Long time no speaky. lets see ( Read more... )

so its gotten really cold again. this whole warm t-shirt weather followed by frigid arctic blasts has caused me to get sick, for the first time since like last winter i think. ughhh. for like all of today ive had that feeling where you want to sneeze but you just cant. your just like right on the verge but cant get it out and over with. so thats ( Read more... )

So its been a while since I've visited these parts (this song has put me in a really western mood). So let's see what's been going on ( Read more... )

my neck has been really sore the past few days. sunday i could barel ymove it without pain. but its getting better. either caused by climbing or my bed. lab tests are still inconclusive ( Read more... )

so i ordered a grigri and it came today. for those of you who dont spend your lives studying climbing gear, its basically just a belay device that locks the rope off automatically when the rope is pulled. heres a pic ( Read more... )

this week has been miserable. i worked nonstop from 1pm tues till 10 tonight with only breaks for classes and sleep and one two hour break wed night for climbing. but now its all good. anyway, last night i had one of the strangest dreams ive had in a while. a lot of it has faded by now but ill try and summarize what i remember ( Read more... )

funny story. i was climbing tonight, doing one of the hardest problems ive ever worked on. (its a 5.12b so im reaching my resolution to climb a 12 slowly). anyway, i fell off it as is usual and when i hit the ground i had this blinding pain on my right big toe. the weird thing is i have no idea how i did it. I didnt think it hit anything as i fell ( Read more... )

so im now an official wall monitor yey. i got all the sat shifts yey ( Read more... )

So today was climbing class #2. It went really well i thought. after the first class i was pretty unsure and skeptical about the classes abilities. A lot of them seemed to have trouble with the most basic problem in the gym. But for today's class we started really teaching technique. I put up a couple problems which used the techniques we were ( Read more... )

It seems Im quite good at making up boulder problems. Im pretty much making a new one every time i go to the gym, which equates to about 4 a week. Which is like 4x as many as the other staff people usually put up. And its not like theyre borning or lame or repetitive. Each one is a new and interesting challenge. Itll be fun to see how long i can ( Read more... )