> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://blog.novaugust.net/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Flagstaff - URL: https://blog.novaugust.net/flagstaff/ - Published: 2017-05-05T07:01:29.000Z - Updated: 2017-05-08T02:46:18.000Z - Author: Matt Enlow - Tags: Climbing, @bshrive, post, Flagstaff, @megsmegge, Limekiln Canyon, @mismollz, Arizona, @robojoy, Arizona Strip, @scott.countryman.14, The Peaks, @steele, @toddedwardschultz, #Import 2026-06-21 14:43 Life sped up a month ago. I closed up my trip to Indian Creek and immediately moved to Flagstaff, Az., tripled my hours-per-week, and within not much time at all started seeing a lady. All that while continuing to do my best to prioritize outdoors times means I have to cut hours from something, and so: *truncated* stories of my month (thus far) in Flagstaff. ### Supercrack Tower The adventurous towers were one of the things that [pulled me to Flagstaff in the first place](https://blog.novaugust.net/sedonas-towers/). After a grueling first week working out of my office (yes, I have so much work I got an office) Megan and I got out to do the **The Window Route** up Supercrack Tower, named for a huge "window" looking through the stone. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2017/05/P3510671.jpg) ### Downtown Flag My van lives at various places around town (Bob's house, Megan's house, Molly's house, Steele's house) and good ol' *ninjin-kun* gets me around downtown's one-way streets. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2017/05/DSC00027.jpg) ### Pro Bikerguy Scott One of Megan's roommates had a very complimentary sense of humor to mine, and was down with repeating hard technical sections of a hike-up downhill track over and over for my camera (and maybe, hopefully, his sponsors). So we did that one morning. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2017/05/DSC00088.jpg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2017/05/DSC00638-1.jpg) ### The Waterfall Rob Joyce, a gyps, (re-)connected me with an old UW college buddy of his who had just moved to Flagstaff at the same time as I did. Bob joined Steele and I for a late afternoon at The Waterfall, Flagstaff's other [Enlow-seducing crag](https://blog.novaugust.net/the-waterfall/). ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2017/05/DSC00785.jpg) That was actually the same day that I woke up early to shoot Scott. I slept soundly that night. ### The NoroPeaks Megan and I took our draws for a walk up to the nearest sport climbing crag, The Peaks. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2017/05/DSC00891.jpg) We went home early due to an upset stomach (it wasn't mine). ### Juniper The next day Megan went to the hospital - to work. We walked June to the edge of the national forest, and then as far as the ER doors. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2017/05/DSC00946-1.jpg) I would wake up at three A.M. and toss and turn in bed with an ever-tightening stomach until six. I would barely manage to slide the van door open in time to deliver my dinner unto the lawn. Two days passed in a state assuaged more by drugs than hugs. Only after my body had conquered the norovirus's symptoms did I discover that it is spread via feces and vomit. Lovely. ### Bob's Dinner parties happen at Bob's place. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2017/05/DSC00987.jpg) (In fact, I'm finishing this post after a delish pizza party there) At the first of these parties, the last light of the day pulled me out of the kitchen. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2017/05/DSC00996.jpg) I begged Molly to ride her bike around just so I'd have something to shoot. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2017/05/DSC00968.jpg) ### The Little Colorado River Confluence There is a man who works out of the same space as me named Todd. Todd is a very nice man. When he found out I had *just* moved to town, and primarily for climbing, he tried to set me up with his climber friends. A week or two later he went so far as to invite me out on one of his adventure runs (after assuring me it *definitely* would not be a run.) So, I went into the Grand Canyon for the first time - along with seven ultrarunners. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2017/05/DSC01185.jpg) ### Jacks Canyon Wade and Alicia drove down to Arizona and pulled me along to Jack's Canyon, where I experienced the bliss of limestone sport climbing for the first time since I had left Wyoming. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2017/05/DSC01335.jpg) ### Road Trip Speaking of limestone sport climbing, Megan and I got out of NorAz for a bit, hitting Limekiln and St. George. Her dog - asleep on the bed - and the high desert were our two constant companions. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2017/05/DSC01754.jpg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2017/05/DSC01981.jpg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2017/05/DSC01985-2.jpg) ### Shooting at the Peaks Directly after my four days on with Megan, I had the opportunity for a fifth with Steele back at the Peaks. Instead, I did nothing but belay and jug, and was quite content with my decision. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2017/05/DSC02124.jpg)