May 2001
Mary Lou and I went to Devil's Lake for a 'final' Midwestern climbing trip for me, and a first outdoor climbing trip for Mary Lou. We'd been climbing together for almost a year, but always ended up in gyms on the weekend due to our work schedules....seemed like every outdoor trip I went on, Mary Lou was out of town or at an art fair selling her work.
Finally a couple weeks before I left it was 'now or never' for Mary Lou to come find out about climbing outdoors, and we got it together and camped and climbed on a beautiful sunny weekend in the Spring. Not a bad way to leave the midwest climbing scene. And for once, it wasn't even crowded at the Lake.... |
