Sorry about the delay in posting a new challenge. The winner of the last challenge was Kat Holbrook and Sarah Wong as well as coach Ty and Angie Miske, mother of Base Camp member Dallin. Thanks for being diligent about answering the questions!

As I said in the email I sent out earlier, this week's challenge is mandatory for anyone planning to go on the Indian Creek climbing trip. Oh no! Mandatory! Parents, please feel free to help with this assignment.

1. Explain the "Indian Creek Recreation Plan"
2. Why is it important?
3. What can we as climbers do to help preserve access to areas like Indian Creek for future generations?

Write at least 3 paragraphs and bring them to practice with you before March 27.

So far, Sarah W. is the closest to earning her reward with 2 Weekly Challenges completed. Kat, Katie S., and Ellise S. have all completed 1 challenge on their way to 5. Keep up the good work guys!

Nikhil Kolluri

Nik is almost 9 years old and is in 3rd grade at Sunrise Elementary school. He loves to eat beef fajitas and drink orange cream soda. Nik has one brother named Akaash who is 4 years old.

Nik joined the Base Camp Climbing Team at the beginning of December. He prefers bouldering over sport climbing and is really looking forward to climbing in Big Cottonwood Canyon this summer.

Besides rock climbing, Nik likes to hang with his friends, particularly Dylan. Of all the holidays, Nik like to celebrate his own birthday the best. When he needs some down time, Nik likes to watch "Man versus Food" or listen to music by "Queen". The person he most looks up to is his dad.

The pets in Nik's household are a bearded dragon named "Nibbles" and a dog named "Bizkit".

Someday, Nik would like to go on vacation to Mexico. If he had a million dollars, Nik would invest some of it so it could make him more money and he would use the rest to buy a really fancy house. Since he wants to be an architect when he grows up, maybe Nik could design his really fancy house. Then he could have a really fancy bouldering wall built in it.

Congratulations Nik! Thanks for being such a wonderful member of the Base Camp team of Team Momentum.

Congratulations Sarah W.!

Sarah was the only one last week whose answer to the Weekly Challenge I received. The answer to last week's question is:

Skyler Weekes holds the world-dyno-record at 8.69 feet.
In October 2008, he almost tied his record with an 8.5-foot dyno in Clear Creek Canyon, Colorado.
It took Skyler 76 days to finally send this project.

That's a lot of dyno!

This week's challenge:

Spend enough time in climbing and you may hear the phrase "before sticky rubber". What is "sticky rubber", and how did it change rock climbing? When did it first arrive in the US and through which shoe company was it distributed? Who was the high-profile American rock climber that helped make the first "sticky rubber" shoes famous?