This is a little example of the decent. It was loose rock for about the first 1500 ft. A little sketchy when you are already tired. FYI Most moutaineering and climbing accidents happen on the decent because of fatigue. Your mind and body start to relax.

I am so grateful for this experience. It tests so many parts of you mentally, physically and even spiritually. It helps you build faith and trust in the people you climb with. It teaches you how the body can endure so much, yet is so frail. Being in nature like that shows you how completely loving and amazing our Father in Heaven is to allow us to play in his wonderful creations. This was a very big accomplishment personally for me as a climber. PS if any of you would like to learn I love teaching. :)

Josh and me at the summit. Ps the sun was blinding me. We look really hot. The gear gets to be a little heavy.

Here are my tired boys at the summit. It is now 6:30pm. We climbed for 12 hours straight. Now we have a 3 hour decent.

Here is a picture of Jeff leaning out from the wall so I could get a pic of him and the view. We are about 650 ft from the top of the route. Pay attention to the dry creek bed. It is getting smaller and smaller.

Here is a shot from about half way up the route. This picture is a pour attempt at capturing the view, height, vertical angle at which we are climbing. The right side of this picture captures a little bit of the vertical wall we are climbing. I wish every person could feel the emotions and absolute sensory overload you feel at this point. Adrenaline, wind, you see birds flying below you. You feel so tired, yet completely energized at the same time. Your muscles ache yet you seem to get a little more from them each pitch. There are times when you think, "I just want to be done, but it is 1000 ft to decend and 1000 feet to climb." There are other thoughts like "I can conquer anything."

Here is an example of a pre-hung bolt that creates a belay station for climbing parties. There are usually two or three bolts to back yourself up on just in case one bolt happens to fail.

This is the hardest part of the climb. "THE CHIMNEYS" the technique of climbing them is to wedge your body and create enough friction that you don't slide or fall back down. Most people stay out on the face or front of the rock till they just can't anymore. You can kind of see the upper person in the grey is now about to get into the chimney. There are approx 400 ft of chimney climbing. Yuck!! Yes, i cussed a few times.

Here are Josh, Jeff and my feet at the top of the second pitch. If you pay close attention to the bottom right corner of the picture you will see a cluster of bolders that is the canyon floor. The wall on the opposite side of the canyon is approx 280 ft tall. To kind of give you a perspective.

Here is my update. I am sure no one is tuning in anymore. I don't blame you

Here are the men in my life that I have shared many climbing adventures with. Ryan Cannon and Jeff Osguthorpe. My husband is taking the picture. The four of us took on this adventure together.

We left SLC at 10:15pm after Jeff's flight from Detriot was delayed 4 hours. We drove all night to Vegas. We arrived in Vegas at 4:00am. We started our 3 mile hike to the base of the route and arrived approx 6:15am. We are suiting up in this picture. We started to climb about 6:30am. The trick to "big wall" climbing is to start at dawn hoping to miss afternoon storms.

Epinepherine 2000 feet of Beautiful Climbing

this shot is from the bottom looking up. You cant see approx 1500 feet of it.

IT WAS BIG!!!

IT'S TIME FOR ANOTHER YEARLY UPDATE. HEE HEE

Well everybody life has been crazy in the Cowley/Brock households.

Josh's brother and sister-in-law had their 4th and final baby. She had some very serious complications so they took her baby making machine out. She is OK with it. He was 6lbs 2 oz. Cute baby. After her 3 1/2 month bed rest and 1 month and 1 week in the hospital they finally got to home to Idaho.

During her final week in the hospital I got a call from Josh telling me that my step dad was in the hospital with sever chest pains. After 8 days and 4 stints he is out and feeling OK but very weak.

One day after Howard got out of the hospital Troy my 15 year old (David Beckham) soccer nephew got hit hard during one of his soccer games, fell onto his back and was temporarily paralyzed with what they call a spinal concussion. He was life flighted to the hospital in Texas where he spent 4 long days. He is doing well yet recovering.

And the last and final trial we had this month was my little 97 year old grandpa died. He was so cute and confused. It was a blessing because as he said to me last time we spoke "Don't get old! It isn't a very fun time of your life." So I am so happy to know he is partying it up with the rest of my family that have already arrived in that place we Mormon's call "paradise." His funeral is on wed. the 14th of November so we are taking a trip to California.

