Life has been going full steam ahead as Lizzy approaches graduation and the summer climbing season kicks into effect. We spent last weekend clipping bolts at altitude outside of Las Vegas at Mount Charleston and celebrating our anniversary by going to see Phantom of the Opera. After a successful beta request for free climbing Sheer Lunacy we went to [...]
Last weekend, Luke and I ran the Malibu Creek 22k. This was my 2nd trail race ever, my 1st race of this length (half marathon plus a little extra), and my substitute birthday challenge, since my fitness was nowhere near what it needed to be to climb 21 routes in a day at Indian Creek. [...]
Along the lines of Kate’s Post about the past I thought it would be fun to put some old photos online from my semester abroad in Australia. While I was studying at the University of Melbourne I was a member of the Melbourne Uni Mountaineering Club and through this club I was able to find climbing partners, arrange rides, [...]
So! We are having a little contest. The prize is an XL black Super Topo T-Shirt that says “Climb more, epic less”. If you’re like me and an XL t-shirt is WAY too big, I’m sure you could find a use for it – give it to a friend as a gift, make an awesome [...]
Josh on Lumberjack Low After watching a video Jamie Emerson posted I was reminded that I had some how failed to post the above picture of Josh trying the same problem. I love this shot and it really shows the crazy sandstone texture of Joe’s Valley. Luke sets up the drop knee with his eye [...]
Lizzy and I had a short and fairly fun weekend a J-Tree. The main result was a lot of soreness on Lizzy and my part. I wanted to climb More Monkey than Funky in addition to a bunch of other classics on my ticklist. It seemed best to work from the hardest down and so after [...]
We had a bit of rain on Friday night that sent everyone to be early and luckily we awoke to clear skies in the morning. It had not rained much during the night and we hoped to get some climbing in. Our inital plan was to drive to Ibex if we had woken up to [...]
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