2008 Woodie Awards
It was sunny and hot (nearly 85 degrees) on Saturday afternoon; nevertheless, dozens of climbers peppered the cliff face at the south end of Ross Park in Pocatello. They came from Salt Lake, Boise, Bozeman, and eastern Idaho for the longest running rock climbing competition in the nation-The Pocatello Pump.
At 2pm on Saturday the annual fundraiser for the Cooperative Wilderness Handicap Outdoor Group (CW HOG) had not yet begun, but twenty or more volunteers were continuing the preparations that others, including the ISU basketball team, had begun early that morning.