Feburary Fun-Snowy Leavenworth

The weather around Olympia has been extraordinarily beautiful and dry for the past couple days. Sitting in class all I was focusing on, besides how much homework I have to do, is how dry is Leavenworth. Earlier we experimented with winter L-town bouldering and came up short handed with snow free walls, bu iced over holds. This time was, well, the exact opposite. The walls were dry and snow free except for a few. Derek, Kyle, Jeremy and I all piled into a Subie and headed over highway 2, sadly passing gold bar, on our way to the boulders. Our first stop was Forestland where we all warmed up. After messing around on One Summer Low, a nasty Domish crimp thingy, I managed to send it. Feeling good about my crimp strength I headed around the corner and began sessioning Back Door Ass Attack(V7). I fell off the starting move a couple times then derek mentioned the hip beta, basically bring it above your hands (yeah it was painful). But for the life of me I couldn't bump my left hand to the crimp. so I said screw it I'm doing this my way. I threw my heel up, reached to the first crappy left hand sloper on the bottom of the rail, shot my right hand out right to an undercling pinch in the crack, and then delicately hucked my right again to the lip, finally to the 'easy' part. The top out was a little sub par with my left heel slowly coming off but none the less still sent! Meanwhile Derek managed a send of One Summer(V5), and Jeremy came excitingly close to one summer low(V6). Also, Derek managed to get the subie stuck in the snowy parking lot and after 15 minutes of pushing we moved on.
Next stop was the Sword boulders until the road ended abruptly at Bridge Creek, so we headed back down to Mad Meadows were we ran into the Allwine Brothers and Kjerstie. Then we headed over to Pimpsqueak(V9) where I managed a flash, luckily caught on film, and was pleased to have done this scary line first go to not have to worry about the iffy landing anymore! After messing around on the hard lines we migrated over to the Pretty Boulders which was a killer hike (Little Si is going to suck, my legs already hurt...). Derek, Kyle and Jermey got to work on Pretty Women(V5) and Pretty Girl(V3). Jeremy had the send of the day jumping the last bit of Pretty Girl and sing over Kyle's head but somehow managing to cling on for the send. Also with some high steppin' he sent Pretty Women! Then after suicing out the tricky foot beta both Derek and Kyle fired off Pretty Girl. By this time we were all feeling beat so I decided to try Batman(V8) to no avail. Guess I've got to be fresh for this one. For one last punishment we headed to the Answer man boulder and tried a stupid V5 and then headed over the pass and on home.
It was an awesome weekend besides a scheduling error for a ghost birthday party at worked that ruined Saturdays Plans, but slacklining almost made up for it(10ish steps and a turn around!). I can't wait for new problems at Bishop and to start projecting the harder lines this spring in Leavenworth. I Just need some more enduro and sunshine...

(Vid coming soon-jimmy)

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 ;)

Study Break

There's nothing better than sending a mini proj. during a study break between finals. As rare as it it is, I was able to go bouldering in DECEMBER in Olympia. I braved the cold(handwarmers in bag) and made my way out to skookumchuck. The hillbilly boulders were dry so I grabbed the pad and got to work on the last hard line on the boulder. It starts with a pistol grip for the right and you go to a slopey crimp for the left. Then you get a heel on the pistol grip, move your right hand to an undercling then shoot out with the left hand to a micro crimp. From here there are a few strenuous crimp moves to a mantel in a little scoop, top out and pump fist! It was good to be able to climb outside so late in the year. I also checked out another cliff band that yielded a few good crimpy boulder problems. I'm heading out there today for a little scrubbing and(hopefully) sending! So grab your brushes and get scrubin...(theres plenty of moss/dirt/choss/shrubs for everyone) -jimmy The proj is (Kill the Hippie V7ish SDS)

SBC 2009

The past Saturday was the Seattle Bouldering Challenge. It is THE biggest comp on the west coast and saw over 200 competitors again this year. Both Lisa and I competed in open and we were able to bring up 6, yes 6, other climbers from the climbing team. The problems were really well set. I ended up 17th out of 29 in open and Lisa qualified 6th and finished 5th. There were a lot of good climbers and the competition was tough. My Excuses: not training enough, no steep training walls, anything else I can blame... ;) Alex did an amazing job this year qualifying 5th and would've finished in top ten execpt for a crazy final prob. 1. Lisa did an awesome job as well placing higher than qualifying for the first time! Climbing team did well. Colin got third in beginner and Quinn got 8th out of 42 in Intermediate! If possible I would like to come back to this one again. Evidently this was my 7th time climbing at this comp. Finals were, well AMAZING, to watch. Russ, Eric, Colin and I all had front row seats. Watch the vid to get a taste of what you missed...

SSPD III Vid!

Youtube didn't like the soundtrack so here's the video. It's the ipod version so quality is a little sub-par...

SSPD from Jimmy C. on Vimeo.

