Is winter finally over? Despite a few nice days, the cold hasn’t released us from its grip. We’ve had hail several times over the last week. We haven’t touched real rock since the fall. But all that doesn’t matter much at this point, for in roughly twelve days, we will be climbing at Hueco Tanks, where it is sunny and warm. Then we will move along to the California coast, where it is also sunny warm. And from there we will go to Bishop, CA, where it is also sunny and warm. Sunny. Warm.

I’m curious as to how the climbing will go. After a winter of training hard, I feel like I peaked a bit early, perhaps a few weeks ago. I haven’t felt bad (well, most of the time, but that’s life), but my high end isn’t quite as hard as it was in March. Of course, if I manage to avoid injury at Hueco, I’ll climb harder than I did last year. I’m not sure what my goals are. There are problems I’d like to do, but I don’t know what’s reasonable, and given that I didn’t climb a lot last year, I want to do as many problems as possible. That means I’ll likely ratchet down my grade expectations (who wants to spend days climbing the same thing?), but I don’t even know where to set that bar.

A last bit of motivation before the trip:

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Posted on 4 April 2011