Thanks to Phil’s shoulder surgery last Friday I’m left scrounging for belays at the Tor. Which would have ruined my week had Micah not manned up for the occasion. So, it was me and the vegeta-bro keeping the funk alive at Santa Maria on Saturday. Things were good. The weather was a touch warm for… Continue reading and then there was one
Tag: crankenstein climbing
Like lifting weights in the woods.
first wood
Campusing is rad. It’s so rad I got up at 5:30 this morning to do it before work. My right elbow is still bothering me a bit so I just did hangs, no moves. And I noticed big moves give my elbow more pain or, I should say, I noticed while hanging that the further… Continue reading first wood
shouldn’t have left you
The Tor doesn’t handle rejection well. She knows I was at Joshua Tree two weekends ago then at Pine Mountain last weekend. She doesn’t care where I was, just that I wasn’t with her. After two weeks away I had to deal with her wrath on Saturday. I felt stronger. Honestly, all the moves felt… Continue reading shouldn’t have left you
pronator teres
What I thought might be a serious chronic elbow injury turns out to be not so bad according to my favorite sports therapist, Kevin Brown of Elite Performance and Rehabilitation here in Goleta, CA. I had diagnosed myself (a fool for a patient) with medial epicondylitis several years ago and intermittently since, due most likely… Continue reading pronator teres
Pine Mountain, so divine.
“Let me lay it on the line, I’ve got two on the vine. Two sets of testicles, so divine.” – George Washington rap Anyways, I went to Pine Mountain last weekend. Rad. You know how occasionally there’s this one boulder problem you love for whatever reason. Sometimes no one else even likes it. But there’s… Continue reading Pine Mountain, so divine.
video of Adam Ondra sending Action Directe
Adam Ondra – Action Directe 11 (+video)euroclimbing.com – May 23, 2008kinda rad photos, super rad video at the bottom crankenstein.com
J-Trizzle
I spent the Memorial Day weekend at Joshua Tree. It was good. The weather was unseasonably cool, making conditions unusually comfortable. It’s been like 12 years since I was in the park. The group was a bunch of trad climbers… and me. I don’t trad climb. Ever. I think it’s stupid. But whatever, I gave… Continue reading J-Trizzle
Katie Brown. rad.
Katie Brown’s rock talkyourclimbing.com – May 22, 2008“The clouds rolled in late in the day, and we headed back to town where we sat in a local bar watching, what else, a Spurs basketball game, sampling various cocktails, and munching on sweet potato fries.” crankenstein.com
something is not right with Czech kids
Ondra, 15, Repeats Action Directeclimbing.com – May 20, 2008 “Surprisingly for a climber who’s most famous for his outdoor leads, Ondra trains in the off-season almost exclusively on a small bouldering wall—he says he visits indoor lead-climbing gyms only a couple of times each winter.” crankenstein.com