Climbing Goals for 2024

Get back to taking real falls, maybe even take a certified whipper. Less TAKE TAKE 

Climb more dick wrenching mega classics!

Lead 5.8 at Devils Lake

Work through three 17 week seasons in RCTM

Climb two new to me crags

Do some multi pitch in Colorado with my daughter 

slo tawrote:

Fewer injuries is probably the biggest one. Better warmups, actually stretching and foam rolling after exertion, and being better with my PT will hopefully get me there.

With you here.  Wishing you and all us injured climbers success!

On sight a 5.12- crack

Climb a desert tower (I never have)

Redpoint 5.11+ sport route

Try bouldering again

Get back to training fingers

The one that seems the hardest to me is the 11+ sport route. I live near cracks and I have made them my priority for the last few years. Maybe Fritz will give me a pass and tell me that Indian Creek 11+ checks the box?? Either way that one feels the furthest off both mentally and physically at this point.

Cory Nwrote:

The one that seems the hardest to me is the 11+ sport route. I live near cracks and I have made them my priority for the last few years. Maybe Fritz will give me a pass and tell me that Indian Creek 11+ checks the box?? Either way that one feels the furthest off both mentally and physically at this point.

Skeletonic at Wall Street is a very low hanging fruit if your definition of sport is flexible! It’s got a few bolts and is mostly a face climb but you’ll need a cam or two as well. Go get it!

Cory Nwrote:

Maybe Fritz will give me a pass and tell me that Indian Creek 11+ checks the box?? 

Actually start training my fingers again post injury.

Anyone feel like an injury has ever given them an opportunity to learn how to climb really well? Somehow having damage to my pulleys has really given me the opportunity to focus on optimizing the rest of my body to take as much weight off my hands as possible. Super psyched to hit it with stronger fingers and hopefully put down V10 this spring! 

Fritz, I prolly gave you the idea for this thread :) 

I did 10 goals this year 

1) Stay focused on the spiritual reason on why I exist/climb/clown in the mountains 

2) avoid major injuries This year

3) hit the 80s 5.9+/5.10 on gear either (Hopefully this is a grade I can just hop on by the end of the year, even if it won't be an Onsight) 

4) V5 outdoors consistently 

5) Have a safe alpine adventure (Likely RNMP) 

6) Improve Pull Ups

7) Improve Lock offs 

8) 5.11 Onsights in gym consistently 

9) Improve OW/ Thin finger crack technique 

10) Improve passive pro vision and efficient placement  

It is a lot and I don't know if I will hit them all,  but I'm young,  stupid, have a lot of stoke and am constantly improving and growing.  

Can't wait for 2024!

Tanner Jameswrote:

Skeletonic at Wall Street is a very low hanging fruit if your definition of sport is flexible! It’s got a few bolts and is mostly a face climb but you’ll need a cam or two as well. Go get it!

As far as 11+ sport goes, I’d like it to be pure sport, technical, and face climbing. I climb a lot of crack and 11+ can down quick enough for me on gear. What I’m committing to is investing time in a weaker discipline and trying to bring it up to my crack climbing level. There is a sport crag near me with some bouldery routes that are in that range, it would be cool to send those, last time I was on them I got slapped around haha

mountainhickwrote:

Same as last year, to recover enough from leukemia to start climbing again. Didn't quite get there in '23. A good remission, but still have the disease, it is just knocked way back for now. Hope to regain enough strength and endurance again. Looks likely for 2024.

Success! Feels a bit rusty, and I am pretty wasted the day after a few pitches, but cleanly TR'ed and followed up to 5.9 at JT. 

Moving my goal post to leading easy 5.10 trad again within the year.

mountainhickwrote:

Success! Feels a bit rusty, and I am pretty wasted the day after a few pitches, but cleanly TR'ed and followed up to 5.9 at JT. 

Moving my goal post to leading easy 5.10 trad again within the year.

Yes!!!  That is awesome!

Keith Swrote:

Get back to taking real falls, maybe even take a certified whipper. Less TAKE TAKE 

Man what did I ever do to you?

Palisade Traverse and as many other CA 14ers as I can. My project is to do all 15 14ers.  My work schedule will make it take longer than I want. The traverse is a great way to knock out a third of them.

Also, a multi pitch in Yosemite. 

Develop 2 new partner relationships that feel good with at least one being a person I'm not romantic with.

Climb my first Grade V/VI and sleep at least one night on the wall

Redpoint my first 11b on gear

Remember to seek joy in my climbing, always

Practice patience, grace, and kindness

Identify and assert good, meaningful boundaries

Feel better than I have the last 2 years, which have been the hardest of my life

I've got some routes I wanna get done this year, all 5.10 and 5.11 trad: 

• Dum dee dum dum (Looking Glass, 5.10c)
• Cornflake Crack (Looking glass, 5.11-)
• The Womb (Looking Glass, 5.11-)
• Shredded Wheat (Rumbling Bald, 5.11-)
• Outer Space (Eldo, 5.10a)

I'd also love to send some V5 and V6 boulders this year. Plus, I wanna see my friends get on some excellent rigs and to make it back out to CO. 

Have fun and not get tendinitis 

I mostly just want to climb more and get some of my performance back.  This year was a light climbing year, and I notice it outside and in.  Just finished a home wall build that should help a little.  Working to put together a light-training plan to work on, too.  I'm terrible at committing to training, so I guess a goal would be to actually stick with a plan.  

My other goals are more centered around helping my son achieve some of his climbing goals: getting him up his first multi-pitch; helping him break into outside leading more; letting him mock-lead some gear routes; and just climb outside more.  

My wife has also expressed an interest in climbing for the first time in years, so helping her explore that is also on the list. 

F r i t zwrote:

Mine: 

- Complete Power Company 12-week training plan

- FA overhanging offwidth at the new "local" crag

Two down! How are 2024 goals going for everyone so far?

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mountainhickwrote:

Success! Feels a bit rusty, and I am pretty wasted the day after a few pitches, but cleanly TR'ed and followed up to 5.9 at JT. 

Moving my goal post to leading easy 5.10 trad again within the year.

Responding to Fritz, 

Progress, led my first 5.10a during remission on bolts a few days ago. Also have been TRS and LRS so as not to bog down partners. The LRS pursuit may be short lived, what a pain, it's like managing 3 ropes instead of one, tying an extra weight to your harness, limiting access to your racked gear, and wrapping a loop of rope behind your leg just as a challenge.