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.

1 comment:

May we each inspire one another to achieve all we dream of..... said...

The pit!! So many memories of that place! Glad the weather is warm and friends are a many! Hope the trip is going well. Heading to Ninilchik on Thursday...will keep my eyes on that volcano!

VLP