Officially Winter

With the snow falling like crazy, winter is finally here. With Nic back from D.C., the gym sessions have been fun and exciting with some of the harder problems being repeated and a good vibe goin' round.
2008 was a good year for me. I got out a lot of times but I didn't rope up nearly enough. Winter will be fun training for spring...

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!!!!!!! ;) -jimmy

In the Family II

After stuffing ourselves twice with turkey Lisa, my sister and I went to the StoneWorks comp in Portland. The gym is small but bigger than the WRG and has a many steep wall as my sis found out. After punishing our fingers for three hours both Lisa and I took 2nd place in our categories! I in Junior, her in Youth A. Also a surprising but well earned finish for Colin of second place too! Go Colin! 3 of the six who came came away with second place finishes. The team is starting to gain experience but it will be a long and fun journey for the team through the coming years ahead.
In other news there might be a bouldering guide for those stuck in Olympia who are desperate enough to climb on some sub-prime boulders. The boulders are natural choss, er rock, and are all within a 30 to 50 min. drive from Olympia. Have a happy Christmas...

Dyno to Leavenworth

Thawk, Thump. Thwak, thump, Thwak.... Someone just sent Numba 6 dyno. This past Saturday the Warehouse Rock Gym of Olympia celebrated its 4th anniversary with a dyno comp and other festivities. We had about 15 brave souls turn up for the Dyno comp and they started to throw themselves at he sic Dynos. I had my camera and since I was trying most of the Dynos I gave it to Fawn and Sierra and they caught a lot of the action. The music was blasting and people were flying all over the place. It was a fun afternoon. When the comp was over, there was a rumor going around about a trip to Leavenworth on Sun. When all was set in stone, Micah, Dom, Laura, Jeremy and I went to Leavenworth in the morning and met up with Jessie and his crew from Evergreen who stayed the night. They joined us in forestland and had a pretty relaxed day trip compared to the other day trips we have taken. (See Micah's blog for past day trips) It was fun climbing in the fog infested boulders with perfect friction. I managed two hard problems and I'm glad the training has been paying off. The video will come soon once I get some rest from the busy weekend. It was a perfect way to end the '08 climbing season in Washington. Now its time to hit the plastic and get ready for spring which will be sooner than we know it...

-jimmy

Old Photos

These photos are from my I-pod that I managed to save from the crash of my dad's laptop which I edited on. I like the majority of the photos since they were taken on a relatively cheap digital camera. But what the pictures lack in quality the places more than make up for it. The coast was a fun day trip my family went on about two or three years ago and I found the area through rockclimbing.com. The rest of the pics are from previous climbing adventures. And for the podcast, it is coming soon, I promise. I just have to get my laptop to the Internet. Only the post crash videos will be available on the podcast, sadly. So, enjoy the pics from the past...

The comp video is finally up and ready. I might make a DVD with all of my footage plus a slide show with the pictures provided by Claire. Stay tuned for future updates!

Updates 3

The first is a small note from the ABS comp at the Edgeworks in Tacoma. It was another cool comp with both my sister, Lisa, and I placing first in our age divisions. Shout out to Drew taking 2nd in Masters. No video because the comp was in the dark.
Second update is Rattlesnake Lake's cool boulders. Micah has been talking about this place for awhile, and I've been meaning to get out there. Last weekend our schedules aligned and we headed out to these 'sub-par' boulders. OK, the boulders are somewhat chossy in places, and I blew off a jug on The Unnatural Traverse, but all the ledges are solid and I had a blast. Be careful near the boulder located on the Lake. The wind god is very demanding and requested the presence of my down jacket. After this encounter my want to check out the Natural boulder increased, so we trecked farther down the shore and into the secluded forest. The first obvious line was the Unnatural Traverse following a lip of this supersteep wall to a juggy top out. I started scrubbing the infinte amount of moss off of the top out, Micah tackled the finish and Dom took care of the start. I manage to send this beast first go, and went around the corner, and scrubbed off The Little Room and Blood Diamond, and managed the FA's ofthese little gems. Then I cleaned off the lip to the right of Blood Diamond and Spotted an undercling left of the start of The Little Room, and decided to link them and the rest is in the video. Hope to come back soon and send Naturalista...
Last but certaintly not least is the annual South Sound Pull Down hosted by the Warehouse Rock Gym in Olympia. Me and five other coworkers began setting foir three days, first in the back then everywhere on friday and managed to put up 54 quality problems for the masses. We had a really good showing of local climbers as well as some from Edgeworks and Stone Gardens. The video features some of the hard problems going down and also some of the more popular and accesable. Thanks to Alpine experience for providing tons of great prizes, and everyone for showingup and competeing. Hope you guys had a blast, enjoy the vid and see you again next year...-jimmy

