We’re finally starting to take advantage of the awesome wordpress feature that allows us to have pages on our site in addition to the blog. Our first addition is the new Favorite Routes page. On it, we each have a list of ten of our favorite routes and a brief explanation of why it’s so [...]
Oct 292008
“Nervous?” Lizzy asked at the belay below the crux pitch. A whirl of thoughts flew through my head. I was distanced from my objective, an onsight of cloud tower, and was not feeling the stress. A little less that a year earlier Lizzy and I had climbed Levitation 29. On that route I had struggled [...]
Oct 232008
Today, I mailed my first ever vote for a presidential election, along with a variety of other Washington elections including an initiative to help reduce traffic (we really need some of that…). Yes, I was one of those unfortunate people who was not old enough to vote in the 2004 election. Because I was still [...]
Oct 212008
When I moved to California I bought a Trek road bike and often ride to work. I am no cylcist, I dont have the endurance for 100 mile rides or steep climbs but I still put miles on my bike. I love getting out of work and having the cool breeze on my face as [...]
Oct 202008
The fall has quickly come and its gaining momentum faster that we can imagine. The stacks of three day climbing weekends have been amazing and this blog has surely been neglected. I have to pack all my work in to a four day week and then we are off on some crazy adventure every weekend. [...]
Oct 162008
Oct 162008
If you are one of the few who actually follows our blog, you may have noticed that there has been a slowdown in posting recently, especially on my part. It’s not that we haven’t been climbing (we have, this coming weekend will be our 3rd 3-day climbing weekend in a row) but that somehow life [...]
With the fall season in mind Lizzy and I took the weekend for a bit of a climbing tune-up. This weekend the goal was to climb a lot but do nothing too hard, use no trad gear and simply focus on endurance. Lizzy often solves climbs with her balance and technique and I try to [...]
Who am I? What makes me a climber? What does being a climber mean to me? Climbing is a large part of my life and it impacts my actions, my thoughts and my dreams. Beyond the flow of movement over rock I am intrigued by the history of this sport. The characters of previous generations [...]
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