Saturday, January 31, 2009

More Bishop please...


Ah, more beautiful weather is being had here in Bishop. It started to get a little chilly about a week ago during the night but has steadily gotten warmer over the past few days. It has been quite pleasant in the sun without making the rock blazing hot. I've been chillin here for the past few weeks, met up with some friends I met the last several times I've pasted through so we've been enjoying the weather, climbing and each others company while camping in the Pit. I've been throwing down the bouldering as much as I can, the fingers have been taking some real punishment.
I've enjoyed the local hot springs here in Bishop. After several days of climbing it was found to be quite relaxing, relieving the muscles and stress of this road trippin lifestyle. Well, not a lot of stress was relieved but I felt better afterwards.
We got to rope up in Owens River Gorge the other day and as I suspected I have no endurance past 5 moves. This could prove a real problems with my plans to do some serious trad climbing in Red Rocks in about a week. I plan to go back to Red Rocks Monday or Tuesday and remedy this as much as I can before Kerry comes down from AK in a week. That is assuming of course that Redoubt behaves itself for the next week. Good luck with that AK.
The end of the trip and this lifestyle is quickly coming to a end, I've been slowly planning my return to AK, still aiming for early March. I plan on making some stops in Colorado to visit friends, ski hills and rock and of course some family in ND. After that it should direct cold shot back north hopefully just in time for some good snow.
Thats about it from down here, hope all is going well for everyone.
Cheers!




This was a video I through together with photos I got from a Canadian fellow I climbed with for a few days. As it says this was only a few attempts of many but it got when I finally sent it. It was a cool V2 that I found much more difficult than the V4 right next to it. I got that much earlier.

Saturday, January 17, 2009

Summer returns!

After a quick jaunt north to the land of snow and ice, which was oddly found throughout Oregon and Washington I have caught word of summer's return. I spent the week in Salem with the weather a vast change from the ice and snow it was a mere 10 days before, it was now back to its usual paces of wet and windy. I had a quick house sitting gig keeping eye on a couple of dogs and the cable TV during which I came down with some sort of chest cold that took me down. A week and a half later I still feel the lingering effects of it.
I have returned to Bishop where the weather is quite warm and sunny. The other day it was 70 degrees and the other days not far from that. Getting back into climbing has been once again a humbling experience, I hope its mostly due to the cold I suffered through, I don't have quite the strength I did weeks ago and the short approaches are really kicking my butt. It deters me little and each nice day I wander into the boulder fields and throw myself around with reckless abandon. I have to get myself healthy and back into shape with Kerry on her way back down to Red Rocks with some serious routes on her mind. I hope not to slow her down. I've got some work to do.
Hope everyone had a good new years, I spent mine in Bend where I ODed on my favorite beer ever, Bend Brewing Company Hop Head IPA. She was a wicked mistress, luring me in giving me comfort, funny feelings, hope. Then I didn't feel so well. I have yet to touch beer since then but rest assured it was mostly due to the cold, I'll find my mistress again.
Just a quick shout out to my old man, hey dad, Happy Birthday, he turned 50 the other day. Thats old. Real old. Good for you man. Just food for thought but some of my first conscience thoughts/memories of him he was my age now... hmmm.
Well, I got to get back to climbing and living... I'll post when I can and get some pics up when I actually take some.