Some people turned up at Wagonwheel last night! Greg, Mike, Barry, Ted, Ann, & I all decided to climb the same boulder at once. Greg won.

Bouldering is not always about succeeding on hard problems. Sometimes it’s just about being where you want to be.

Ann, Ted, Roy, and I met at the gorge for my first session there since the one that put me out for three weeks with an ankle injury. It was bound to be trying. My ankle started hurting again on the hike in, or was I just imagining it? I decided to try Crowd Pleaser…

We had a nice little bouldering session with Ted & Greg, then stayed to watch Leonids by the rising full moon until Ann remembered she had left carrots in the oven. That inspired a hasty retreat home, where we found the smell of carmelizing vegetables wafting through the neighborhood.

We were going to meet Roy & others for climbing today, but he had family visiting and we ended up on our own again. We had already agreed on Granite Knob, so that’s where we headed. We warmed up on Nervous Tension (5.8 ), my first time leading it. It’s a good climb for getting…

On a whim, Ann and I took off late Saturday night for Great Falls Basin, where we slept under an amazing sky and woke up early to get a climb in. This route is one of my favorites, Frosted Flakes (5.9). It requires some uncertain smearing, a little edging, and has an easy dihedral at…

I made my first trip to Williamson Rock in the San Gabriel mountains north of LA on Friday with Roy Boswell. It’s a pretty nice crag – I took the picture from the parking area across the valley. There are climbers on the first route we did, Being There (5.7), just left of the big…

I was poking around a bit looking for pages on the Moon Goddess Arete, which Ted hiked to the base of over the weekend and is eager to climb, when I found this simple homepage, which struck me as an example of life lived well.

Had a nice bouldering session with Ted near the Big Loaf today. Did some long, slow traverses to warm up. The temperature was perfect, a little windy, but good. I felt good for a while, then as I landed a few times my ankle started to hurt again. Soon I realized it wasn’t ready for…

I’ve sustained my first climbing injury since I started more than a year ago. Thankfully it’s just a minor ankle sprain, and will probably heal fast. It happened at the notoriously pumpy Owen’s River Gorge, on the notoriously pumpy route Show Us Your Tits (10b). I thought I had become strong enough to take on…