Just An Update....

Well, it’s been a bit since my last post and a few interesting things have happened.

I recently had an interview with BD but unfortunately was turned down; I’m pretty bummed because it would have been a sweet gig. I guess for now I need to keep looking and just make do with the crappy job I’m doing right now. At least, I’ll be around to do a few of my projects hear on the east coast this spring and summer if I don’t find gainful employment out west.

I also only have ~2 weeks till I can climb again and I’m getting pretty stoked about that and also slightly anxious. Back in the last week of January I partially ruptured one of my A2 pulleys and have been out of the game for 6 weeks now. The time off has really given me time to think about a lot of things and I’m really starting to realize that climbing and the life style associated with it will always be a big part of me regardless of where life takes me. I was really starting to wonder if this obsession with climbing was a little like a high school kid “falling in love” (just a phase) but I really think that it is who/what I am. I can even remember being 15 and having climbing magazines that I would flip through and wish I could learn how to climb. Unfortunately, I didn’t get the stones to just go and learn until I was 21 and in college.

One of my most memorable vacations involved climbing also, it was a family trip to Yosemite National Park. I was 16 and my parents let me go on a guided trip! I climbed at swan slab and TR’ed a 5.9 called Lena’s Lie Back. And I also remember driving in a truck with the guide, looking up at El Cap and being awe struck by this rock face that people climb, and even more in awe that the guide I was with climbed it! It seems silly now, especially that I’m confident I could climb The Nose, but that memory and the feelings that I associate with it are definitely a large part of my love for climbing. It was the same when a friend and I were at the Looking Glass in NC; although I wasn’t awe struck by the impossibility of climbing the granite dome, I was awe struck by the beauty of the surroundings. There is so much beauty left in the world and it can be inspiring, it’s just hard to find some days with all the negative events that surrounds us in daily life.

I’ve also been working on a couple of ideas on how to keep doing what I love, climbing, and yet still work. I few friends of mine were thinking about opening a climbing gym but I’m still not sold on the idea yet. I have been looking into making climbing holds and I’m pretty sure that this is a great idea. We’ll see how it goes but I’m pretty amp’d to try this the materials should come in today or tomorrow.

Finally, I started working at a local gear shop last Wednesday which is sweet and will hopefully help me get a job with BD, Petzl or another climbing company someday.

That’s pretty much everything that has been happening in my life for the last several weeks, kinda sad it isn’t more exciting…. Oh well.