Results from SSPD III

The results are here...
Youth 12U MALE
place Name Prob 1 Prob 2 Prob 3 prob 4 prob 5 Falls Total
1 Billy Beggs 920 980 800 880 820 3 4394
2 Zak Surma 920 860 780 900 880 2 4336
3 Nathaniel Surma 680 700 800 780 1320 4 4272
4 Patrick Flannery 800 660 880 700 680 10 3700
5 Kawika Mau 660 700 680 540 580 2 3156
6 jacob tramel 460 680 660 700 440 5 2930
7 Kevin Flannery 460 480 400 380 680 1 2398
8 nathan freeman 280 380 680 420 400 6 2148
9 noah freeman 180 220 260 280 200 6 1128
10 Casey Ryan 200 220 180 260 280 6 1128

Youth 12U FEMALE
place Name Prob 1 Prob 2 Prob 3 prob 4 prob 5 Falls Total
1 victoria clarke 880 920 860 800 780 2 4236
2 mariah mcdowel 220 180 200 240 260 0 1100

BEG. MALE
place Name Prob 1 Prob 2 Prob 3 prob 4 prob 5 Falls Total
1 Lorenzo Manuel 800 940 920 720 700 4 4072
2 Ketl Rodanski 700 680 880 640 660 3 3554
3 Joel Foreman 380 440 660 480 460 4 2412

BEG. FEMALE
place Name Prob 1 Prob 2 Prob 3 prob 4 prob 5 Falls Total
1 Taylor Feldman 200 320 220 240 400 3 1374
2 jessica ditto 200 180 140 160 260 0 940

Int. MALE
place Name Prob 1 Prob 2 Prob 3 prob 4 prob 5 Falls Total
1 Chris Kotke 1000 1120 1040 1020 940 5 5110
2 Josh McDowell 1000 920 1020 1120 900 2 4956
3 Quinn Mau 1120 1000 920 900 940 4880
4 Colin Evans 1120 1000 920 900 940 8 4864
5 Alistair Rockstad 880 920 1000 1120 940 2 4856
6 Reece Prehm 1000 1040 900 920 880 2 4736
7 Ryan Beaty 880 900 1120 920 840 8 4644
8 Kyle Tran 1000 940 920 900 880 5 4630
9 Keenan Waeschle 1120 800 900 920 880 3 4614
10 James Wheeler 1000 900 940 860 920 8 4604
11 Micheal surma 880 820 840 900 920 8 4344
12 Kaleb Zerger 780 920 1000 800 840 2 4336
13 Ian Robinson 780 700 1000 880 860 2 4216
14 Joshua Sears 720 860 880 760 920 3 4134
15 Jacob Tafejian 700 920 900 780 680 0 3980
16 Casey Durauleau 700 820 800 840 680 14 3812
17 Kitt Mullikin 680 880 760 700 800 4 3812
18 Von auguston 860 920 660 700 540 8 3664
19 Jack Groome 660 800 780 700 680 2 3616
20 Matthew Wei 680 580 760 800 720 8 3524
21 Mark Dorner 400 540 700 880 660 7 3166
22 Casey molenaar 440 540 380 680 660 2 2696
23 Tyler buntain 260 400 660 460 540 4 2312

INT. FEMALE
place Name Prob 1 Prob 2 Prob 3 prob 4 prob 5 Falls Total
1 Victoria Alexander 760 800 780 880 920 8 4132
2 Erica Warren 700 880 920 780 720 0 4000
3 amaya kent 700 920 780 720 880 3 3994
4 Carrie Tomlinson 680 900 920 720 700 1 3918
5 Amanda Beaty 660 700 680 920 820 5 3770
6 Sara Roberts 680 580 700 660 800 3 3414
7 leah freman 110 700 680 640 580 2 2706

ADV. MALE
place Name Prob 1 Prob 2 Prob 3 prob 4 prob 5 Falls Total
1 Derik Renfroe 1020 1000 1120 1040 1280 5 5450
2 Kyle Strawn 1140 1020 1120 1040 1080 4 5392
3 Eric Evans
4 Whitey 920 1000 1120 1020 1040 2 5096
5 Soren Bliss-miller 940 920 1120 1000 1040 2 5016
6 Thomas Barham 660 780 460 480 500 1 2878

ADV. FEMALE
place Name Prob 1 Prob 2 Prob 3 prob 4 prob 5 Falls Total
1 Laura Hurson 920 1000 980 1120 1020 6 5028

Open. MALE
place Name Prob 1 Prob 2 Prob 3 prob 4 prob 5 Falls Total
1 Sam Wolff 1300 1280 1220 1240 1260 16 6268
2 Zan Bode 1200 1300 1280 1220 1240 9 6222
3 Alex Fritz 1200 1300 1280 1220 1240 10 6220
4 Jake Shannon 1280 1140 1160 1240 1200 8 6004
5 Adam Claessens 1180 1120 1280 1100 1200 2 5876
6 Dom Kehoe 1100 1180 1120 1140 1200 1 5738
7 Micah Humphrey 1180 1120 1140 1100 1200 2 5736
8 Dave Gates 960 1120 940 1000 920 2 4936

Open. FEMALE
place Name Prob 1 Prob 2 Prob 3 prob 4 prob 5 Falls Total
1 audrey 780 0 0 0 0 0 780

Masters. FEMALE
place Name Prob 1 Prob 2 Prob 3 prob 4 prob 5 Falls Total
1 Carrey Flannery 460 480 660 540 320 0 2460

masters. MALE
place Name Prob 1 Prob 2 Prob 3 prob 4 prob 5 Falls Total
1 Dave Thompson 840 780 880 820 920 3 4234
2 Sean Flannery 580 660 880 700 680 7 3486
3 Steve Lerch 700 660 680 580 560 0 3180
4 Ron Lavigne 540 700 660 680 580 3 3154
5 Dave Molenaar 440 540 500 520 700 0 2700