Battle Creek Hike

Cari is visiting!!! we all went on a hike up battle creek and it was awesome, Lucas and Kaden had a blast and so did the rest of us.

IBex Trip

My friends and i went on a trip down a little south to a little place called IBex near delta to do a little rock climbing mom told me to put up a few pics from down there so here they are...

BJ's HOME!!!

BJ got home from his mission a week or 2 ago so here's the blog update even though you probably already know cus it's all over town. He went to the Texas San Antonio mission. Mom tried to hold back her emotions but in the attempt to hide she only showed more. I don't really know what else to say other than he has unlimited texting now so text him up eh. I can't put his number here but just ask mom or something and you can spam him all you want haha jk. Here are some pics of the airport scene. The poster was curtisy of Gavin

It may seem like the security man was enjoying being in this picture, but at the time he was having a hard time getting everyone to get out of the isle where people could walk through especially since that isle kept moving from one place to another depending on where the mass of mothers were charging (due to the 11 missionaries coming home).

Hansen's Mountaineering "Campus Challenge"

This is a route put up at a local climbing area called Hansen's Mountaineering. The route is called the campus challenge because it is called a campus when you don't use your legs, it is also a type of traverse, because in stead of going up you go across, or in this case, around. In the video it changes lighting before the last couple moves, yes, I did do the whole route, but not in the video. The camera only takes 16 seconds and I couldn't do it that fast so I had to splice them together. hopefully this will inspire the climber within' because climbing is awesome!! (really I just put this on here because mom told me to.)

Havasupii Trip

Almost anyone who was related in any way to a Tadje was in on this trip only a few chose to stay home and hold down the fort. It was a blast the hike down was pretty good (remembering that everything is relative, and this is definitely true when related to the hike out). Some of us chose to make it a bit more interesting by climbing a random boulder by the side of the trail, specifically Alex and I (Scott).





We got there, got our packs, set up base camp and were ready for water. We headed to havasu falls (the main falls) and quickly learned how cold the water was but we were strong and overcame it (or maybe we went numb... who knows). We jumped off boulders, swung from rope swings, and waded into the water. We didn't find the 30 ft cliff to jump off of till near the end of the trip due to the fact that it was directly behind the falls, but when we found it we made the most of it. We had to drag ourselves behind the falls with the wall because of the heavy current but just behind the fall there was a ledge to stand on then a ladder to climb up. It was at this point that we discovered that you could spit 'up' because of the insane wind current being generated by the falls crushing down just inches from us. We climbed the ladder (a very tall ladder whose actual height is only known by those who climbed it, but I'll stick with 30 ft), and at the top there is a little alcove to jump from. At first we (Darren and I) just jumped off but then we were shown up by an old geezer AKA my Dad whose insanity drove him to dive off. Whether insanity is contagious or we just couldn't stand to be shown up by someone 50+ years old we soon were diving as well. It was awesome.

We also made it down to Moony falls which is a bit more difficult to do. In order to descend you have to scale the canyon side placing Huge amounts of trust in rusty chains and old wood ladders, but in the end we got multiple 50+ year individuals down including mom, yeah! Here to our demise we found the rope swing that had such a rep, had been hacked off the tree and replaced with a lame makeshift one. There were rumors of another good one farther down the canyon but the only one that had enough energy to get down there was of course the insane Reed, my dad. Some of us tried to find it but didn't get down far enough.

We also made it to Navajo falls which is not as big as the others but was much wider. We explored the little cavern that was was part of it but no one got up enough courage/insanity to copy what a few others were doing which was climbing up a rope found on the right side and working there way up to a ledge just below the very top and throwing themselves off... maybe next time.

Just before we crossed the river to get to Navajo falls a scout told us about a little cave up a bit from there. Turns out it was full of stalactites, plus just before crossing the river to get there was a pretty good little ledge to jump off.

We also explored the abandoned quartzite cave (I think it was quartzite anyway) we found a large youth group there and went in with them. We went a couple of levels down using some rope but largely hands and knees.

The hike out was a grueling one but we all made it out safe and sound.

Scott's Swimming

Well when I asked Mom what we had done that would be worth putting up on the blog other than Havasupii she could only come up with my swimming so here it is.
This video is of my favorite stroke, the backstroke, In these 4 videos the lanes go 1-6 from left to right from the camera's view and in this one I am in lane 1 but this is probably obvious considering how it starts with just me in it, I only put the lane line info for the other three vid's.
I did well in this race, 1st, but jammed my finger twice into the lane line so got a 1:03 in stead of my best 1:01. Your not supposed to ride so close to the lane line unless there is a person in the next lane that you can drag off of but I was not really thinkin during this race. I still got first though haha.

This next video is of the 1st bit of my medly relay (we only got the backstroke part on video but we won by the way). The Medly relay goes back, butter, breast, then freestyle. I'm in lane 4, or the third closest to the camera then in five there is the other PG relay, then in 6 the lame spanish fork relay which lost to both the A and the B PG relay (yeah!!!).

This race was the 100 Yard Breastroke which is sort of a filler because I'm not too good at it. I'm in lane 6 and a fast kid on our team for breastroke is in lane 4. I still got second but mainly just because I can get off the walls fast and have a good start, so I catch up a bit a each wall but lose ground in the middle. Plus if you look closely I was still a bit tired from the backstroke that was a little bit earlier because I held out my glide much longer than most to save energy.

This final one is the 50 yard butterfly which is not a real race in most swimming places but since butterfly is the most tiring race they figured they'd give us a break and cut the usual 100 yard butterfly in half. I came in a very close second in this race, I was in lane 3 and another PG kid was in lane 1 (he usually beats me but this race was the first individual one of the day so i still had energy and i was only a teency bit ahead). Once again it looked good at the start because my dives are decent but lost ground in the stroke. Lane two was sadly a Spanish Forkian, oh well we'll beat em' next time.