South Sound Pull Down Results

Movie coming soon, thought I would post resulst ASAP.

Men’s Advanced

Johnny Goicoechea 5200
Joel Campbell 5100
Dmitry Kalashnikov 5000
Dominic Kehoe 4760
Nathan Furst 4660
Jason Asahara 4480
Micah Humphrey 4460
David Allwine 4340
Richard Cromwell 4320
Mike Peterson 4320
Jojo Suthiboon 4220
Andy Duhlen 4120
Jesse Vooz 4060
Jared Johnson 3940
George Bartholomeul 3700
Tyler Allwine 3480

Men’s Intermediate

1. Michael Kearney 4080
2. Josh McDowell 3900
3. James Pierson 3880
4. Jed Hawkes 3780
5. Brian Legvold 3680
6. Ian Shopland 3460
7. Chris Kotke 3340
8. Andrew Hou 3160
9. Jack Groome 2760
10. Tyler Buntain 2160

Men’s Beginner

1. Jacob Lander 2160
2. Jared Hazen 1100

Men’s Masters

1. Doug Hewell 3600
2. Krag 3540
3. Malcom Kent 3440
4. Bill Luchansky 3120


Women’s Advanced

1. Michelle Sheldon 3970
2. Laura Hurson 3800

Women’s Intermediate

1. Sara Swan 3360
2. Holly Rydel 3000
3. Sarah Moffitt 2000
4. Melody Feden 1960

Women’s Masters

1.Heather Hansen 3200

Youth

Girl’s 15-16

1. Leah Freeman 2820

Girl’s 13-14

1. Megan Jackson 3000
2. Rebeka Sears 1280

Girl’s 12 & Under

1. Amaya Kent 3340
2. Grace Campbell 1080
3. Moriah McDowell 1000


Boy’s 15-16

1. Eric Evans 4280
2.Josh Sears 2340

Boy’s 13-14

1. Colin Evans 3720
2. Russell Campbell 3700
3. Grant Lewis 3440
4. Quinn Mau 3380

Boy’s 12 & Under

1. Kawika Mau 3140
2. Greg Jackson 1200
3. Nathan Freeman 1200
4. Josiah Sears 800
5. Noah Freeman 600


By Jimmy as of 11/2/08

The Circuit: ABS 10 Opener

Wow, the walls vibrate with the boom of the bass from the subs' as the crowd gets excited for finals... More on this later. The Circuit put on another sic comp that had 196 people show up and throw down; and there were only two sessions. Do the math and it was like having two comps in one day. The WRG climbing team did pretty well for the first comp this season. We had some new climbers and this was the first comp the Amaya, Megan, and Colin. The rest were returners and they are Eric, Quin, Kawika, Victoria and me, Jimmy! Shout out to the Adults that came down Josh, Jared and Luke. The problems were set really well and there were only a few traverse problems that owned me. For finals, it was just for fun and they took the top 6 climbers of the comp. Guess who was #6, Me! I decided what the hell, and went for it. The first problem I had to get the nerves out and sent 4th go. The second problem was a nice traverse into a crazy dyno, I fell off the pinch 2nd go and then spun the hold that I would've dyno'ed off of! The third problem was super sic hard and only Johny G could dispatch it.He also managed to flash the 5 hardest probs to qualify for finals. I hope he goes to nationals. At the end of the day, I took 2nd in Juniors and 4th out of 6 in finals. Also Kawika took 4th in his second comp ever (last year he placed 3rd in his first comp ever)The vid will be posted when i get my new computer in a couple weeks.


