Hello NY

Just moved here from CO, its a long story! I dont have the internet at home so its hard for me to check MP for updates. Although with gas prices, and tolls, and fees it would be nice to find a posse to climb with and share the burden! Especially as we probably all are poor climbers. Whoever climbs trad, I cant afford the gym but maybe ill go once to meet some climbers, GIVE ME A CALL PLEASE ANYTIME! Climbing in the Dacks, or the Gunks looks sweet! Got out to the Gunks by myself last weekend and OnSited some 5.8 with some guys from MASS. It is sick how many routes with no approach right in a row!

Climbers call Mike (480) 213-4078 for partner, mostly satudays, have rack and rope and Honda! Will lead most anything to 5.9 some 5.10s pending on gear placements!

Peace and good sending to all!!

Mike

Hello NY! Again, I have found some partners now and my jonesing is starting to subside! Must work less to climb more. Maybe I should get a new job? The weather man doesnt know shit here just like everywhere else. Where are all the climbers in NY? Went to the dacks last weekend sent a lot of pitchs 8 to be exact it was sick. I never want to go to the Gunks again! I dont climb to hang out with 300 posers from NY city that dont know the meaning of real climbing. When your on the edge, climbing some really shitty rock in Sedona, or the superstitions, at your limit 3 hours in the backcountry with some shitty gear run out, or there's a lightning storm and your at 13,000 +- ft with a bunch of metal hanging on you. the lightning is so ear piercing, and vibrates the very air waves all around, and your heart starts racing and you start to pray to God, Please see me through this safely, but then you keep climbing, and the rain goes away and want to do it all over again the next day! You have to love the adventure, the spirits of the people before you weather it be Native Americans or the Legends of Climbing that first touched the very holds you are climbing on. You have to know the history from Harding, Robbins, Grandstaff, Croft, Becky, Muir, Hill to, Berthod, Potter, Trotter, and Hersey. SO many stories in such a crazy sport, like the Ray Northcut start, or the legend of Hersey and the Diamond, and it keeps going with epics you read about all the time in Alpinist. No matter how hard you climb all that matters is that you get out there, enjoy the movement, the majesty, and the intensity of this crazy sport we do. I love it! Gripped is the only way to climb! Peace and good sending to all NY!