The Winter Club.
What it is:
The Winter Club is a Division of Pullharder.org, an elite group of individuals who excel in the art of suffering. More »
Crossfit – “The Bear”
The Bear
The woman in the front is Jolie, a climber I know from Fremont. I still say we need to check out Crossfit and try to make our own somehow…..
Keeler Needle
With my feet scraping against the inside of the offwidth I was struggling to remain composed. “Concentrate on technique” I said to myself as the stinging in my parched throat intensified, punishing me for messing up the logistics of this big endeavor. Five feet of desperation later, I won the battle against the heavy pack conspiring with gravity to bring me down. More »
Red Baron Tower (spanking)
There is a canyon on the south side of Lone Pine Peak, which is just West of Lone Pine and looks at Mt. Whitney with mountains’ equivelent of penis envy, but should have more confidence because it is a sick peak in its own right. In this canyon there is a big house built from stone, lots of boulders, lots of manzanita, incredible granite walls, and no water. More »
Rainbow Wall… Free!
In April, Josh and I did the Rainbow Wall Original Route in a 16 hour push car to car, 36 hours San Diego to San Diego. We freed all the pitches, with Josh ropegunning all the hard stuff (and me hanging a few times on TR), redpointing the lower half of the route and onsighting everything after “Over the Rainbow” Ledge. More »
Fishhook Arete (Mt. Russell)
Friday, Sept. 7th, 2005: Driving in Jake’s car somewhere on the 15
After a week of spontaneous email chains filled with summitpost links, shit talking, and general ridiculousness, we (Jacob Felderman, Albert Lin, Toby Guillete, and myself) were finally on our way up to Lone Pine for a weekend climb of The Fishhook Arete. Toby was working’ the iPod and happened to throw on a great album by Ozomatli collaborating with Chali 2na (”Charlie Tuna”), and out of 2na’s fast flowing rhymes came the word “fishhook.” It was a sign (Sign #1). Chali 2na immediately became our mascot, and The Fishhook Arete would be known as the Charlie Tunafish Hook Arete. More »
Hell Hike II
Well I would like to report a successful Hell Hike on Wednesday in rural Escondido.
A luring road promptly sent us to a small trail that passed by some graffiti and then dumped us in friendly chaparral to thrash about for awhile. More »
Nate Dike
Charles and I got spanked. We got on the magnificent dike, only to be shut down by the monumental task of handrilling all the bolts. Hand drilling on lead is simultaneously tedious and frightening. We slugged in 4 more bolts and pushed the route 100 feet higher….but the hardest climbing still remains. More »
How we got spanked on the Evolution Traverse
As usual, monday came and I started to bother my roommate Nate about his plans for the following weekend. What should we climb? It was Labor Day Weekend so we had time for something larger than a typical weekend. More »
The plank
This is an exercise I learned at Qualcomm which works the lower abs and lower back. It is especially effective at the conclusion of your workout when you feel you have nothing left. All you do is stay still, how hard can that be?