I almost had one more trial to deal with. The only reason I am bringing it up is because I think it is kind of an amazing cool story to tell. And it is only amazing and cool because it ended up OK. If it had not it would have been a tragedy. One of my climbing partners is a also skydives. She was doing her last jump of the day and everything was going well. They started their free fall at 13,000 ft. That equates to about a 60 second free fall and a 5-10 minute float down. As she reached her deploying altitude she pulled her rip chord.er shoot opened fine except a couple of twists in the lines that weren't a huge concern to her. She had seen them happen before. She said what happened next is still a huge question in her mind. The canopy started to do a downward angled flat spin. Which causes a lot of G force and disorientation. She knew she couldn't recover the flat spin and that she would have to "cut away" a term meaning detach the original shoot.She would then go back into free fall and have to deploy the reserve shoot. As she was trying to cut away she found the force almost too strong to actually detach the shoot. She finally got it to release then she went back into free fall. It is something you have to anticipate. Back in free fall she panicked because the sweat shirt she wore was in the way of finding the rip cord release for the reserve shoot. Now her altimeter gauge is giving it's audible alarm telling her she is in the "you must pull now" zone. In skydiving you usually pull between 7,000-5,000 ft. She found the cord,finally,but the G force and her body position were hard enough that she was now having a hard time actually having enough force to pull. She said she remembers thinking "if you don't pull this now you are dying in 3 seconds." She said she pulled one last time and her reserve came out. It came out with such force it tore the muscle fibers in her chest. She pulled the shoot at 1,000 ft. and had 700 hundred feet left to float down to the ground. She spent the next 3 hours crying.

It's interesting the things we do. I took her husband, who by the way is a skydiving instructor, rock climbing. He told me that rock climbing is a crazy mans sport. He told me I needed to start skydiving. He believes it is much safer. He told me I was crazy to be so in love with the sport. But I love it so much. Any time anyone wants to go or learn let me know.

all in all we have been good. We had a fun Halloween. We went to a party of one of my favorite friends Ryan Cannon. We danced and had a great time. We also helped Brandon and Melanie Lake with a family Halloween party. We all dressed up as celebrates. Josh and i were the Red Carpet interviewers. It was fun.

Work is going well.Josh is helping people with the stress of buying and selling homes. He is really good at what he does. So if any of you need help or have any questions let us know. We are more than willing to help out friends or friends of friends.

As for me and work I still do random stuff that is not all that interesting. If you really want to know you have to call me. I like talking more than blogging. I blog strictly for Julia. Love you jul's.

I hope all is well for everyong out there. I love you all. I might not update my blog or comment too much but i do read them. Be cool!

1st pic is brandon and melanie lake

2nd pic is oprah and camera man josh and heather

3rd pic is my nephews tyler and troy. troy is on the right he is the one that got hurt.

4th pic me and my grandpa two years ago

5th pic our kids

6th pic jace and felicia and their hair

7th pic is tiff my friend who almost crash into the ground. this pic was taken after she and i got completely drenched in a freak storm.

8th pic is new little Kaleb. 6 lbs 3 oz

and if anyone wants to help me learn how the intermingle the words and pics i would love it.

I finally updated it due to complaints. Ole St. Louie

We had a great time in St. Louis with Kimra, Jamin, Staci and Dave. I agree with Staci (refer to her blog) that one of the greatest experiences we ever had in our 16 years as friends was the "Sunset on the Mississippi." I really bonded with her.
Poor Josh got bit by freakn chiggers that same night. His poor feet. I love this man. But he was feeling a lot better at his bff's wedding.

Now we are back home kickin some trash in the real estate world. Ok not so much trash but we are doing ok. I am finally getting some of my wedding pics back it only has been one year. When I get them I will post a few for your viewing entertainment. Till then love you all.

Just to intro

Hello whoever,

I am officially a blogger. I heard that Kimra was doing it a long time ago. It wasn't till Staci joined the fun that it really interested me. I found some very old friends I would love to get reacquainted with. It has been fun to see your lives.

My life is a pretty simple one. I am married. Yes, I took the plunge. His his name is Josh Brock. We are working together doing real estate. It has been a great learning experience. We work for Remax Associates. I do some part time work on the side. I am an Aesthetician. I do facials, peels, microdermabraision, laser hair removal, resurfacing, and photo facials. I do that 6 days a month. I also work 8 hours a week at the local climbing gym cafe. I am too cheap to pay to climb and do yoga.

As for our personal life. You can see from above that we love to play. The first picture is taken at Red Rocks in Las Vegas I am climbing a 1500 ft route with my buddy Kyle from South Carolina. The second picture is Josh an myself on a climbing trip to City of Rocks in Idaho. The third picture is Josh Climbig with our buddy Ryan in Bells Canyon. The 4th picture is of Jill Horton (Liljenquist) and Josh in a slot canyon called Pine Creek in Zions National Park. This was Jill and Devin's first canyoneering experience. The last picture is of Jill on the last rappel in Pine Creek. It is 120 ft. free hanging rappel. She loved it. We had a great time. Life is so beautiful.