Brief Maple Update

We’re in Salt Lake City, escaping a cold front passing through Maple (no, we[1] didn’t bring enough warm clothing), so here’s a brief update. Jen and I have both hit our stride on the cobbles. I cleaned up some unfinished lines on the Minimum Wall (Space Lord (5.12c), and Functional Idiot (5.12b)), and onsighted Sweet […]

Maple (Canyon)

We are out west again, this time in Maple Canyon, Utah, rock climbing for two weeks. We’re doing routes this year, at the behest of our friends in Arizona, who couldn’t swing a trip to Hueco Tanks earlier in the spring. For those that don’t know, Maple has a rather unique geology–massive, arching walls of […]

Climbing Motivation

Yes, it’s been awhile…. Impressive stuff. While there haven’t been a ton of new, cutting edge grit routes opened in the last year or so, plenty of strong folks (men and women) have been going at the classics from the ground up. Impressive stuff.

Life’s Little Lessons

See that terrible cellphone photo up there? That’s Seb’s rocket. The Viking. We made it together. It was fun. It looked pretty decent, even though I painted it. We should have launched it (and Oren’s new rocket) yesterday, but baseball practice at our launch site stymied those plans. I had mostly written off launching today, […]

Ebbs and Flows

We have apparently skipped right over the whole “spring” thing and moved directly into summer. It’s been in the 70s for the past week or so (at least), and the unseasonable weather looks to continue in the next week. Of course, it rains on the weekends (at least a bit), so we’ve yet to climb […]

Geekery

So I finally joined the 21st century and purchased a smartphone. Of course, it’s a Palm Pixi, and the first thing I did was turn off data transmission, but it’s a start, right? One selling point for the phone (aside from the low, low price tag) was that I could write apps using plain old […]

Old Age, Interrupted

As I was riding home through Oakland today, the grumpy old man part of my brain said “by golly, would ya believe what kids are wearing these days?” As I finished this thought, the part of my brain that still feels 18 reminded me I was wearing one of these, and had one pants leg […]

Weekly Climbing Motivation

Life On Hold – Trailer 2 from Outcrop Films on Vimeo.

The New Year

This place has fallen into a state of disrepair. Last post? November. And just a video, at that. 2011 was not a good year for my writing. I didn’t do much at all. I’ve been focused on journaling more (this isn’t a resolution since I started before the new year), with the hope that something […]

Weekly Climbing Motivation

Tomorrow I Will Be Gone from Outcrop Films on Vimeo. That’s a full length film. Excellent stuff. I look forward to their next film: Life On Hold Trailer 1 from Outcrop Films on Vimeo.