Also For all of you with video capable ipods I'll will have a red point film podcast so you can carry my climbing videos everywhere you go and feed your climbing junkie addiction, like me! Keep crank'n through our 7 month rain season and the next vid should be from Edgeworks Black Light comp. Enjoy!

Fall into Leavenworth

Lisa in the sun on Hanta Man(V9)
George on Hanta Man
The view from Eight Mile Campground in the morning

It's been a while since the last post so here's an update! I got swamped at work during August because two employee's took a month off and I wasn't able to get out as much as i would've liked to. Then fall came around and it was time to return to leavenworth. The first trip back was with a bunch of guys from the WRG, and it was a first time outside on the granite for many in the group.

Eric on Spongebob Squarepad (V3)!

After this trip I returned with a friend from the WRG and met up with Dom and Micah and some sick probs went down. For this vid, go to www.youtube.com/funclimbs. I left my camera at home because I thought that I would be to busy spotting but I was wrong and henceforth will never leave home without it. This last trip my sister, Lisa, made a surprising debut. She was able to do almost all the moves of Hanta Man(V9) and almost sent the proj. @ the sword boulders just left of The Classic. Another leavenworth video should be up within a couple days. Some insight on future videos, there should be some vids of the local ABS comps coming up and mabey one or two in Leavenworth!

Blast Off

This was a fun climb at the quarry. The anchors were put in in some years ago and has never been climbed in over a decade. A couple weeks ago I rapped down this line and brushed off some moss and pine needles to uncover this sweet line. Off said that it was a nice 5.10+ climb, a partial truth. The last 25 feet is a dihedral that has some of the best 5.10 climbing that I've done. The approach, on the other hand, is a different story. It is a V4 boulder problem into another V4 dyno. This route requires power for the dyno, strength for the start and some finesse for the finish. Go to the youtube to watch and enjoy the video...

Little Si

The latest video is of Nic attempting to try Techno', which is the extension to Aborigine. After his attempt Micah cruised up it and red pointed Techno' for the first send of the day. I really wished that I filmed this but is was more exciting to watch in real time. My next video will be from the Tenino Quarry with some of the classic lines and maybe a sneak peak at some footage from my major movie!
Micah after sending Techno'!

10-9-0

This town(Tenino) was named after the numbers on the train, 10-9-0. Tricky! The Quarry is a great place to climb and is only a 5 minute drive from my house. I am planning on making some more videos form here soon. The alligator lizard keeps us in our place though. Enjoy Off as he works through one of his projects that are in his backyard, literally.

Exit 38 Sport!

This is my first sport climbing movie with plenty more to come in the future. all of it was filmed from the ground. Nevermind sinks down 15 feet a the base so it is an ideal area to film. Thanks to my sister for filming me. There will be a lot sport climbing coming in my feature film which should be out in October. Drew also came out and had a 5.11b onsight, his hardest to date!

Go to the youtube site to watch the new video. The link is on the right.

This is the view coming to the first Bridge.

2 From SLC

Hi, Salt Lake City was a blast. It was one of my favorite climbing trips of all time. I went to SLC Utah for divisionals, a Sport Climbing Series Competition, to try and win a bid at Nationals. And after two days of competing I took 5th overall and acquired a bid to nationals which are in the middle of July.(Stay updated for more info on this) And while I was in SLC, I happened to remember a nice bouldering area up in one of the canyons. I was at SLC a few years ago for my sister's volleyball nationals and she played volleyball I went bouldering. I remember trying the problem Twisted, a hard dihedral that seemed impossible. It still seemed impossible on the first day. Then after figuring out the beta I dragged my dad up the canyon with the video camera and filmed my ascent. Also I checked out the other boulders and managed to do one problem here my style, Johny's campus problem, and repeated it for the camera. LCC is a very nice bouldering area once you figure out how to get your feet to stay on the polished footholds. Check out the two new videos on my youtube website and enjoy!

Red Point Film

Hi! I'm Jimmy, the editor of all the Red Point Film movies. The movies are all climbing movies that I have made with my friends. It is beginning to be more than a hobby for me as I dedicate more time into filming and trying to get them at least youtube worthy or better. To check out some of my videos go to http://www.youtube.com/redpointfilm Enjoy!