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