Trade show salt lake city

We went to the trade show (Outdoor Retailer) last weekend thanks to our good friend Rick who still has one of the best stocked stores(Shawnee Trails. Was really psyched to go check out all the new gear, see all the climbing celebs, watch the most impressive freestyle slacklining, drink the best OG ales ( free!) and look for some good gear deals. Most of the gear and stuff wasn't for sale, it was like going to a strip club cause you couldn't take anything home with ya. We got a sick deal on a rope and I had no complaints about all the free beer. We were bummed that the bouldering comp was canceled, we were definitely looking forward to that. Saturday we went to maple canyon and got a good pump on, way more psyched on that area than I had been before, it's so much fun. Sunday I went Back to the OR show to hunt out some deals, and found a bunch of good things about half the price so I was psyched. Monday we met up with Alexis Silk (Cdale friend) and took her to maple canyon, really starting to dig that chose pile (the rock is actually very soild even though it doesn't look that way. Got on this rad super long cobble crimp pulling marathon called "SpaceLord" can't wait to go back and try it again. Maple is a little over an hour, it's high altitude so even when it's 90 out it still gets cold in the shade. We have about 7 more weeks here in Salt Lake and could definitely see us coming back for the summer climbing, we havent even scratched the surface of all the climbing. Well that's enough blaming for now, I will have some pics on this blog soon, just gotta get a computer first