2021 Climbing Goals

Whatcha got?

In 2020 I put a comical amount of specific climbs on my goal list and didn't even attempt half of them, so this year I've pared it down a bit and bumped the grades up a bit (not evidenced by my MP to-do list). Besides those I have some general goals

• Regularly Onsight 5.10 Trad
• Regularly Onsight 5.11 Sport
• Climb a 5.11 Trad
• Climb a 5.12 Sport
• Flash a V4
• Climb a V6
• Climb a V7
• Roped FA
• 400+ Pitches Outside
• 70+ Days Outside

My MP To-do list is comically long but if anyone has any climbs in common and is in the front range and needs a partner, feel free to PM me.

free the nose

• Send five 5.12’s sport
• Get a couple V7’s, V8 would be cool
• More mileage on trad. Onsight 10’s with gear
• Send Scarface, M.C.’s Hanmer, Supercrack and Incredible Handcrack in Indian Creek
• Make a trip Joshua Tree
• SPI certification

Might be biting off more than I can chew but my big goal for 2021 is to send Verve in Boulder Canyon

I want to climb in all 50 states in 2021.  Every year I try to do 50 of something, so this fits right in.   If anyone has a suggestion of a rock to actually climb in Nebraska, I'm all ears!

Going to have a kid, so will try to transform into a boulderer mostly climbing at the gym. Quick sessions, squeezed in. Compared to big trad missions it sounds lame, but I'm psyched for the transformation to dad and Boulder bro.

Glenn Ritterwrote:

I want to climb in all 50 states in 2021.  Every year I try to do 50 of something, so this fits right in.   If anyone has a suggestion of a rock to actually climb in Nebraska, I'm all ears!

Is this even possible? What about Florida and Louisiana, or can you just climb meth addicted alligators cruising mobility scooters through the aisles of Walmart there?

In another note, I’d totally be up for something similar if I’m ever allowed back in the states again! (Disgruntled Brit here)

My goal for next year is to climb more days outside than days worked consecutively... 2020 was not a good year for climbing...

Have fun, get out as much as possible, continue climbing with my partner of 30+ years, let the wind blow through the holes in my head.

I'd be very happy with that.

- Increase my trad grade to 5.9 (currently 5.7, limited by head game)

- Get into ice climbing

- Do my first multipitch

- Break into gym 5.12s (currently can onsight 5.10s)

- All around "get better at climbing" goal

Love these threads, always get me psyched. Also feel like verbalizing my goals helps keep me accountable. Mine is pretty simple this year:

- Climb the N face of Rostrum & Astroman in “good style”. Hopefully flash but can’t be too bummed if it doesn’t go perfect.

I have a good list of ‘sub-goals’ to get there, but that’s the one that matters.

Finally send a 1000m alpine route that's beaten my partner and I back 3 years in a row now. 

Francesca Parrattwrote:

Is this even possible? What about Florida and Louisiana, 

Buy Tim Toula’s “Rock 'n' Road, 2nd: An Atlas of North American Rock Climbing Areas”

Tal Mwrote:

Whatcha got?

In 2020 I put a comical amount of specific climbs on my goal list and didn't even attempt half of them, so this year I've pared it down a bit and bumped the grades up a bit (not evidenced by my MP to-do list). Besides those I have some general goals

• Regularly Onsight 5.10 Trad
• Regularly Onsight 5.11 Sport
• Climb a 5.11 Trad
• Climb a 5.12 Sport
• Flash a V4
• Climb a V6
• Climb a V7
• Roped FA
• 400+ Pitches Outside
• 70+ Days Outside

My MP To-do list is comically long but if anyone has any climbs in common and is in the front range and needs a partner, feel free to PM me.

I've got the exact same goals except for bouldering, I want to climb just a V5. 

I also want to do more long harder (for me) adventury trad routes:

• Casual Route on the Diamond
• Scenic Cruise in the Black Canyon
• Rainbow Traverse on Mount Evans
• Northwest Buttress on Capital Peak

And some easy fun scrambles like:

• Wham Ridge on Vestal Peak
• Zodiac Traverse

Bolt some new routes in the middle of nowhere.

#1 finish the van build

#2 break into 5.12 sport

#3 break into 5.11 trad

#4 increase multipitch efficiency

Making it through these awful times OK, same for my family and friends, then being able to climb---ANYTHING, again--and then go out for a beer or 2 with a group of friends.

Tal Mwrote:

• Regularly Onsight 5.10 Trad
• Regularly Onsight 5.11 Sport

Last season was the first time I tried similar objectives. E.g. an "regular" onsight grade. I personally defined it as greater than coin flip odds I'll onsight. I feel it really helped me view my objectives in a different way and I really like the feel it gave my season - projects were everywhere!. I'm going to use that again next season.

For my part:

• Redpoint Entrée Libre, 5.12b trad at a local-ish crag
• coin-flip odds or better onsighting 11- (trad)
• redpoint all 11- onsight attempts that failed (trad)
• project (on lead) a few 11+ trad
• Be bolder wrt to multipitches, e.g. try stuff where I'm less sure of route et hone those route-finding skills
• Be more efficient rapping multiple pitches (the metric for which would be ~predictable times for that, which is NOT the case at the moment)
• Get a too hard for me sport project, 12+ or maybe even 13- if I'm feeling bold, and get that moving as an open-ended multi-season project

I like this thread, good to see what other folks are working on and get some cool perspective 

• Start to lead WI4
• Get confident on cathedral ledge 5.10
• A few 5.11 trad leads
• 5.12 sport
• Practice more aid, hauling, jugging, general big wall skills
• Bring an ironing board onto the finger of Walk the Plank
• The Chimney on Katahdin this winter (Chauvin-Cole as well depending on conditions and whatnot)
• Moby Grape, VMC dd, Vertigo, and (Follow!) the Black Dike
• Pinnacle Gully
• The Mordor Wall

The list goes on and on obviously but this is the real meat and potatoes

I can't set any goals, but hope to be able to climb again.

Last year my goals were all grade based, which COVId sorta effed but I was able to meet some. This year I'm focusing on experience over grades:

Bag my first Utah Desert tower

Boulder in Leavenworth 

More trad leads

Project hard (for me) sport more often

Send V5

Get back to Tahquitz (I was on blood thinners most of the year, so I stayed away from trad)

Get stronger (so much stopping and starting with the breaks and no gym, plus some health issue)

Have fun

Don't get hurt