what draws her to a place that I once thought was full of dryness, death, and heat. Though the desert will never beat the mountains in my heart, I now crave that desert for its magnificent vistas, stupendous crack climbing, and its comfortable temperatures and sunshine when everywhere else is too cold to do anything.

This last spring, we took advantage of living only 3.5 hours from Moab, UT, giving us prime access to Indian Creek. Indian Creek is a land of sandstone buttresses, one right after the other, with inspiring splitter cracks with short approaches and bolted anchors. In March we spent a couple days here with a friend, Jason Flaster, that flew in from New York. Then in April, Jennilyn surprised me with a secret Creek Trip for my 28th birthday.

Now that the temps are higher than 100 degrees in this land of climbing paradise, we are anxiously waiting for fall to arrive for more desert action.