What are your climbing goals for this year?

Elephant's Perch Original Beckey route.

Break into 5.10 at the Gunks
Finally climb in the Fishers (ancient art)
First wall- Moonlight Buttress in Zion
Climb some alpine-y trad in the Drakensbergs/South Africa

Climb 5.12. Started this year at barley 5.10. And I would love to take a big trip somewhere

Emmett Wynn wrote:-love seeing other climbers' goals! good thread

Agreed, it's really cool and inspiring to see what's motivating others!

Eli lines wrote:Started this year at barley 5.10

does that mean you climb 5.10 drunk??

Not get injured.
Have lots of good trips with good friends.
Be challenged but top out a few sick routes.
Explore a few places I have not seen yet.
Not get injured.
Do several new routes and a first ascent of a traverse I wanted to do for a while.
Improve as a human.
Climb a few classics I have not done yet. Another route on El Cap, maybe..
Get a better camera, take it on trips and focus on using it more often.
Not get injured.

Andrew G

Top rope yeah man

Seth Jones wrote:I'd like to do a few 5.8 clean leads and TR a 5.10 at DL. Yep, I'm a gumby.

Dude a 5.8 at DL is no joke...you may as well say you want to lead 5.10 trad in Colorado. I'm eying a few 5.6s I want to bag on lead right now, lol.

Go chamonix in July hopefully, Climb 8A (5.13b), become more efficient, get cams, climb more trad and figure out a way to crack climb with a bifurcated tendon.
Edit: Hopefully make it to semi finals in a bouldering comp this August.

My goals for this year are to "LEARN" how to climb, not just drag myself up like i have been. To get out doors more and do Trad.
I've already begun working towards these goals.
I have a 3 year plan to get myself to a point where I can climb "Lost Arrow Spire" in Yosemite. It's well outside my skill set at present, but I have 3 years to get there.

Cool thread!

-Climb 300 pitches
-Send more gear 5.12's
-Climb a few multi-pitch 5.12's
-Put up a FA in Sedona
-Complete a birthday challenge(31 pitches IAD this year!)
-Complete a >3000' day(will likely happen with the Birthday Challenge)
-Attend a Stewardship day

1. Start a thread about bolts on mountain project
2. Give beta about a route that I haven't climbed.
3. Climb at the gym with my shirt off, beanie on.
4. Upgrade all of the classics that I can't climb clean.
5. Downgrade all of the classics that I have wired.
6. Poop at the crag
7. Play shitty music loudly at the crag.
8. Bring my poorly behaved dog to the crag, and leave him off leash while I climb a popular multi pitch route on a nice weekend day.
9. Leave a TR up on a classic moderate all day long.
10. Contribute to the Eric Sloan guidebook thread. That one is key.

Thank you all for your support.

I also want to do the Original Becky at Elephants Perch. I want to do The Grand in a day. I'd like to learn about glacier travel so I can visit the Bugs in 2017. I want to do a big wall. I want to try hard on lots of routes at my onsight level. I'd like to RP more sport 12s.

I am moving back west in 2 months so it's all possible.

Hopefully send the Nose this next month. It's a dream route - one jam at a time!

Other than that staying injury-free and getting out on the rock with good friends as much as possible. Love these threads!

I'd love to be able to climb 5.10/11 on gear, I just started a few weeks ago... I'd really like to get on some multipitch routes.
And my main goal is to send my first 5.14, hopefully this fall!

As always, not to die or seriously maim myself. I have a family so really an excellent goal for myself.

Goal 1 - Figure out how to stop sucking at climbing.
Goal 2 - Knock out 20 pitches in a day on Cathedral Ledge.
Goal 3 - Spend a few weeks in the Valley in the Fall again.

Solo Panic Value (A4).. It keeps making fun of me when I walk past it on the way to the easy stuff. :(

To not kill a fool.

Get my jimmy waxed.

Look good doing my thug thizzle.

More summit, less plummet.

Word.