A little taste!

Yesterday Hayden and I went up to the Pass and meet up with Gatzke. Primary objective was to catch video of Hayden resending his Beyond the Clouds(Guru shout out in the house) which is the line that starts in kinda of a crack about ten feet to the left of The Gusher. Well needless to say it has been a minute and a half since Hayden last climbed on that rig and he spent most of our time there working outthe cyrptic upper crystal moves again. Towards the end of the day Hayden was falling at the crux move on almost every go but his skin was already jacked well before we even arrived at the pass,so after some last ditch efforts
and with rapidly fading light we decide to head over to The Green Lantern which holds offer some comfert after the thin nastys of Beyond the Clouds. Hayden in my opinion had his best efforts ever on the Lantern making progress with his accuracy on the dyno which if you have been on this problem you would know that it all comes down to the accuracy of the toss(throw laser guided you must)! Hopefully this line will see it's third ascent sometime in the near future. Also, I did a few 5 second semi-locked off hangs yesterday and it felt awesome to weight some stone agian, this is the closest I have been to climbing since early August and can't wait to start getting a LITTLE TASTE of more rock!
HOLLA!
B$ OUT

Saturday at Shelf !

This Saturday Brian Rhodes, Scott Hahn,Chris Gatzke and I decided to head down to Shelf Road to meet up with Ben Schmitt and his trainer Brett. I was psyched to see the Damage Wall and was not disappointed, the climbing appears to be a-typical of other Shelf routes, steeper and on ok holds. Who knows I might even tie into a leash once I can climb again. B Rhodes walked away with the send of the day award with an awesome, inspiring ascent of Devil's Road, good work son! Next up was Ben who was amped to start giving Damage some serious send burns and when I say SERIOUS, I mean it brother. Ben's first go ended right around the crux on the head wall due to a botched foot sequence. He quickly pulled back up and climbed the remainder of the route with ease. After a good rest Ben gave it another go and came agonisingly close to snagging the third ascent of this rad looking Dan Durland route. Ben will definatly crush it how it wants to be crushed next day out. Biggest props of the day award goes to my man Gatzke who spent hours (4-6 by my calculation) hanging in a harness on a neighboring route to capture a little ill gnar gnar. All in all it was a good day to be out and chillin with good friends!
HOLLA!










side note: Scott F$%&in' hates monos! (for good reason)

Shoulder Update 4.0!

I had a good visit with the doc yesterday and am happy to report that I can start doing some dead hangs in the next week or two and start doing pull ups with some weight taken off. I am juiced for that shit, playing with rubber bands gets pretty old pretty quick and the same goes for free wieghts for that matter. I should be able to start climbing by Memorial Day, perhaps sooner if I really get after it and you know I will. It will still be another year or so before I am fully back but it's going to be nice to start doing something climbing related sooner then later!
HOLLA!

Dr. Hahn!

Scott sent this rig a while back; can you guess what it is? I'll even give you a few hints:
*it's in southern colorado
*Comparable in difficultly to the nickness
*hayden and jj haven’t seen it
Which rig am I?????????

The Never Ending Search Continues!

Around 1 pm yesterday I decided to go check out some blocks that I had spyed early last week. The blocks of interest sit on top of a massive hill about 2-3 miles up Old Stage Road just outside of Colorado Springs. My origianl plan was to head up a wash that I have been a little ways up before, (years ago), and hoped to find blocks along the way to the hill top blocks. This plan was quickly aborted due to waist deep snow that filled the wash, on to plan B. Plan B consisted of 45 minutes of insane steep scree slogging followed by another 45 minutes of post holeing, EPIC to say the least. So, an hour and a half later we tagged the top of the hill and started to examine the boulders. How much you want to bet the boulders were choss? Well if you went all in you just hit the jackpot, choss, choss, choss.... After resting a little bit Dres and myself made a quick retreat back down to the car, it's amazing how fast and almost effortless going back down was compared to the B.S. we had to go through to get the to the top, 10-15 minutes down, 1 1/2hours up, dam!!!!! I will say this,I do think there are good blocks in the wash on solid granite, I know your there, you can't hide for ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Andreas did find a rad block below the parking for the wash that I might go back to soon and see what there is to be seen on that bad boy, I will try to post a picture of that block tonight.
HOLLA!!!!!!!!!

Attack of the PAD stackers!!!!!!!

Hey, sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do!