Had an epic rest day!

We had an epic rest day the other day!

Went to the rec center to swim and play some basketball

unfortunately Hugh's stuff got stolen

But there's an app on his phone that allowed us to find it

here's a video of what happened!

We made the Denver News!!

Heading out to Rifle

I've spent the last 3 weeks in colorado

I've only been able to climb for the last week due to my foot injury

But it's been an awesome week of climbing

We only made it out to the park which was fine by me

I was able to get on several things that i've worked in the past

Unfortunately i was unable to send any of them

I was able to sent a few new things though which was a plus

Super psyched to get out to rifle though and not have to hike for the next week!

Here are a few photos

Warm up in the meadow

An organic pyramid

Rami on aristocrat

AJ about to fall

View of the park

A few pictures

Car ride out!

Crazy storm cloud!

Shopping at Target!

Last meal in Chatty before the ride out!

AJ passed out!

Colorado

So it's been 4 days in Colorado

The weather has not been so great

morning to early evenings have been clear skies but then the death storms start rolling in

The boys went to Wolvoland on monday and then met up with me, courtney and daniel at cats for a second round of climbing

At cats i climbed around with one foot not going to far off the ground to make sure if i fell i wasn't falling from too high up and potentially hurting my other foot

The injury definitely sucks because I can't really do anything but at the same time it's giving me time to just be lazy and relax and catch a breath from work and school - hopefully with this rest i will regain energy and heal all my injuries

And now i'll continue my day of rest with doing Sudoku, reading a book, watching videos, playing random computer games and napping

Hope everyone else if having a great summer!

Colorado Drive

everybody met at our place friday night

neal, rami, aj, jimmy and myself

we hung out a little bit but were all psyched on our trip to colorado that we called it an earlier night so that we were all ready for the drive the next day

i woke up around 8ish and headed to get an oil change and stop by the bank, when i got back everyone was starting to get up

that's when we started to carry everything out to the truck and it was time for me to play tetris

We had a lot of stuff but we got everything in

We headed to the Terminal for lunch and then hit the road!

Jimmy, Rami and Neal traded off driving - we stopped at Qdoba's for dinner and kept on driving!

We got to our new home for a month at 6am - took our sleeping stuff and all passed out

woke up at noon ish and went to get lunch!

The boys are headed to Wolvoland tomorrow, and i'll be hanging out with Courtney and Flannery and maybe some other folks... climbing at the gym... waiting for my foot to heal to that i can hit the alpine spots as well!!

so psyched for climbing this summer!!!

Days leading up the Colorado

I got back from the red feeling really fit and ready to train and get stronger
work on my crimps some more and overall power and strength

after an unfortunate order of events i hurt my foot
still don't know what it is since i haven't been to the doctor yet
but i'm going tomorrow and i'll know then!

order of events:
saturday: AJ and I had a debate about picking up pennies and if they are lucky or not...
Aj only picks up pennies that are heads up and they bring you good luck
The way i saw it was - it's all money, pick it up
Aj said i'll have bad luck

sunday: we headed to Deep creek to do some climbing; i warmed up and then got on my project... Aj was belaying me and when i got to the rest before the crux and felt uncomfortable doing the dyno runout crux with Aj belaying, so i asked Lu to maybe switch belays with him...
After they switched and went ahead and tried the move, fell and slammed into the wall after taking a 25 to 30 foot whipper... When swinging into the wall i wasn't prepared and my right foot hit it side ways...

Bad luck i guess

The epic part was the hike out of deep creek; jimmy carried me out in the rain... it was hard and really tiring for him!

I called the doctor monday to get an appointment; one place told me that could see me in 2 weeks!! what is that going to do for me? Called another and have an appoint for thursday... that was better!

I've been iceing it and elevating it and having ibuprofen... hopefully it's making it better and getting it to heal faster!

Count down to colorado: 10 days! 10 days to heal and be ready to crush!!

Climbing Team Trip to the Red

I took 6 of the kids from the climbing team to the red for a week trip

Aj, Anna, Caroline, Andres, Lydia and Chris

It was a great trip

Day 1 (Monday): Chocolate Factory

Day 2 (Tuesday): Military Wall

Day 3 (Wednesday): Drive By / Rest Day

Day 4 (Thursday): Rest Day / Drive By

Day 5 (Friday): Chocolate Factory / Motherlode

Day 6 (Saturday): The Zoo

Day 7 (Sunday): Solar Collector and Gold Coast

Day 8 (Monday): Drove to the Obed and climbed at Tierrany

For more details about the trip check out the TBA Climbing Team Blog!