Proudest climbing achievement of 2018?

My wife and I made it to The Valley 6 times this year in our first year making the trek. We love it! Climbed Royal Arches twice and can't wait to do it again. Thanks to the friends who stoked our fires along the way! 

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Did my 10th lap on The Nose, El Cap this past October.  Best rock climb in the world.  Shooting for 25 times before I die. 

Seeing people climbing and projecting some of the lines i was lucky to establish at Smith.. coolest feeling ever!

Great year!  Finally got up Who's Who In Outer Space.  Almost the all the big ones in the ampetheater.

Only elusive  climb  left there for me is China shop which has not really formed since about 2008 ????? We were able to do almost 2 months of van life this summer. Yea :)  made it to the Fossil gathering in COR Got to spend time in the Needles and got up a few that were on my mind. Station 13  so cool, Spire one and 3 we had not done before. The Sickle was also a really cool spicy new summit for us. In the Tetons where I have a real hard time with altitude I was stoked to get up Buck Mountain by the North East ridge and Almost get up The Snaz. We rapped at the start of P8 which is the final pitch and we were under the impression that if you do P8 you must do the involved down scramble?? Any ways the guide say you can rap from the top of P7 but it still felt like a bail.. Still a huge accomplishment for a high mileage low altitude injured 56  year old and Isa about to turn 60..  Our first time ever climbing in the East Fork of the Rosebud

Barely into year four...

This past year? Head game, for sure.

Ice, a first time, in January just ahead of my 61st birthday. Hope to repeat this winter!

Learning to top rope solo...and a first shot at it alone.

And? My first multipitch, which included getting past complete and total terror...on a 5.4.

Now? "Climber" is who I am. No matter what I happen to be doing. 

Best, Helen

Started leading trad, single and multi pitch.  Actually starting to feel like I sort of, kind of know what I'm doing.

My personal achievements seem pretty small compared to most because I’m a boulderer but I’ll keep the positive stoke alive. I cleaned and climbed multiple new problems and finally put down my project. When I first got on it I never thought it would go, not for me at least. I did it solo and a couple days later repeated with a group of buddies.
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Took a decent sized whipper on my first 5.9 trad lead!  Yay #3s.

On December 18th, I read three pages of stoke on MP, without a single snarky or rude comment!  Never thought that would happen to me.

Love this stoke.

Only got on ice a couple of times last winter. Work seems to own me. Anyway, my memorable outing was going out with a plan to get on a particular route on what turned out to be a high traffic day. Didn't get on the one we planned and similarly shut down on other routes we hoofed into.
Ended up opting for a mixed corner with questionable ice I never would have considered had I had my pick. Turned out to be a stellar climb that really expanded my view of what I am capable of.
So stoked for 2019!

Got to climb in Red Rocks and J-Tree for the first time last January. Got my first clean send of a 12a at Rumney. Finished developing some routes in the White Mountains with good friends. Finally got out to climb at Wheeler in VT (what a rad cliff!!!) 

I lived homeless in Chamonix for two months out of a 70 liter haulbag, in those months i learned many things about my self and gained some great perspective on life at home. I also got in some great climbing and almost died so surviving was quite the achievement.

I’m living through yet another round of chemo meds. Onsighted each round so far.
Only puked my brains out 6 times.
That’s my best climbing story. 

Getting on the Seal Rock rappel with my backpack and butterfly coil on my back. That was the trickiest part of the day.

My stoke for this year has been getting back into the best climbing shape of my life. I did my first outdoor V5 since 2004 back in October. I also led a .10d sort route onsight and bagged my fourth Flatiron. I’m looking forward to getting my son psyched on climbing in the near future. He’s 18-months old now.

Proudest achievements this year:
Climbing the petit grepon, the saber and the sharks tooth in 16hrs car to car.
Climbed 5.12 in indian creek
Climbed in too many new places to count 

I like threads like this. Happy to read about everyone's year.

This year I made my second trip to Squamish and sent my first 5.11 pitch there.

I visited Whitehorse and Cathedral Ledges for the first time and got to do many classics.

I sent my hardest trad climb to date in the Gunks (5.11c). 

Saw my 4.5 year old get psyched and did his first couple of outdoor climbs over spring break, and a few more routes through the summer.  And, my wife climbed on a rope for the first time in like 20 years, and first time back climbing at all since breaking her ankle 5 years ago.

Redpointed what I had planned on being my season's project on the first try of the first day.  A lowly .10c trad route, but felt pretty good to tell my belayer, "I'm planning for this to be my project so I'll at least hangdog this thing a couple times." and then find myself clipping chains.  

Did my first alpine rock route in the North Cascades, clean on-sight.  It was bolted, "Mile High Club," so I'm looking forward to tackling some "real" alpine routes next year.

Celebrated one year of crack climbing....at age 59!
Got back into sport leading, both indoors and out.
Bought a home west of Vegas and did some climbing at RR and Gun Club.
Still manage to get out to climb while helping to raise 3 of my 5 grandchildren.