yosemite 03/10-11/07

brett on the sanguinator at curry village east.



near happy isles.



me on the first move of hookahs not bazookas v7.



brett doing the stand start for hookahs not bazookas v4.

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this was an interesting weekend in the valley...it turned out that my uncle and his family were there and staying in the Ahwahnee. so i, being the lucky person that i am, got invited to not only crash on their floor, but also have dinner with them. i definately was not a dirtbag that night.

onto more interesting things, i finally finished cleaning a line at curry village east that i have wanted to get on for a while now. the stand start turned out to be a lot easier than expected but very fun. there is also a really cool sit start that basically adds a huge throw to a sloper while your body is in tension. the problem is named "hookahs not bazookas" and its probably a V4/7 for the stand/sit starts respectively.

yosemite 11/18-19/06

Monica Aranda on the dihedral at the Candylands



Matt Keebler on Crossroads Moe



Courtney Hemphill on Thriller


This was truly a great weekend. Monica sent cocaine corner, which had been her project for quite a while. It was really great to see her send after working so hard on it. Courtney Hemphill and I both sent Thriller. I had wanted to send the amazing line for a while now and i had had more than one dream about climbing it. Courtney is the third female to have climbed Thriller and she styled it to boot.

yosemite 09/30-10/01

Hammerhead (v5 R). This fun but somewhat scary problem lies on the uphill side of two large boulders that are directly across the trail from the wine boulder. bring your pads.



Z sending Hammerhead (v5 R).



me trying...and unfortunately getting shut down on super sonic wave (a lower start to sonic wave). this problem is sick!



brett ashton trying a variation to team effort. we had the idea of kinda going straight up bearing a little to the left instead of finishing lower and right. we didn't get but a third of the way up. this thing is gonna be really hard. ahhh, slabs!

yosemite 05/27/06

raza working out the moves of a new highball



frank ocasio trying the low start to a sweet new problem


crazy weather day in the valley...sun, clouds, hail, wind. no mosquitos though!

yosemite 05/20/06

Lyn high on pinball wizard (V7)



Me on prowess (V7)



Courtney on torque (V7)

this was unfortunately probably the last day in the valley of the season for me since the weather is getting really warm, the mosquitos are becoming unbearable, and the fact that i effed my knee up pretty bad. other than that we had a great day and i managed to send "prowess", which is a great new problem that randy puro found at housekeeping.

yosemite 05/06-08/06

brett on tree snake strap on (V4)



me on bruce lee (V8)



me on the victim (V4) at the woodyard



matt on athletes die young (V6)



brett on team effort (V4/5)




Team happy ending was at large once again in the valley!

yosemite 04/29-30/06

brett on the octogon (V7)



me on behave (V9)



me reaching my high point on the farce (V9)



chels on uncle joe (V3?)



brett moving staticly through the crux on athletes die young (V6)




good times in the greatest valley on planet earth!

yosemite 04/15/06

matt and i cruised out to the valley for the day and met up with paul and lyn. matt ended up sending cocaine corner, which he had been working on for quite a while. nice send dude! we also went over to the crystals and did this cool mantle to slab problem that matt had found on a prior trip. on the way back to camp 4 we stopped at this really cool boulder that has this great problem on it. crimps and then a ballistic throw to the lip. probably about V8 but not sure. what a great day!

Yosemite 02/24-26/06

I got to the valley early Friday afternoon and conditions were ideal. i got on the sit down start for honor among thieves right away and after two decent attempts i sent it on the third try. what a great problem.

Saturday i met up with matt and laura and we went over to the crystals to check out this really cool problem that matt is in the process of cleaning. i was wandering around and found two new problems. one is an easy but fun rail traverse that goes up and left; the other problem ("fold your pad") is on the blunt arete of the same boulder. it starts fairly high on the arete and a crappy crimp. it goes at around V5/6 and i think there is potential for a hard sit start. I met up with ben pope in the early afternoon in camp 4 and he showed me bachar cracker (the hardest V3 i've ever done). Ben almost got the sds of honor among thieves and did manage to repeat king cobra. We then met up with tim and scott up at some new problems up above bear hug mantle. I managed to snag the FA of a really cool overhanging prow that tim and scott had cleaned. it is called Sonic Wave (aka Fuck My Right Bicep) (V7/8). Ben got the second accent.

Sunday matt and laura and i hiked to top of vernal falls via the CLOSED mist trail and descended via the long way around. that is such a great hike but it kills my legs.

Fun was had by all and it was one of those weekends which is hard to top.

yosemite 02/10-12/06

this was a great weekend. the weather was perfect although the friction could have benefited from cooler temps. friday i went over to curry village and got on "root canal" (V7)... great problem and very difficult to pull off the ground. saturday i went from camp 4 to the sentinel boulders then back to camp 4 and met up with lin, tim, courtney, and scott who showed me a sweet eliminate of "donini problem". we went up to "honor among theives" and got shut down on the low start but scott cruized the stand up. we finished up the day with a fun moderate up above the bear hug mantle. My skin was so raw by sunday that i couldn't do a lot but i stopped by the MSG boulder at the woodyard on the way out of the valley and after many attempts i mangaged to send "Rudolph Was Adopted" (V5). This is a great problem and very crimpy.

Yosemite- 12/3-4/05

matt and i had a great weekend in the valley. saturday we went to the 140 boulders in the morning and i did a tricky and fun unknown arete (V5?). after that we went over to crossroads moe and matt came oh so close to bagging it. we spent the rest of the day at the ahwahnees. i managed to get rubiks revenge, denominator, and silly roof all of which were fun, especially rubiks revenge. matt got munchkin lunge (V6) as well as the super icky (i mean tricky) t-rex. sunday morning we walked down to the crystals and got spanked on an unknown. spent the rest of the day in camp 4. matt got one move wonder (a V8 dyno), which he had been working on for a while. props! i worked out most of the moves on indian rocker, repeated cocaine corner, and managed not to get my ass kicked on dont make me kick your ass (V7).

10/23-24/05- matt and i had a great weekend in the valley. we got in fairly late in the morning saturday and spent the day in camp4. matt worked on cocaine corner and one move wonder and nearly sent both of them. he will undoubtedly send them on a future trip. i got titanic and battle of the bulge, the latter being great fun. later in the afternoon we met up with paul and lin, who showed us honor among theives: a very nice (and hard) line somewhat near king cobra. i wasn't able to get it but i'm happy to have a new project.

sunday we joined paul and lin at the cathedrals. the temperature was very mild and on the cooler side, which made for some good sending conditions. both matt and i climbed the hexentrix (V6) for the first time. what a great problem and matt's hardest to date. nice work matt! i tried blunt arete (supposed V4) and got shut down: another project, but more annoying than inspiring. i pretended to work on "X" for a while with paul. thats one nutty problem. next we went up to the king boulder and i managed to get the king on my second try. paul and i both did behave (V9), which is a direct jumpstart variation to the king; good fun. we ended off the day with the fun and high crippler.

what a great weekend!

09/25/05- unknown highball (V4R) at the ahwahnees. uhhmm, spot please? 

09/24/05- liane working out the moves on "cocaine corner". you gotta love this problem! 

09/25/05- jeff sending "munchkin lunge" (V6) at the ahwahnee boulders.