It was tough to get up early, so we got a fashionably late start and headed to High on Boulder & Moonrise at the end of the South Fork road. Since it was President's Day, I figured the place would be a zoo, and was worried abour late start - surprisingly, we were the only ones there. We could see the climbs from the car, and the approach went by pretty quickly - something that we should have enjoyed more at the time, in retrospect, because it was priceless when compared to the approaches we had to do in the following days.

Karen took us up to the first ledge getting a feel for the ice, and I launched up Moonrise, eager to climb something already. The ice was pretty good and provided me with plenty entertainment. I belayed from a tree and enjoyed the views of the river valley, which really reminded me of the Ghost river in Canada (one of my favourite places in the world). I dragged my SLR up and took some pics of the valley with a big smile on my face.

That night, we went to Aaron's store, and got some beta about One Arm Bandit and Ovisight which got us excited for the next days.

		Hostile Takeover seen in the lower left.	Pondering where to cross the frozen river

	Nervously preparing to cross the river for the first time :)

	Up the drainage we go		High on Boulder (WI 4, left) and Moonrise (WI 5, right), first two pitches

		Karen starting up the first pitch	Yours truly, starting up Moonrise

		Belaying on top of the crux pitch on Moonrise	Chilling out at the belay

	On the last pitch of Moonrise	An art print in a window on main street :) Sadly the bears were asleep...