Winter Break

I've had a pretty awesome winter break so far

To start off winter break I headed up to Michigan with the climbing team

They had regionals up there

Overall it was a great competition

4 of them (Andres, Chris, Anna and Evan) are going to divisionals in north carolina

Following that i went to Hueco Tanks for a 10 day trip

I was super psyched but did not have any expectations

And because of that i had the best trip ever

I climbed my first V11 and finished off several old projects

At the same time I left behind several more projects to come back to

We came back to Chattanooga for the holidays

My dad came up to visit

It was a fun time

I've been climbing almost everyday since the holidays

Trying different things at different place around town

Here is a little clip of jimmy and i sending

Rocktown and LRC

this past weekend was awesome!

one of the best climbing weekends in a while!!

my friends Rachel and Eddie came into town and we went to Rocktown on saturday!

the weather was amazing

it was their first time there so we ended up sticking to the front area (the orb to big bad boulder)

we started off at the orb and it was just a little too hot to complete that one

we then continued to the vagina which has been a long time project for me

i have been trying that thing for probably about six years now!

Eddie almost flashed it and quickly sent it two tries later

i didn't want to try it yet so i attempted digital scales instead

after figuring out that it is a very HARD problem

i decided to give the vagina a try

i ended up sending within a few tries

i felt a weight lifted off my shoulders!! i was so psyched!

we continued over to burst of joy

which both eddie and i dispatched within a few tries

from there we headed over to the big bad boulders

eddie managed to flash big bad and big bad right

he had a little bit of trouble on little bad though, haha

i figured out short person beta for big bad and was able to climb the boulder!!

oh man it was an awesome day!!

the weekend was not over yet

we headed to cumberland on sunday but the parking lot was full so we ended up at LRC

being the 90 - 95 people there for the day so far

we headed to the back by the shield and warmed up on the jug wall

after warming up we decided to get on kneed it

jimmy sent it

and i attempted it and flashed it!

i can't remember if i've ever truly attempted the boulder or not

either way i did it first try that day

so psyched

rami and eddie did it as well

jimmy, rami and eddie headed to heroin, junkie and white trash

while i attempted dunky doobie with a few cats from atlanta

i figured out all the moves and started to try it from the start

i was not able to send it, but i am psyched to get back on it soon

but probably not until after hueco

i got finals this week and i will be going to michigan this weekend with the TBA climbing team

because they have regionals up there! should be a blast!

Last few months...

The bouldering season usually starts with the first Triple Crown Bouldering Competition in the south at least

It's not that people don't boulder in the summer, it's just the weather starts cooling down usually around the time of the first Triple Crown Comp

They changed it up this year by having the 1st comp at hound ears like always the first weekend in october, but the 2nd comp was at LRC and it was the second weekend in october and the last one was held at horse pens on the 1st weekend of november

It was a good competition series

The highlight of all three triple crown events was that i climb at least ONE new rock climb at each one...

hound ears: 2 new climbs

LRC: 1 new climb

HP40: 3 new climbs

SO PSYCHED ON THAT!

besides climbing i've been really psyched on school because i finally found a major that fits what i want to learn about and when i graduate with the major i will have many different options on what i want to do for a job

i've register for next semester and i have three more left

so that means that my graduation should be May of 2013

I'm so psyched to finally be coming to an end of my college experience!

back to climbing; i've been getting more and more psyched on climbing and pushing myself and my limits...

one thing that i need to concentrate on though is preventing injuries which i have not taken very seriously in the last few weeks

either way i'm psyched and it's getting cold and HUECO in december!

Cast Away

Here's a video of Cast Away

So psyched!

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!