Weekend @ The Park

Nick Murray and I headed up to The Park Saturday morning to meet up with Than and Codi to get some climbing in. Everyone was juiced and I haven't been up there to climb in so long that I could hardly contain myself. I think the last time I climbed up there was around '06. We decided to head up to Emerald to give Whispers some goes and I thnk it went pretty well, can't wait for my next session on it. Nick and I both made it to the crimp after the flip move and Than was able to suss the beta for the opening move before his bicep started acting up.



Nickastickin'



Thanasticking'



Can somebody spot the makings of a waterfall?????

After getting our fill at Emerald we halled balls to lower to scope Deep Puddle Dynamics. The start of this problem is fucking awesome but I am a little put off by that left hand gaston shit at the top, BOOOOOOOO says I!!!!!! After we had our fill of DPD we made our way to the Gobot just as it stared to sprinkle. Hopeing that it was going to be one of those in and out storms we took shelter in hopes of waiting it out. That didn't last very long before we all decided to high tail it back to the safety of the parking lot. Got f^%&*in' drenched and did not have the foresight to bring a change of clothes.

Nick and I got up in the morning to see some rays of sun and most of our stuff was at least dry enough to provide warmth not hypothermia. Nick wanted to show me Skipper D but when we got up there the fucker was still deep under the snow pack. I wasn't feeling to good when we arrived at Upper and ended up chillin' out for a bit and then Nick and I jumped on Golden Rows of Flows. I think this is a bad ass problem and I will be back as both Nick and I had some really good burns.



Nick on Golden Rows of Flows. All in all it was good short weekend trip filled with all sorts of try hard and I am sure I will be back soon.

Bloody Arete Sit...Day 2 P.S

I decided to ditch out of work yesterday at 10 am and head up to the Pass with Nick Murray with the intention of sending Bloody Sit. Conditions weren't to bad although I would have preferred the temps to be a little cooler and the humidity to be a third of what it was. I had some really good burns falling off on the second and third moves of the stand. I did however have a little problem with my right hand greasing off the death prong(right hand start hold for da stand) with lead to this..........





I don't think I will be getting back on this rig until the good conditions arrive in the fall unless we get a real cold spell. Nick mean while started giving the stand his first goes and looked way strong, he will crush fo sho his next time on.
WORD!

Durango

Last weekend my Dad and I took a little trip to Durnago. My Dad needed to the go to the title company that had all the records pertaining to the land he just purchased that he plans to retire on.


Pic of Property
Initially we thought the title company was in Durnago and I thought great, I will get a hold of Dan Steves and try and make climbing plans while my pops does his thing. Well it turned out the the title company was in Pagosa Springs (were the property actually is) and Durango was a solid hour out of the way. A big thanks goes out to my Dad who drove an extra 4 hours out of his way just so I could go bouldering for an afternoon.
I eventually meet up with Dan early Sunday afternoon and he gave me a great tour of a cool sandstone area. The blocks were pretty rad with all kinds of sicky features such as pinches, pockets, slopers, crimps all with there own unique flavor. I had a good day climbing onsighting a 5, flashing a 6 and doing a super rad 5 star 7 second go. Dan and I also tried some harder problems including a sick arete with super sharp crimpers to committing dynamic moves for the exit with a nasty rock right below. I managed to make it up to the big throw to start the exit but didn't have the juice to fully commit with out more pads. Again props go out to Dan for driving and showing my ass around, thanks homie! It was a good quick trip and I can't wait to head back to that part of the state.