Day after Neverland

A full 24 hours after we got back into Davins jeep and headed back towards Laramie I find myself sitting in my living room thinking of all the possible routes on the very small section of rock we saw in the 7 hour period of hiking, cleaning and climbing we did. Mike Hafner, Davin Bagdonas and Brian, Davins friend from Colorado, all went out for a good session in what was supposed to be a perfect Wyoming day. 45 degree weather with no clouds and low wind speeds was the report we'd been seeing for about a week, it seemed believable even until we hit the canyon, solid winds blowing from 25-30 with gusts around 50+mph met us head on once we passed the Laramie Peak Wildlife Management Area until the turnoff for Neverland. The first sector we went to had been burnt up by a fire in the past and left the rock pretty crumbly in certain spots so a lot of the rock wasn't worth our time but we did find a few good warm up prows and a rad little 45-55degree overhang along with a few highballs that had gorgeous lines but snow pack on the landings, they won't be going anywhere so we didn't worry about them very much. After some cleaning and first ascents we decided that we would go climb on high quality gneiss even with the average Wyoming winds blowing our pads around. Even though the conditions weren't perfect, I had a perfect day with cleaning my first ever problem and doing my first ever first ascent, it was a fairly easy prow on chunky granite, pretty nice left hand side pull rail with some right hand rounded knobs up to a high left vertical 3 finger slot to a chunky top out. Left me motivated for the whole day. Once we had gone over the hill into the snowflake sector we went right to a large overhanging gneiss boulder that Mike and Davin had found the week before but didn't do any cleaning or anything until yesterday. After Mike, Davin and I did some serious cleaning on 3 different lines and some help from Brian after he had scouted around the area we started working on a right line that had a fairly hard crux 2 moves in. It eluded me due to my height and strength not being up to par with everyone else, but the other 3 guys got it. That's ok though gives me something to work on for the next time. After a few hours under that rock we had all got pretty cold and after trying to send a decent traverse and coming around to the mantle and seeing my hands grabbing holds but not being able to feel anything I decided it was enough for me as well. For now I will be left with my thoughts of Neverland until possibly this Friday weather depending. For now back to plastic and training during the week.