2009 Goals

I figure writing them down would help me keep focused.  So here they are!

Vedauwoo Goals=

-Weak Become Heroes  v10

-Analog v8-9

-Cumulous v11-12

-Daisy Cutter v6

Gunks=

-Crouching Dragon v11

-Bismark v10

-High Price v9

-Karajo v11

-Venus in Scorpio v11

(I would like to tick of as many problems no matter what the grade but theses are priorities)

Sourlands=

-Uprising v10

Haycock=

-Black Angus v9

-Over the falls v9

Colorado=

-Twilight v9

-Purity Control v10

Bishop=

-High Plains Drifter v7

-Seven Spanish Angels v7

-Soul Slinger v8-9

-Evilution to the lip v10

Hueco=

-Tall cool red one v6

-Loaded with Power v10

-Julo and me v9

-Full Service v10

-Roughage v7

-Dry Dock v7

-Taxing the Pipe v9

-Free Willy v10

Goals With Ropes= 

-Tugging Softly 5.13a

-Kansas City 5.12c

(there are a few lines that make me want to rope up)

Im setting the bar hight this year in hopes that it will push me to get stronger.  The climbs listed above are basically a wish list I plan to climb everything I can get a hold of!

-Mike

Picture Post = some old pics I had to keep you entertained till I find current ones

I'VE BEEN LAZY!!!

Well as the title says sadly I've been lazy with the whole blog deal.  However the good news is I've been very busy!  So now its time to catch up on things.  Two weekends ago I got on a plane and flew back to the east for a weekend in the gunks with Lexi.  I have to say we both had an awesome time and Lexi had a very productive trip.  She is just starting out but sent a ton of problems! As for me I kind of mulled around and ticked off some easy and moderate climbs.  My goal by the end of the summer(Im living in the gunks all summer) is to tick off all the established problems which are in the current guide book.  This is a massive goal for me.  There are hundreds of problems ranging from v0-v12!  I will have 4 months to do this but I figured I should probably start now. Cool so now everyone knows about two weeks ago.  Ok now lets talk about last weekend.  I went to HUECO! Sorry I got excited it was my first time down there and boy did I have a fantastic trip.  The original reason for this trip was to hit up the Rock Rodeo which was taking place on saturday but some how things changed and we ended up driving down on wednesday.  Crazy of us but a good choice we got in at 3am thursday morning and woke up to climb at 7.  Despite the fact we were exhausted we were stoked!  Saturday we headed out to north mt. friday to the east spur and on sat(rock rodeo) we hit up the east mt.  While I had an awesome trip I have to say I was not on top of my game.  While easy and moderate climbs went down on the flash burn or the try after that didn't apply to harder climbs sadly.  I seem to have a bad habit of getting to the top of things and my muscles seem to stop working.  Oh well!  While I didn't snag any badass lines I learned allot from this trip.  I need to train harder and get psyched for the return trip and redeem myself!  Oh and I apologize for the lack of pictures aka none so far on this blog.  Once again I've been lazy and don't feel like carrying the camera around.  If I can track down photos taken by others I'll get them up as soon as I can.  Anyway from now on I'll be taking pics for all of you to enjoy.  Well thats all for now this weekend I'll post again and give an update on the week.

-M2