Crushing Yosemite

This thanksgiving weekend(12-8-13) I went to Yosemite with some fiends. But unfortunately everyone's phone was dead the first day. I was feeling weak anyways so it was ok to just mess around on some easy stuff. But I did take a look at a v7 at the cathedral boulders called the king. I gave it two tries and then left to go grab lunch with my step dad Greg. The rest of the day I set up camp and walked around camp 4 checking out all the different boulders I hadn't seen before. 

On the second day I went back and after a few goes I finally got it! The temperature was perfect for the attempts but if you weren't climbing it was a bit cold as you will see towards the end of my video when some friends have to jump around and dance to keep warm. 

http://youtu.be/5La2Jnf4zVI

For me this climb overshadowed anything else I did that weekend. 

Some fun at nature nazis

Nature Nazi Arete

Today(4-29-13) I went to Castle bright and early to get my climb on. I headed over to the Nature Nazi area to start out the day with my current projects. The three main projects that I have are Nature Nazi Traverse(V4), Caunt Power Pull(V5), and Nature Nazi Arete(V7).

After 3-4 hrs of workin these and ripping myself a good flapper I headed back to my car for a rest and some lunch.

Then I headed up towards the graveyard area and went down to egg head boulder met some chill climbers and bouldered with them for a bit. Once my bicep cramped up and I had to take 15 min to get it to stop flexing involuntarily after that I decided it was time to go. I bid the climbers adieu and left the park.

My lessons learned today were you can still climb hard after you get a bad flapper once you tape the skin back on. =) also I think I need to always bring a drink with plenty of electrolytes so I don't cramp up like that or maybe just some bananas haha

Don't be stupid!

So two weeks ago I made a grave error at the gym. I two finger matched a crimp, being stupid thinking I could through to a jug out left, and herd a pop in my wrist when I was moving to the jug. And ohhh the pain, well not really at first I actually went and flashed a V5 to test it out. But later that night I could feel the tension building and then It started to hurt. The next day continuing with my stupidity I went to climb at castle wishing for the best. Luckily it was a short sesh and it didn't hurt to much while climbing but the rest of that day was painful. The next day I noticed there was a bruise about where I felt it pop. I went to climb on it once that next week and realized that I needed to take some time off to let it heal. So here I am two weeks later going to go back to castle tomorrow and try to send some projects. The full range if motion seems to have come back but there is still a weekends and tension. So I'm going to stretch it out again tonight and home it's fixed by tomorrow. Hopefully ill have some good news to report on my next post. Nature nazi arête here I come!

It starts...

Since I have acquired a new nickname or title, the irish king, I thought I'd make a new blog solely about climbing. I will take you along with me to my outdoor adventures by posting pictures and writing about my experiences. Hopefully you will enjoy hearing about these experiences at least a fraction of how much I enjoyed them. First off I will tell you a little bit about myself and where my love for climbing first began.


It all started in 2006 when me and a couple buddies went to sanctuary rock gym in sand city CA. I don't even recall how we ended up there, but someone suggested that we go climbing. I had been to the gym one before when I was much younger and had visited the skatepark that used to be next door numerous times. So we headed over signed our wavers rented our gear and were hooked into ropes and up on the walls in a flash. We ended up climbing for four plus hours that day and from that moment on I was hooked. Me and my friend Lawrence, who was one of the guys I went with that first time, got our gear and memberships shortly after. Oh how the climbing just lets you escape reality for a much more gymnastic and fun one. After a few months I started to get to know some of the better climbers. Among them were Mitch, Tim, and Justin. These three were probably among the top 5 climbers in the gym if not in the area. So since they were so much better than I was I started probing them for ways of improving.
They gave me a simple answer, climb outside!
Thus started my obsession.