Eastern

This weekend we went on a mini trip to Cheney Washington, home of the National Champion Eagles. The plan was to go to minnehaha but Morgan and then Kevin wanted to hit up Leavenworth so we detoured and landed in Leavenworth around noon. The road was dry but there were some nice snow banks. First stop was Barney's Rubble and that whole boulder was dry. To get there, we leapped frog/assembly lined crass pads and walked on them to maneuver the waist deep snow. Next was the cotton pony pointer V10 but it took 10 minutes to access the boulder which is 20 feet from the road. And after our I slipped of the jug once again.
Next up was the hot tub and the NC3 Eastern Comp.
The problems were a little reachy and the 4 hardest problems saw son ascents. For finals, it came down to who flashed what seeing as all of open only did 8 different problems! The finals route was sweet which was pinchy. steep, and slopey. First burn i screwed up hugely. Second burn I pulled through the crux to the last hold, crimped it and finger gave out on way to top out! All in all an OK comp, most routes needed bump holds and CHALKED up slopers! but other than that rad movement.
Up next might be gold bar than UW. My finger is currently angry at me so we'll see by the weekend. The UW comp is going to be the comp of the season with all the big guns, minus UW's(they're setting), should be present! Oh yeah, go team OLY!
Session 1, the rest of the pics are blurry, my camera hates action...

SPSCC/Oly

Go team SPSCC! Saturday, Western Washington University held the Season Opener for the NC3 Collegiate climbing series. For SPSCC we had myself and Kevin, for Evergreen there was Morgan, Micah, Dom, Chas and Elliot. Besides a curve ball thrown in of no smearing the comp was still fun with interesting and sometimes sandbagged problems. Myself, Morgan and Karl qualified for finals, all having a connection to Olympia as well. In the end with a flash of the third problem I managed to walk away with a free pair of evolves. Check Dom's site, climb8a, for a video and more info. Everyone else did pretty well too. Up next is Eastern and hopefully some granite!

2011

It's been awhile since my first comp and I've come along ways since then. My first ABS comp was at Vertical World Seattle. I didn't even own a pair of climbing shoes yet! (those are John's purple Mythos). This was the Briggs YMCA climbing team's (Me) first comp. The Warehouse still wouldn't open for another two years...

Now having finally reached my goals I am hungry for more. For 2011 I just want to keep at my current level and hopefully, continue to make steady progress from year to year. With a strong crew to session and train with at the warehouse, they have made it instrumentally easier to go to the gym and work to failure on a weekly basis. Once again it'll be bouldering till may and then switch to ropes. Kevin is psyched to get back on the sharp end and it'll be cool to see what he dispatches this summer too. I also plan on doing some hard trad with Dom for a change of pace! (Ideally) Sunday at gold bar and then its up to the weather to see how many times I can my hands on some good ole' granite...