-Climb more trad.
-Visit more areas I've never been to. (Tetons, Sawtooths, Sweetwater Rocks...)
-Get in better cardio shape so I can actually enjoy alpine routes.
-Expand the number of people I climb with.
-Check out more of the bouldering at Devil's Head.
-Increase my onsight level by two letters.
-Go easier on myself when I have an "off day".

This year, and all of the ones after it I will
-have more fun than the previous year.

2010 will be the first full year as a climber. In this year, I will try to :

- try to do as many single-day or overnight trips to the rocks in Southern Belgium as possible.
- spend all my free weekends in Fontainebleau, or some place similar
- go on at least one longer climbing vacation
- improve my general technique, fitness, endurance through regular climbing in the gym and some extra exercises at home
- buy and read SCC and turn it into practice
- enjoy all the above

• Climb more

• Climb in more places

• Lead a 5.11

• Lead a bunch of 5.9s at the gunks

• Climb more

• Write a climbing article

• Train more and train harder

• Make 2 climbing trips before may

• Not be such a scaredy pants and push it to the limit

• Climb more

I love New Year's resolutions, it feels like you're starting with a clean slate and anything is possible.

-Climb 200+ days outside (I'm 1 for 1 starting today!)
-Get fit and train hard
-Do an El Cap route (other than Nose and Salathe) in a day
-Solo an El Cap route
-Plenty of BIG days (12+ hours of climbing)
-Take more photos
-Be safe and have fun (in that order)

Good Luck and Happy New Year,
Scott

• Finish school, so I have time to climb more
• Get back into climbing shape
• Mount a hang board in my house (I got a nice wooden one for X-Mas)
• Climb outside the U.S. (I’ve got a Banff and Bugaboos trip planned this summer)
• Feel good leading 5.7 Trad again, instead of backing down, getting scared, then doing the move and feeling like a jerk because it was so easy.
• Make the time for a longer alpine climb in RMNP
• Go to Moab to climb instead of mountain biking

• Be more productive by spending less time looking at stuff on MP and climbing more.

• Achieve a higher state of consciousness and be more present in the moment. Running it out should help with that.

• Manage my time better by speeding up transitions at anchors.

• Lose a few pounds by putting my rack on a diet.

• Travel more.

• Get stronger. Should I reconsider my contempt for gyms?

• Eat a better diet by drinking more apres-climbing beers and fewer sandwiches (clif bars on the wall are the way to go.)

• Take more pictures.

• Get more organized; I want a different gear sling.

• Spend more time with family and friends. Anybody want to rope up?

my goals:

1. Get better at projecting
2. Be more methodical about my big list of roof cracks
3. Spend less time on the internet

Post up a (potentially tasteless) trip report on some obscure climb.

Climb like The Dude bowls, man.

1.) Lead more, follow less
2.) Buy more trad gear (and practice/use it, see #1)
3.) Stop getting nagging injuries - esp. elbow tendonitis...more rest days and more icing after climbing
3.5) More endurance only days at climbing gym, fewer 'hard' days
4.) Climb more!

Not a Tick List? Hmmm...

In that case:

1. Not fall off of the last move of problems that have been on my To-Do list for the last 5 years. :)

Falling off of Evilution, 12/28/09 Submitted By: Peter Franzen on Jan 4, 2010

Climb in the Valley for the first time.

So, how'd everyone do on their goals? For me it was a good climbing year, despite not really ticking much off the list. I expected to be stuck at home for the year, so my goals revolved around cragging. I ended up with the opportunity to spend a few weeks in the Yosemite high country this summer, so that significantly changed my focus. I spent more time getting milage and increasing overall fitness than focusing on single hard pitches.

To recap, here were my goals:

•incorporate some form of injury prevention workout into my climbing schedule.
•do more cardio than just hauling too much gear to the crag
•continue to improve my offwidth skills (metric: lead at least 1 5.10 OW at Vedauwoo--Mainstreet, Left Torpedo Tube; or something similar at the Creek--Big Guy, etc.)
•lead Country Club as one pitch without falling off in the last 10 feet (again).
•climb the Diamond via a route on the Lower East Face rather than approaching via the N Chimney or Chasm View
•lead the Vertigo roof pitch without falling
•do another desert tower (Vision Quest, Lightning Bolt Cracks, Fine Jade, or Jah Man are all high on the list)

4 out of 7 isn't bad.

I have incorporated injury prevention exercises into my climbing week, and do occasional cardio (but could stand to do a lot more). My road trip flared up some ligament tweaks and tendonitis, and I have devoted the Fall to calming these down.

At the beginning of the year I was putting some time into the OW skills. I suffered up Mainstreet on TR and realized I'm still a ways off from leading it. Maybe next year. However the time I spent improving my OW skills made it possible for me to climb some 5.8 OW sections without any big gear while adding a few new pitches to the Incredible Hulk. Not something I could have foreseen at the beginning of the year, but an accomplishment I'm psyched about.

Country Club, the Diamond, and Vertigo didn't really end up being much of a focus for the year.

They are at the top of the list for next year though. I'll probably start a 2011 goals thread for that discussion though...

How was your year?

-Rich

I had a very bad 2010. Lots of personal losses plus health issues. I was in denial and tried to organize new partners but ended up no-showing. All I want for 2011 is to re-connect and get back at it.

Thanks for that Rich and Scott. I wasn't expecting sympathy out of the blue like that, it's a nice feeling. Cheers!

• I mamaged to quit whining about my knee or letting it hold me back. However, late this year I substituted that for a broken wrist, rather than cry about it, I ran races for a few weeks and even won one. Then I sprained my ankle and tore a muscle in my abs. I climbed with the splint/cast on. Again, in 2011 I want to climb beyond those injuries. New year, new injuries, new healing and head-space to regain in 2011.

• I got back down from 172lbs to 161 just before Xmas... then went to the midworst for a week of bad weather and got 4 of it back since then... so now I've got the stuff I gained to loose again- it's re-doable in 2011. 157 lbs would be perfect for me.

• I made it to Devil's Head (OK, but not a destination) and back to Shelf Road for only the second time in 16 years (also OK but also not a destination). I climbed at some new areas in the Grand Junction area. Maybe I'll do another new one in 2011.

• I made it back to Jtree for the first time in a few years. I'd intended to stop some place new on the way there or back, but weather conspired wickedly otherwise and it didn't happen. OK, same goal for 2011.

• ** My stretch goal was to recover my knee significantly enough to climb alpine again and maybe ski. I have concluded that I'll never ski again, but I did make it up several alpine routes this season and carried my own pack on the approach. That's 1/2 of the stretch goal made. I guess in 2011 I want to continue that, but it's not a goal anymore because it has reached a conclusion can climb alpine routes, can't ski.