Heya everyone! I’m doing major catch up today since I obviously haven’t posted in almost a YEAR! What the heck, I can’t believe it’s almost December. Anyway, I’ll be catching everyone up in the next few days hopefully on what’s been happening this past year.

This climbing area is up in a place called Reddington Pass. It’s a gorgeous place and only about an hour from door to boulder. While this area IS beautiful, it only offers a couple good bouldering problems, limited warm ups, a squirrely approach (that is hard to manage with kids) and naked people that I would rather not see. This is a nudist area and unfortunately, they are in force when the weather warms up. Soooo, this means that we can only climb when the weather gets cold so we can avoid having to look at naked body parts. Thanks but no.

Anyway, we found  an awesome boulder that we wanted to start projecting but the second time we worked it, I totally jacked my knee up and Tommy tweaked his finger. So disappointing! It put us out of climbing for about 6 months and while I was totally pissed about this hiatus, it actually ended up being a great thing. As climbers, we never want to take rests because they cause a loss of gains! Finger, skin and core strength are the things that are lost the quickest and sooo hard to regain. However, one thing that does stay with you is experience and we are lucky that’s the case.

So, with that, here is the boulder we worked back in March that put us out until October. It’s an amazing rock with some super sweet problems. I don’t know if we’ll make our way back to it anytime soon.

 

Hey everyone! Ever since Hueco Tanks decided to turn into a lame, climber hating park, we’ve been searching for new places to frequent so we don’t have to give our money to liars who make stuff up just so they can close down access to us. This has proven difficult. Obviously, Hueco is a climbing Mecca and one of the best destinations in the world for bouldering …so that means finding comparable rock is almost impossible. However – if you’re willing to hike for 45 minutes and put your hands on some fairly sharp rock, you’ll find an amazing hidden gem of a place. Our New Years was supposed to be spent back up in Red Rocks, but we decided to stay home and finish the roof on the woody. So while here, we started searching around for something close that wasn’t bad and wasn’t covered in snow. We had heard of the “supes” a couple years ago while it was still in it’s development stage and people were saying great things about it. So we decided that we would trudge out there and give it a fair shake. Thank goodness for us, one of our good friends had been there a few times and offered to meet us out there and show us around. The hike was long but not horrible and the area was absolutely beautiful! We decided to head out again the following weekend but had to do it alone. We explored a couple new areas but then ended up getting lost. It was a fun day and we’re excited to get back. There is a project up there that we both want to put to bed!!

 

 

Our trip out to Bishop this year was a little different from previous ones. About 4 days in, a huge system came through and dropped the day time temperatures to just above freezing. There was no way we were going to function, let alone climb in that kind of weather, so we decided to pick up and head to Red Rocks just outside Vegas. I’d never been bouldering there, but Tommy told me it was great stuff, and we didn’t want to end the trip prematurely. I’m really glad we went because it was absolutely beautiful and the soft sandstone felt so good on our fingers. We climbed there for two days and then headed home ending the week long trip. It was a lot of fun and we had the boys with us which made for some interesting times. 😉 They both loved climbing around on the rocks and Will even fell off one and banged up his head. He’s a tough little booger though and while he probably needed stitches, we just rubbed some dirt in it and pressed on. 🙂 Tommy was able to finish off his longstanding project, Morning Dove White, which has now become my project! Haha! I’m very excited to go back next year and put that one to bed. We also ticked off some other projects and found some new ones in Red Rocks, so all in all, a very fun and productive trip. Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving as well!!

Here I am getting the send of a sharp pockety little V6 called Action Figure:

…And finally after 3 seasons of trying…Tommy gets the send!

This Halloween was a LOT of fun. A lot of work, but a lot of fun. We decided to hold a competition at our woody and make everyone dress up and climb in their costume. I wasn’t sure how it was going to turn out, but it ended up being an absolute BLAST! It was colder then hell, but we had a great turn out and the people that attended said they had such a good time and are looking forward to next year. We put a lot of time and effort into putting up quality problems and I spent a crap ton of time on my costume. I dressed up as the Black Swan and the final product (not trying to brag) was amazing. Unfortunately, it was SO cold outside that I had to put on a puffy and boots to survive so it kind of ruined it. And because of that, I only got a few pictures of it. Lame, I know. Plus, we were so busy trying to run the comp, we didn’t take many other pics. Thanks to a few competitors, we got a few more, but next year, if we do this again, we will be sure to take a lot. I’ve already picked out a costume that would be ok in cold weather so I’ll be able to function. Anyway, for our first try, I’d say it turned out pretty darn good. =) Enjoy!