Climbing Goals for 2025

Last year I hit my goal of 365 outdoor pitches and 12a so I gotta up the ante this year 

• 400 outdoor pitches 
• 12b sport
• 12a on gear (playing around with the idea of freeing sheer lunacy in Zion)
• Climb a route 5.10< starting with every letter of the alphabet

Get my lead head back that I unexplainably lost towards the end of the year.  No idea why.  

So, sorta new climber here and total gym gumby. Climbing is fun! 

My goals with climbing are a bit less for doing hard sport routes or trad routes or whatever, but to build skills to do harder high alpine routes and to get bigger peaks. With that in mind..

- build out my meager trad skills

- start pushing my limits a bit with some outdoor sport routes

- climb more

- tick off a bunch of the Yosemite high country traverses. 

- not doing anything to hurt myself. I've already had 2 shoulders surgeries, I don't need any more. 

Oh, and finish a 100k race I signed up for August.

RNWF

Kevin Mokracek wrote:

Get my lead head back that I unexplainably lost towards the end of the year.  No idea why.  

I've had this happen occasionally. Could be a result of other stressors in your life, so you can't tolerate the stress of climbing as well. If your cup is already almost overflowing, a climbing lead might be the thing that pushes you over the edge. If your life is currently very low stress you could absorb more. Something to consider.

In descending order of importance:

- Rehab from knee sprain + finger capsulitis

- Multipitch trad: 10-15 grade III, with 3-5 sustained 5.10; 5-10 grade IV; first grade V; no epic

- Get 5-10 new trad/alpine climbing partners

- Alpine rock: 5-10 grade III/IV, no epic

- Sports: 1st 5.13 red point

- Single pitch trad: upper 5.11 redpoint, onsight more 5.10/easy 5.11

downgrade all fo dans routes, rebolt worldwall l , climb harder then dan

Andre Chiquito wrote:

My main goal is to finally break into 5.12 sport, I've been chilling at 5.10 and 5.11 for way too long! 

To get there I want to work my two 5.12 projects more often, pull hard more often on sport, and actually use my hangboard regularly to get more time in less than bodyweight hangs! More sport cragging days and when I can't find a partner instead of lead rope soloing easy trad I want to go top rope solo hard sport.

Hoping to start strong by getting lots of days out there in January while traveling

Cheers to a great year around the corner!

Word on using that hangboard more regularly. I cannot bring myself to do it consistently. Maybe that could break me into consistent 5.10 and king of runout 5.9 territory?

-Lead the 5.10 classics at Devils Lake

-climb 5.12a sport 

-get into outdoor bouldering 

- meet more climbing friends and have fun, send hard!

West, one of your goals should be to get inducted into the Crimpers of the Purple Wave.

Eric Marx wrote:

West, one of your goals should be to get inducted into the Crimpers of the Purple Wave.

Yes I know a few of them, absolute crushers. Maybe I need to prove my worth on Stool Pigeon....lol

Echoing some previous folks - my biggest goals are climbing more outdoors and learning to lead trad. Funemployed for the next few months and want to take full advantage of living closer to outdoor climbing after having been in DC for years. 

Last year was a great climbing season and I hit my goals which were to: -climb more than any previous year (ticked 141 pitches last year, mostly sport leads) -climb/attempt ten 5.10 routes any style lead or toprope (did a fair bit more than 10 with a few 5.10b lead flashes) try some harder routes (lead attempt on a 5.11a) climb new places (went to maple canyon and plenty of new local crags) have fun and make new friends! (Had a ton of fun last year with good friends! )

So 2025 goals are staying pretty much the same!

⬜ Get serious about multi pitch.

✅ Get pregnant wife in a full body harness (prereq: get wife pregnant).

⬜ Redpoint 5.12.

Edit: updated as of 5/17/2025

Send code blue at AF. 

Send deliverance at Maple. 

Onsight levitation 29 in RR

Not get injured.

Climb the RNWF of Half Dome!

Trevr Taylr wrote:

downgrade all fo dans routes, rebolt worldwall l , climb harder then dan

The ledge community is listening and appreciates your rebolting efforts at ww1.

Eric Marx wrote:

Fritz, I think there’s some sort of biological adaptation that occurs when your child is born. Some of my best mini sessions were in the first month of my child’s life when I was consistently running on a 2-4 hours of broken sleep. Congrats again and God bless your family.

This is bizarrely true for me as well. Maybe because I was moonboarding (2019 but same difference) way more that month but still amazing given the poor sleep/recovery.  I suggest sessioning your project the day you get home from the hospital Fritz

Heal, both mentally and physically, and I really think that this will come to me through more climbing and training for climbing.

I was in Baghdad fall of '23 and got rocketed a bunch and it messed me up a bit for the last year.  Not my first deployment (actually 4th combat deployment) but first time really getting rocketed out of the blue at night.  Scared the living sh!te out of me every time.

I think that by practicing mindfulness and the calmness needed to "drop" into a route while leading, and doing my core and stretching, I will heal my low back (hurt about 3 months ago) and my mind.

But not to make this too depressing a post(!), I really hope to link up with some of the over 50 crowd around here (I'm 53 and getting weaker by the minute!) and do some climbing in the Gunks now that I live back at West Point and head to NH to visit some old climbs from my youth on Cannon and Whitehorse.

Also climb outdoors with my 16 and 18 yo kiddos who love the gym but have hardly ever climbed outside.

Climb On and have a great, safe, injury free year!