Andy, Micah, Marcela, Bridget and I checked out the Caveman cliff yesterday evening. It’s been a while since I was out climbing in to the wee hours, and it’s been never since I was at Caveman, and it was rad. .zg_div {margin:0px 5px 5px 0px; width:117px;} .zg_div_inner {border: solid 1px #000000; background-color:#000000; color:#666666; text-align:center; font-family:arial,… Continue reading Caveman
Tag: crankenstein climbing
Like lifting weights in the woods.
no Tor for me
I didn’t make it to the Tor this weekend. And I’m actually OK with that. Ordinarily, when someone bails on me for the Tor I’ll pump hate at them for a couple weeks but this time I felt the break was good. Rather than punish myself in Santa Maria, I slept a bunch, swam a… Continue reading no Tor for me
first wood
Justin, Andy and Brian met me at the Shed this morning for some early campusing. Things felt good. I did some four and two-finger work over all 3 sets of rungs, most notably: caught 5-1 drop on bigs, finished 4-1-4 on flat/rounds and ushered in the two-finger campusing season by finishing 1-2 two-finger on the… Continue reading first wood
like Disney Land for climbers
The Tor gained a new fan today. Nicholas, whom I had not met before, was way psyched on the routes at Owl Tor. And I was way psyched to see him psyched. One of us, one of us, one of us… I am actually declaring Nicholas today’s Lord of the Forest for his rad comment,… Continue reading like Disney Land for climbers
first wood
Andy and Andree met me at the Shed for early morning campusing. Felt OK. I was focused mostly on a couple moves I’d not done in a while so put on hold the highish volume I’d been doing lately, although the session did last about 2 hours. Two-finger work was definately on the agenda –… Continue reading first wood
failure at any cost
So, Saturday’s session at the Tor started out smooth. I warmed up on Power, then a lap on The Sea before I walked over to No Skill. Not only have I not redpointed No Skill this year, I’ve never redpointed it. This being my fourth day on it this season I thought this should go… Continue reading failure at any cost
first wood
I met Justin and Andy at the shed this morning for campusing. This is the first day in 2 or 3 weeks I did some moves. After much three- and four-finger warming up on the big and round/flat rungs I spent most of my time four-fingering the round/flats with interspersed two-finger hangs. This turned out… Continue reading first wood
Hell hath no furry
Unbelievable. Climbers who squander their lives on earth go to a bad place when they die. They go to Santa Maria. The place is a piece of work. Total work of art. If you thought where you climbed this weekend was epic be glad you weren’t getting it on with the Tor in June. 103… Continue reading Hell hath no furry
first wood
Campus board, I think I love you. I wasn’t even “campusing” today. That would mean I was doing moves, at least bumping between rungs. Nope, I was just hanging from the rungs. That’s how much I love campus boards. And like most things campusing is most fun in the morning. If you ask me, “dude,… Continue reading first wood