What are your climbing goals for this year?

Because aimlessly training is boring.

Here are mine:
-Lead Modern Times 5.8+ at the Gunks (I just started trad climbing this year okay!)
-Improve efficiency with swapping leads and setting up a variety of relatively comfortable anchors
-Adopt better ways to deal with fear and uncertainty while climbing - TIPS WELCOME!

Get on some big stuff. Take a few whippers on gear. Maybe sport lead a few 11s, but honestly what I'm really into right now are long multipitches.

Spend more time on Mountain Project. So far, so good.

climbing rainier with a few buddies in july

climbing the north face of lone eagle peak and hopefully some of the towers on the kasparov traverse in aug

im happy with those goals as a guy from MN with a 3 month old at home.

Get comfortable leading 12s (working hard on it now, this is definitely a year-long effort)
Establish routes in El Potrero Chico
Get ready for El Cap and other big climbs next year!

Climb The Vampire
Climb Don Juan Wall
Climb 12a

Goal 1, hone my alpine efficiency in the North Cascades with relative speed in mind, no lolly-gagging, Forbidden and Sahale in 2 days. going in June.

Goal 2- learn more about avalanches and snow patterns so I can give a go at a winter route, maybe guides ridge on Crested Butte in winter.

3- maybe get to Ouray or similar ice crag to swing some tools and gain experience with ice

Alright, lets get to work!

Lead 5.9 on gear and do some long routes at Washington Pass!

More Lumpy Ridge and Vedauwoo. Push my single and multi pitch trad leading grades up a number. Improve crack technique, and get on more wide stuff.

add a couple 11+ sends on bolts, try some more 12-

tick a couple mid-10 gear lines (been stuck at 10a for far too long!)

get a handle on basic aid climbing

don't get (more) hurt

Climb a lot of easy to moderate routes with the goal of rehabilitating nagging injuries and being able to project some cool stuff in the late season. Using the "easier" climbs to work through some persistent weaknesses - read slabs and granite in general :)

Ze Nose

Follow around users trying to reach their climbing goals.

Booty gear when they fail.

eBay.

Maybe take up calligraphy.

Onsighting 5.10 on gear regularly.
Send 12b on bolts.
Climb in the Valley.
Get a job that allows me to climb as much as possible without living in the truck...

simplyput wrote: Get a job that allows me to climb as much as possible without living in the truck...

Climb a shit load of cracks, leading on trad.

The TMC Linkup.

Tons more Valley 5.8 and 5.9's, start breaking further into 5.10a leading.

If I stay in CA, get out to the Needles, Tahquitz and Suicide Rocks.

If I relocate to CO, climb in Eldo a lot and get out to Indian Creek once or twice.

OH, and learn more skills such as escaping the belay, ascending rappel ropes, more anchor building practice, self-rescue... things that will come in handy when shit hits the fan.

- Add to my 5.8 gunks sends. Break into 5.9
- Get out to Squamish and lead Diedre, Bananna Peel and Skywalker
- Climb a bunch of 5.8/5.9 cracks at Cathedral
- Get on a bunch of 5.10+ sport routes and get a sport send solidly in the 10s. I already onsighted a 5.10a at Longstack Precipice so this seems pretty possible.
- Get out to Red Rocks and do Dark Shadows, and Birdland /or/ Get out to Joshua Tree and climb some awesome rock there.
- Become a solid 5.9+ leader on gear.

Basically I want to push my trad climbing mostly, but also my general climbing level.

Mercy the Huff, the classic 12b in the red. I know I can pull all the moves, but right now it feels like 3 stacked 11ds. In the fall I hope to get it with one or two goes.

Having a goal route makes training so much more focused for me.

-Send 12a/b sport (hopefully this weekend!)
-Not hate training in the gym as much; figure out how to train without overtraining
-Send old-school sandbaggy trad 5.8 and 5.9 in the Sandias; get way better at trad in general
-Do as much alpine stuff as possible
-Send U Notch Couloir without being terrified
-Boulder V6 outdoors

love seeing other climbers' goals! good thread

Astroman clean.
Solo a wall.
Evolution.

That'd be a righteous year.

Send 11B or c sport. Working on A's now.
Also more trad experience. 5.6's now.