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I'd like to introduce Craig Gorder. He's going to tell you about

his personal experience in the Bridger Jacks and to give you a geographical concept of where those are located, head to Utah and then make

your way down the beautiful unwindy 191.

This is where you can find the stunning towers that make up the Bridger Jacks.

Welcome to the show Craig to tell us what happened.

So it was November 14th, in the fall 2016. My partner and I were going out my partner

Kelsey we were going out to climb all the Bridger Jacks in a day because it was it was supposed to be a

full moon that night so we knew we'd probably climb in the dark but we were

excited about that and we had actually never been off the ground together we

had just met that month in the creek, but she's super

experience and I guess I have a pretty good reading on folks and you can tell kind of what their level of

experiences on the rock and how they act and

whatnot. So we weren't super stressed about it because both of us have done quite a bit of

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