Bishop 11-22-06

I got greedy and decided to take a day trip to bishop while the pass was still open. The day started out amazingly with great weather and good climbing. I stopped at Rock Creek on the way down and sent the "Campground Arete", a beautiful line that I had previously tried and had since thought about a lot. I also sent "Soul Slinger", which I was very happy about since it had previously given me much trouble. It was attempting "Evilution" that changed the day from good to bad. I've never had a finger injury before now, but i knew that the loud popping noise could not be good. it was definately a bad way to end a day that started out so good. but i suppose its a learning experience. and so i rest for a while...

bishop 04/20-24-06

monica, casey and i headed over to the east side for a few days and met up with matt and brett. fun times were had, an ankle was sprained (casey's), and problems were sent.

bishop and j tree 04/08-11/06

chelsea and i climbed in bishop for the weekend and then met up with my mom and her friend down in palm desert, which was cool cause i got to climb in j tree for the first time. chelsea still hasn't fully warmed up to climbing outdoors but i'm hopeful. notables were seven spanish angels, which i've been working on for quite a while, high plains drifter, and mr witty. chelsea did this highball V1 that she had sprained her ankle on last year and almost got solarium and joseph. i also got on some really cool problems in j tree. unfortunately my skin by that point was fairly non-existent but i still managed to have a great time and send a few cool problems. there are two classic V7/8's that i must do upon return: pumping monzonite and chili sauce.

bishop 03/24-25/06

went to the east side friday and saturday. the weather was good both days and i was able to complete a longtime project of mine: enter the dragon. i found this cool unnamed problem (the above photo) slightly west of the serengeti boulder; it goes at around V6 and is pretty fun and hard to pull off the ground. i also sent cholos (V9) at the happys, which i was very excited about because i had only tried it a couple of times on a prior trip and was not expecting to send it so soon.

Bishop 01/28-29/06

I got on Enter the Dragon again and came pretty close to sending it...maybe next time. Matt made some good progress with both Molly and Hot Pants. We also went 4-wheeling in the Jetta and checked out some really great petroglyphs on the tablelands.

Happy in January- 01/6-8/06

this was a great weekend but the conditions limited our climbing. the very snowy top-outs were melting and so a lot of the rock was just too wet to climb. Lin and i both sent Atari (V6) and i got Acid Wash (V10)

first bishop trip of the season

10/26-28/05- i was lucky enough to have a few days off during the week and being that the weather locally was a bit wet, i decided to head over to the east side. i was worried it would be too warm but i was lucky and the conditions were decent. some of the highlights were therapy, every color you are, and morning dove white. i was also able to work out some beta for seven spanish angels (aka: the ruckus and the knobs). good times!