I have made it back up to the Pacific Northwest and have been making it out a bit to the local areas which has been fantastic. Bishop was amazing climbing with lots and lots of skin being eaten up along with a stark reminder that I need to get my closed crimp strength way up for that patina. Since I have gotten back I have gotten on the training wagon again. I ended up getting a copy of Mike Doyle’s training program out of a recent copy of “Rock & Ice” which should keep me on the right track, and I’m watching what I have been eating more closely than I have been.
I’ve been really excited to get out to Leavenworth and have made a few project lists for Goldbar, Leavenworth and Squamish. I should be spending four days this weekend out at L-town with Ari starting to tick off projects and doing some easy trad on the rest days.
Today I injured myself climbing. This isn’t one of those “I’ll be better in a few days” type injuries, but more in the category of me being unable to climb at all for a month or two. Considering that I have been looking forward to climbing full time for almost seven years now, this is a major set back. I’m still dealing and mentally processing what I’m going to do with what has happened to me but I don’t really blame myself. It is interesting that after all of my sacrifices and hope that I don’t feel that anyone or anything has cheated me out of my dreams. More than anything else at this time I see it as an opportunity to take a breath and see what I want to do with the time that I am going to have in the near future. Right now I am in San Francisco and was planning on being here at a week at most, but now my stay is potentially going to be much longer than that. I have some serious decisions to make, but those will wait for a day or two when I have a better idea as to what my near term physical health is going to be.
Hey everyone, so here is the video that I promised everyone of climbing in Leavenworth. I have a lot of touching up and work to do to learn to use the new video editing suite as well. Enjoy!!
I have finally started what I consider to be my big climbing trip this last weekend. Kaiti, Mattie Ari and myself went out to Leavenworth for three days of climbing and exploring what Leavenworth locals make of Octoberfest. Two of the days we got in some really good bouldering and one of the days was a general climbing wreck with some trad climbing. I’ve been spending so much of my climbing career bouldering that I haven’t really developed my ability to climb hand cracks and that became very apparent last weekend as we struggled to make it up some fairly easy cracks and ended up heading over to some more difficult sport climbs. I’m really looking forward to learning so much more about climbing movement by putting in mileage.
It was really wonderful to be able to spend a couple of days with friends relaxing outdoors and focusing on what I enjoy doing the most. The next few weeks transitioning to climbing on the road fulltime is going to be a wonderful growing experience for me and should be a good chance for me to reflect on my life and explore more of my personal aspirations for the next few years.
np: A Day Apart from the album “Language Barrier” by Lusine Icl
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