Bishop 1/27-1/28/06

Made a trip to bishop with Scott C. last weekend.

Got stuck in snow chain requirements on the way down, so it took forever to get there.

All in all, it was a good trip, we didn't get a copious amount of climbing in, but it was still fun.

1/27 ; went to the sads, scott got on 'enter the dragon' and made some great attempts at a brutally hard v10 that has a hard mantle at the end. I got on molly and made some progress but still have not got this (definatley the most projected problem I have). we hitup 'hotpants' on the way out, but I didn't get that either (although I did get most of the beta worked out).

1/28 ; at first we wanted to go the buttermilks, but when we heard that they were snowed in, we thought about going to 'crysta ridge' witch a few people scott had climbed with before were heading. But we decided to go to the petroglyphs because we didn't want to drive so far and then home again(i think it actually took longer to get to the petros instead of crystal ridge).

scott got to go four wheelin in his jetta to get to this place, it was awesome, scott is a four wheelin pro!

we mostly explored and found some other petros and a few good boulders nearby. we found a new line up a slopey rail. i guess i got the FA, because scott found a good edge just beyond the lip that i used to bailout and mantle to the top ;)

we aptly named this problem 'jetta four wheelin' due to our experience just gettting there!

we found some other good stuff and a hard v9-v10 project that we found some people working on.

will post pictures soon

Bishop, 12/26

Made a trip to Bishop with the girlfriend for Dec 25-Dec28th...

Seems to me like the less I care or effert I put into bouldering the better I do ;) go figure..

DID :
Ironman Traverse
Funky Tut
some v6? (with weathered edges) on Tut bldr
and awesome problem at some unknown boulders (near the huge petroglyphs)

Yosemite (12/3/05)

One Move Wonder (v8)Munchkin Lunge (v6)Cocaine Corner (v5)

Bishop (11/12/05)

'on' Ironman Traverse (v4)
'on' Cave Route (v6)

'on' Gleaner (v6)

Joshua (v3)

J-tree

Slick Willy (v2)Campsite #21

Laura, J tree & a boulder

JBMF (v5r)

J tree sunset

Joshua tree is an awesome park witch begs for scrambling and solo'ing !

The rock is gritty and kicked my ass the first day there, leaving my tips and palms bloody.

Yos Bouldering

The Hexcentric (v6)One Move Wonder (v8)Cocaine Corner (v5)

weekend trip to yos.. got on cocaine corner & one move wonder... soo close on both, but shutdown.

next day climbed with lyn and paul, we got on 'the hexentric' and i sent it after only a few tries, woot :) makes up for the shutdown..

scott got 'the king' on his second try (the first his foot slipped when starting) and another crazy jump start v9

saddle boulders

went to the saddles, i got a few decent v4's.. the area has a lot of potential.. scott almost got 'midnight train' , a sweet v7.

we went to the snowshed boulders and found a sweet v5? rail that was a lot of fun.

rainbow

'the slope' next to ishmael boulder (v4?)

Evil Arete (v5/6)

'unknown' Sugar Cube (v5)

'unknown' Sugar Cube (v3)

ahhh, rest...

Rainbow has some awesome bouldering !!!

Checkout the 1070 boulders, the sugar cube boulder(just next to the 1070 house) is home to some awesome problems.

secrets & bliss

bouldering crueunknown (v3?)

'Oh Yah', night bouldering

went to the secrets with liane, scott got clandestino (v7).. i was still injured so i layed low, but got on a few good repeats at the secrets and this sweet problem at bliss..

why ask why

Don't you just hate it when what you absolutley do not want happen does ?

Injury blows the big one, and espically when your climbing hard. But what can you do ? I injured myself on 'the bubble' at indian rocks establishing in the pocket.

I guess there is nothing to do but RICE it and work on my other weaknesses such as core strengths. Give it a few weeks then wean back into it !

YAY injury !

shhh, its a secret

Ever get tired of a million people bouldering next to you outside and feeling like your at a gym ? Ever wait in line to have a try at a boulder problem ? Feel like your bouldering at the happys ? Well, you will never deal with that at 'The Secrets'. In the cource of a whole weekend there we saw three total people and only one there to do any sort of 'actual' climbing.

Scott and I visited this area and got in some great climbing. The rock here, is.. well.. bomber, granite, tough, gritty, knobs, typical tahoe granite.

Saturday we visited The Sticks & The Mystics, both great bouldering areas. Both Scott and I got FA's (Moonshadow [Scott] & Flesh Wound [Me]) on some great problems.

Sunday we visited The Snags, witch also had great bouldering.