Boy on a Bike » Rock Climbing

Saturday at Cooper’s Rock

admin — Sun, 26 Sep 2004 15:07:21 +0000

Drew on the traverse

Me on the traverse

Seb on the traverse.

Bike Project Update

Thanks to a flat and lots of traffic, Dave and I didn’t make it to Kraynick’s on Friday, and due to the above activities on Saturday, the Steamroller didn’t get a headset. I was desperate to get the steering column together, so I brought the frame/fork/stem/headset to Biketek in Squirrel Hill, and they felt my pain and said they’d get it together by tomorrow night.

Mandala

admin — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 15:32:58 +0000

Matt has posted a few pics of my futile efforts on the Mandala….

Getting started….

Matching in the undercling…

Trying to hit the intermediate….

The Party Pooper

admin — Tue, 16 Sep 2003 19:56:26 +0000

Hummm. Looks like hurricane Isabel is going to ruin any climbing for this weekend. Yeesh. Enough of this terrible wet weather on the weekends!

Moving Over Stone

admin — Mon, 14 Apr 2003 15:07:54 +0000

Jen and I went to Cooper’s Rock yesterday. I’m fairly sure it was my first time on rock since our trip to Bishop last year. That has to be a record. It was fantastic day….warm sun, cool breeze. Oddly, there’s not a leaf to be found on the trees in the forest.

It was so good to be on rock again…to feel the crystals of gritstone under my fingers…to work hard to move over stone smoothly. After so much time on plastic, I forgot what a joy it is to really rock climb. I’ve been much more motivated to climb lately (after several months of little climbing and lots of bike riding), and yesterday just stoked the fire a bit more. I’m not sure I’m going to start “training” again, but I certainly want to climb a lot again. I was pleasantly surprised that I could do most of the circuit of moderate to hard problems that I did last year. Of course, it didn’t include anything all that hard, and I certainly didn’t project anything, but it was reassuring nonetheless.

In other news…there are some other updates on the site, especially with the anklebiter section. We’ve been busy getting things ready for the “Big Day”.