What are you psyched on right now?

Waking up super early and walking to a local crag in the middle of San Francisco (yep!) and top rope soloing with a view of the city waking up.

The apocalypse 

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Climbing anything 5.6 at 40 weeks pregnant that is in short walking distance. Swan slab gully was super fun yesterday! 

Aw geez...hope they hurry up! And best wishes. ;-)

Stoked on attending nursing school in 2021. 

Also, maybe possibly climbing in the Sierras at some point during the interim. 

Hopefully settling down a little bit so I can focus on training and climbing instead of life. 

Been putting up new climbs, sending my projects and the scc climbing book has convinced me I can climb 12c right now.

the tip of my left index finger would blow open in hard crimping regularly over the past four years. this time it is healing and i am super hopeful it will be for real. having full use of my hand from everything from hard crimping to bickering on mountain project at the keyboard sounds like a dream. i am so stoked on getting back to 100% (along with nasty bouldering injury in may) and having a fun fall. 

giddyup!

The Man may have taken muh jerb, but he can never take muh stoke, bro!

I made a couple trips to the Sierra Nevada recently. I did some rock climbing, but also scrambled to the summit of Dragon Peak. I'm psyched to get in better in shape, eventually go back to the Sierra and go for bigger traverses like the Palisade and Evolution

Developing a new crag in the Tahoe area. 1 hour drive. 10 minutes on a dirt bike (or about an hour walk on a serious 4WD road). Then only a 0.5 mile / 20 minute approach. I briefly scoped it out last year. This year I've been going back and putting up lines. About 200' tall. A lot of it is slabby. But this year I realized it's got some steep/fun parts.

I love getting this thing going again. There is always psych to share! I'm excited about a boulder I found near my house that I'll be developing, trying some new projects, and seeing progress with skills (like placing gear) and hard routes. Once again, what are you psyched on right now?

I finally started to find a way to project stuff that fits how I typically like to climb. I'm almost always climbing onsight/flash, or then redo climbs I've already done, but never really found the motivation to spend week-ends working on some proj for very long. My main partner is also this way, so we don't project much.

Now instead I've decided to pick climbs that are too hard for me to link right now at crags I visit relatively often. They're open-ended - I'll often go to those crags and not even do a burn on those, if things don't fit for whatever reason. But when we're nearby, I rap on them, refine the beta etc. depending on time/context. So those are low-priority type of projects. Nonetheless, the trad one I'm pretty confident will go next season. In intensive project mode, I guess I probably could send it this fall. Maybe it'll happen, but no pressure. If it does my trad redpoint will be a letter grade higher than my sport redpoint, which is kind of funny.

I'm pretty happy of the season actually - given covid & all, I'm surprised at how much I still managed to climb, and also that I've managed to get a wider experience as a climber (more trad/multis than previous season). And then to top it off we'll start ice this winter. I don't feel like I'll be as much into ice, but then I like getting a more versatile climber, so I welcome the diversity. I guess it's also going to be like learning to climb all over again, so looking forward to that, too.

I'm psyched about the SD desert cooling off so the wife and I can go back to bouldering with no one around except for the occasional BP drone flying over head. 

I'm psyched to climb on Tahquitz asap. Probably Coffin Nail to Traitor Horn. Been hitting all my local 5.9 cracks in preparation.

Just back from City of Rocks. Ahead of the snow predicted this weekend. So glad to have gotten this trip in, first real climbing after a friend died in a climbing accident a monthish ago, and probably the last trip to COR this season. A good trip. It would have been bad to go into the cold season with his death, and not getting hands on rock for too long.

Belaying my partner on some easy but old school stuff that included some "hmmmmmm....".  :-)

I'm still psyched about my first trad leads earlier this month and excited to get back out this weekend for more. My main climbing goal at the beginning of this year was just to start leading trad. Once coronavirus hit and then persisted through the early summer, I started to lose hope and assumed I'd have to put it off until next year. I ended up climbing more than I expected, went out with a guide for an awesome long weekend of trad practice and finally worked up to leading on gear on my own with a couple easy climbs. I even enjoyed it for a moment or two :-) 

This is a huge milestone for me and I'm so so excited even though I know I still have a lot to work on, experience and strength-wise. But so many routes/areas--Washington Pass, Index classics, Squamish, Joshua Tree--that I've passed by and thought "wow that looks dope, wish I could climb that, maybe some day I can find someone to take me up it" now seem within reach in a season or two. So even though I didn't climb that hard this year, I'm super happy with the skills progress I've made and have so much to look forward to.

Topping out on Tempest tomorrow! 

Bolted something that might be permentaly dry in the pnw so hyped on it and hopefully I’m moving out next to it so my wife won’t see me till I send!

The gym! Srsly, I just went for the first time since January. So fun!

The upcoming ski mountaineering/ice climbing season :)

Right now in Switzerland its, most of the time, too cold or wet to rock climb outdoor but the snow/real cold is not completely there yet :(