January Updates

ABS Regionals for the climbing team went pretty darn well this past weekend, of the 11 kids on the team who went, 7 made it to finals! Some highlights are, Victoria 1, Lisa 2, Eric 3 and Ian 4. Then the following day Lisa, Jimmy, Ryan and I headed over to the new Vertical Club/World bouldering gym in Tacoma which is, ah, SICK! The place has walls that stop around 20 feet if you go to the very top. They have 99% new holds, ranging from So Ill to Rockcandy. The holds were so new that you would slip off of them (which made for some entertaining falls by the way). I was feeling good and managed to send everything I tried with a few exceptions. My modified training regiment for Bishop is working. Oh, and I'm heading south for spring break to go to Bishop for(as of now) approximately 12 days of climbing with a bunch of climbers from SPSCC, mainly Jimmy and Ryan. They did really well at VCT. They just need some bomber calluses and some stamina, but 12 days we figure 2 days per area, Happies, Buttermilks, Druids and a little Owen River Gorge thrown in. My only (hopefull) goal is to send a V10 and 5.13a this trip, which I think is in my realm. Other than that I want to just send as many classics as possible and help scout out problems for Jimmy and Ryan and the others. It should a fun/painful 12 days. Till then, see ya crankin' in the gym...

Maybe a 2010 tick list soon but my main goal is to push myself to my absolute limits and be both #1 in routes and boulders on 8a for Olympia, so Dom, Look out! -jimmy

Winter Bouldering

It is nearing the end of Christmas Break and the 2009 season has come to a close. Last weekend Nicholas, Lisa and I headed over the Cascades to try to do some bouldering in Leavenworth. The boulders were, well, iced over but a few lines on the footless traverse boulder were dry at Swiftwater. All in all it was a fun day and I didn't manage the send of Bangalador Torpeedo. I needed one more V8 to beat my bouldering score form 2008. I was close (off by a few points!). Leavenworth is a prety cool town in winter and would probally be funner with a sledinstead of a pad. The video below is some uneditted footage from the trip. See ya in Leavenworth in three months (Hopefully this training regement thingy will help ;)