So, it turns out that Jen and I have lost a lot of fitness since Yosemite. We have barely been climbing, and we have definitely not been climbing anything steep. We came to Zion with a few rather ambitious (for us) goals and ended up doing none of them.
Instead, we spent a few days climbing generally steep, often wide, and sometimes chossy cracks throughout the canyon. These included a short tower that we had always wondered about, a 5.11c finger crack with enough features to let technique make up for lack of strength, and a five-pitch wide route that Jen could not complete years ago, but was able to send on this trip. Plus, we rode a couple days with Murphy to get him exercised and saw some pretty baller sunsets.
