For spring break this year we deviated from plugging gear at Indian Creek and decided to get pumped silly. A hearty helping of sport climbing was in order, so we flew east for a week of clipping bolts. There are few places that I’ve been to that rival the sport climbing of the Red River [...]
It’s well past bed time but our kitten is still awake. Swatting paws, loud purring, and then three pounds of furry love pouncing on my stomach. I don’t mind too much since I can’t sleep either. My mind is playing back a mix of memory and emotions. I can see the rock, the holds. I [...]
I slip on the ice for the third time in as many feet. I can see my breath and there is snow everywhere. The valley floor, in Yosemite, is covered in a foot of frozen water (snow). Why am I here? At the end of 2009, I left the land of eternal sunshine (San Diego) [...]
The Fundraiser was a success. A total of $12,656 was raised and $10,000 was matched by Planet Granite. Thanks to those who donated and those that came to the slideshow/auction! Access for climbing is one of the things that I used to take for granted. I naively thought that access was not my problem and [...]
When planning our Spring Break climbing trip to Trout Creek and Smith Rock in Oregon, we didn’t anticipate becoming Team Gimp + Lizzy. We also didn’t plan on repeatedly epic-ing on the ~48 hours surrounding our planned departure and initial climbing day in Oregon. But what climbing trip really goes exactly as it’s planned? So [...]
It happened. We graduated and packed up the Rav to head down to Smith Rock out near Terrebonne, Oregon. I hadn’t been in almost 5 years (since the summer after my junior year in high school) and was stoked to go back and lead some of the routes that fired my initial love of rock [...]
Surprisingly enough, Luke and I seem to be in similar places with our climbing right now. Neither of us is really climbing as hard as we could because we are limiting ourselves by what we think we can do and what we think is safe. Although it can be frustrating to be in this position, [...]
With temperatures blazing in the 100s in the SoCal area last weekend, we headed out to Mt. Charleston, just north of Las Vegas, to beat the heat. Mt. Charleston rises above the glitz and garbage of the strip to over 10,000ft elevation – a tree-shaded, snow-covered (for part of the year) alpine oasis amid the [...]
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