I think we crushed it pretty good. Run approximately 160 meters on the “track” and complete a station, repeat. Keep doing this until you have completed all 6 stations. If you have no stations to go to (cause your done), or one is taken, keep running. If you will notice, there is two less station than participants. Its kinda like a sick and twisted version of musical chairs, except the music does not stop, and nobody fucking wins until everyone is done. Repeat. Repeat three times. More »

The trickling sensation of fear and anticipation moved slowly through my body in the days leading up to the climb. Every thing I had done to this point would not compare in shear scale, where we were headed was in my mind the “Mount Everest of rock walls”. Driving into the Yosemite valley I thought back again to the days of my youth, where a wide eyed 12 year old sat in the back of his parents car staring up at the towering El Capitan in amazement… at that point I would have never believed I would one day scale that very wall. More »

For various lame reasons, very few people showed up to wreck today, so we drove over to the gym to throw some iron around. More »

Scotty had promised that we would do an FA for our birthdays back in July. Unfortunately the weather had other plans for us that weekend (We were able to do the FFA of Kostas and Nate’s route Cleavage Dreamer, with a direct start). A promise is a promise, so the next chance we had, we were headed back up to the North Face of Mt. Russell to give it another go. Things went smoothly enough (I have yet to go on a Scotty vacation). We got up at 4am on Saturday to avoid getting busted by the rangers on the approach, and got to the base of Mt. Carillon where we set up camp and had a leisurely afternoon of bouldering, top-roping, among other things… More »

Teased by reports of big virgin granite up the Cleaver Valley, Lindsey, Shay Andre and I found ourselves parked at Whitney Portal late one August evening.  Motivated by acclimiatization and ranger concerns, we immediately started hiking up, bivying on the sandy bench above LBSL.  I think this is a useful strategy for mitigating altitude sickness, and it also allows one to enjoy the hike in the coolth of the night. More »

For strength today with some new exercises utilizing suspension techniques (TRX).

4 rounds, 1 minute at each station, 2 minute rest between stations. More »

Run and work is the name of the game. Run approximately 320 meters on the “track” and complete a station. Keep doing this until you have completed all 6 stations. If you have no stations to go to (cause your done), or it is taken, keep running. If you will notice, there is one less station than participants. Its kinda like a sick and twisted version of musical chairs, except the music does not stop, and nobody fucking wins until everyone is done. Repeat. Repeat three times. More »

Every so often, it is necessary to scare the living shit out of yourself, if for no other reason than to awaken an appreciation of life and its fragility. I set out solo on tuesday night, headed up to Glacier Gorge in Rocky Mountain National Park, intending to spend 2 days and 2 nights soloing some easier alpine rock routes and enjoying the high country. The second half of the 6 mile hike to my basecamp was done in the dark, providing cool temps and a certain mystique that only the forest at night can provide. The next morning I woke up to a beautiful sunrise behind the massive West face of Long’s Peak, and a generous spluge of Alpenglow on the Western peaks of the gorge. More »

Workout: Interval
We changed it up to intervals today.

Workout: More »

The pipeline is perhaps the most imposing roof in the Eastern Sierras.  Flawless granite extending itself from the wall more than 30 feet.  Andre and I spotted this obvious feature while putting up Sweet Carillon.  This weekend we went up to explore it. More »

A little core workout to cleanse the soul. More »

Last weekend, Kostas and I went to explore the West Face of Polemonium on the Palisades crest. After a lot of hiking from South Lake and a ton of talus scrambling, we managed to put up a pretty fun route that tops out on Polemonium Peak. More »