The footage may not be as good as they have in the Olympic trials (going on right now!!! watch it) but considering it was all taken by a picture camera it's finaminal, GO MOM!!

Really though, go watch the swimming trials or check out the online already done stuff at http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/index.html and search by swimming, it's all amazing.

Great Story/Learning Experience

So some friends of mine and I went down to Cedar City to do some climbing and for JD and Craig's (fore mentioned friends) Polo tournament on Friday/Saturday. We left Thursday morning and made record down to Cedar. Upon arrival we left civilization and took to the hills. I was driving my little 3'' clearance mercury Sable but JD's guidebook said that a high clearance vehicle was not required. We got off onto a dirt road that started OK and got steadily more ruff. At one point I should have turned around but to my bank account's dismay I did not. Soon I told JD and Craig to get out and guide more or less to lessen the weight in the car for the extra .0005'' but oh well it was a good thing because shortly after they began guiding JD noticed a trail of dripping behind the car. I got out and smelt it, turned out it was gasoline and my tank was punctured. We tried shoving numerous things into it like sticks and small rocks but nothing would stay, it was very small but there was a hairline crack about an inch long that made it so even a well stuck stick would not help. Inspiration hit me GUM! and gum it was that held enough gas in the tank for the trip back to civilization and thats just the beginning. When we got the estimate for the car we were in trouble 300 was more than all three of us combined had on us but luckily there was a Zions Bank right next door the mechanic. After removing everything from my account down to $0.00 (not to mention a very strange look from the bank lady - probably due to my gasoline smell and very dirty look) we found that we had just enough money to get the car fixed and filled up just enough to get home. We then learned the city quite well because we had nothing else to do other than roam toting our sleeping bags in our hand and as much food and supplies we could get out of the car and stuff into our small backpacks before we left it in the hands of the mechanic (food was not large in quantity/quality because we had planned to buy sandwich makings while down there). Our first order of business in our roaming was to find a place to spend the night. Luckily just about 6 blocks down and over the free way was a well fenced in church with a pavilion. We knew that you are not supposed to stay in church parking lots and such but we figured if anyone stopped us we'd ask if we could stay with them. Next we looked for the pool in which they would play in their tournament the next night (Friday) and we would be saved with food and a place to stay. It was not hard to find because we had been down there twice before for swim meets and knew its general area. We stayed out sorta late so we would not be seen coming into the pavilion at the church, laid out our sleeping bags and slept (sorta cold due to the concrete slabs we slept on's ability to hold its cold temperature under us). In the morning I went to check on the car only to find out that the tires that we thought about replacing before the trip needed replacing NOW. To make the long story short (too late) I had to call Mom and Dad and get their credit card over the phone for the tires which they were going to pay for anyway but only did the front two before the trip. Anyway we stayed with the water polo team that night at a competitors home who happened to be a farmer so we had fresh from the cow chilled milk (not bad actually) and a great breakfast unlike the morning before of a couple nutrigrain bars). In the end we did make it home.

Scott's Climbing Competition

These are some pictures (courtesy of Christy, Jared and Gavin) of me at the Climbing competition I went to on March 1st. It was loads of fun.

• A few points on Climbing-
• This type of climbing (without a rope) is called bouldering.
• All the tape marks the route that you take to get to the top, you can only use the holds (Little colored rock shaped things with tape coming off of them) that have the same color tape to get up to the top. Note: This includes foot holds, some think that you can use any holds to place your feet but the tape still applies.
• Using the textured wall as a foot hold to help get up is called smearing.
• Any features on the wall (not holds) that may be used to get to the top are called Arete features. Like an indent in the wall just jutting enough to get the tip of your toe on and push up.
  
• You start will all limbs off the ground and finish by 'Topping out." this is done by holding the top edge of the wall.
• Spotting is when a person on the ground basically holds out there hands to make sure that if you fall you fall forward and not on your side or head, basically anything to get you to land less horizontal and more vertical with head up. It is encouraged but not required when indoors because you can't get hurt too bad. (I did have a pretty bad experience with this and fell from the top of this indoor bouldering room perfectly horizontal, it knocked the wind out of me especially since I was wearing a belt with a large metal front piece, needless to say I now wear a fabric belt now.)
• A Dino is a move in a climb in which you jump from one position in order to reach the next hold if you 'stick' it you basically hold it while you hang from it because you left the wall entirely for a second in order to do the Dino.
• To Campus is to make a move using only arms, my friends and I call it 'Beast Mastering" we have a little competition to see who can do it best, I currently hold second of five Beast Masters.
• It is rated from easiest to hardest by V0, V1, V2,...V(big #'s) I have only gotten one v5 and usually climb v4's.
  

• Normal Climbing (with a rope) includes but is probably not limited to:
• Top rope- rope is pre 'set' at top of route so all you need is someone to belay you as you climb so if you fall your weight is supported by the rope strung around the top and held at the bottom by the belayer.
• Sport Climbing or Lead Climbing is when you take the rope up with you and hook it into preplaced attachments along the route.
• Traditional or "Trad" climbing is when you place your own attachments into cracks in the wall and set your rope in them.
• All of these are rated from 5.6, 5.7, 5.8, 5.9, 5.10a, 5.10b, 5.10c, 5.10d... it goes a through d on 5.10, 11, 12, 13, 14, and so on up. I have gotten a few 5.11c's.
  

This was probably my favorite climb next to the orange one below it because it had some really fun moves.

This was a fun and hard climb especially when my feet came off for a minute in the third picture down, luckily the right hand hold was really good.

I did finish this climb just didn't get a picture because the photographers were busy cheering me on.
Thanks guys.