Climbing Goals for 2025

Get outside a lot, climb somewhere new, climb with partners that get me really tryharding and improving, get better at taking lead falls.

List of Goals for 2025! Coming off of an awesome winter trip to Thailand, hoping to roll and stay in relative climbing shape going into the spring.

- Lead Ed's Fudge Shop (5.10a) on Gear (Spring / Early Summer)
- Tick off remaining Seneca 5.6s / start 5.7s on lead
- Possible Seneca 5.8 lead by Fall?
- Travel and Climb! RRG, NRG, NC, and elsewhere.
- Tick more 5.10/5.11 sport climbs at nearby crags.
- Become a more efficient climber, focusing on technical movement + endurance gains
- Become a better learner, better teacher, and a more contagious possessor of climbing stoke. Enjoy it!

• Climb two new to me areas
• Do at least a day of multi-pitch with my daughter
• Have a blast at Red Rock with my crew in March
• Lead some 5.8s at Devil's Lake
• Stay healthy

Eric Marx wrote:

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.

Thanks, its back, just needed to get out and climb

Dan Nguyen wrote:

Climb the RNWF of Half Dome!

When, Dan? Lets meet up again and climb. Same 2025 goal.

F r i t z wrote:

With Minigote due next month, my goals may be a wee bit aspirational, but I'll try for them nonetheless.

Hey everyone, checking in now that we're a third of the way through the year. How are your 2025 goals coming along?

It's still winter conditions at this latitude for my "local" crag

- Fall in love with outdoor bouldering [pending thaw]
- Bolt and send project 1 (long pumpfest)
- Bolt and send project 2 (short 8' roof)
- Send open project (cryptic dimply vert)

Meanwhile, the board has been an unexpectedly enjoyable source of training motivation. 

- Send Tooky Shuffle before resetting to mMB2025 [incomplete]

- Set three 2025 problems that get benchmarked [four problems set, few repeats thus far. The Moonboardsession.de Mini-Comp is starting soon, so it'll be fun to set for that.]
- Build outdoor adjustable MB2017 [Pivoted to 10' roof crack machine to train for this fall's travel objectives]

In pursuit of these goals, I'm going to try to maintain a weekly regimen of 2x 90min board, 2x 30min cardio, and 1x weights. This is downgraded from my current protocol to account for Minigote. We'll see if that's a sustainable training load with a newborn ;-)

With the addition of a stairmaster in the Crimp Crib, general fitness is going well.

I hope everyone is having a great year and trying hard out there. Much love from your former dirtbag turned card-carrying trad dad!

Simple. Avoid further injuries, send an 11 every weekend, climb a 12 bolt by bolt, preferably on the first day trying. 

Congrats Fritz ! Welcome to the trad dad club. Soak in those first few months of tiny tiny baby.

Got out ice climbing with my wife a few times and the kido made it up to the top of the climbing gym wall to earn her own chalk bag!

Now still need to: rope solo a big tall thing 

get a family day climbing out side. 

hopefully wrapping up a sport bolting project(uggg) 

looking forward to a fun sierra exploring adventure as well. 

I have one goal for the year - to send Sendero Luminoso.

As a dad of two young kids I don't have much time but I plan on getting there by:

1. Strengthening my core.

2. Learning to better use my core.

3. Getting two solid training sessions in per week that deliver a deep pump.  That includes hangboard sessions, ending gym sessions with a timed Kilter board system that works me, or mileage when I climb outside.

Good luck to all of you!  And for the new dads on here - I sent my hardest route to date 6 months after my oldest was born.  

For a broad goal, I'd like to learn how to big wall climb. 

A more finite goal would be to spend a week in the Winds with good friends.