Thursday, July 21, 2011

Chicago and the SBP

My sis has finally headed back to the windy city of Chicago to do another season of dancing with the dance company Luna Negra (i think that's how you spell it). Her plane left at 11:40 pm so of course my parents didn't want to drive back that late so we hit up a hotel in the area and stayed the night. My mother, being the utmost concerned with proper fitting shoes (maybe that's why i fit my climbing shoes so tight....) when shopping for shoes and Seattle. Of course I couldn't stand the thought of watching my my mother shoe shop, so I hit up one of the new gyms over in Seattle today, the new Seattle Bouldering Project. The gym is pretty cool with a wide variety of problems and a truly stunning selection of walls to climb on. The gym staff was buys working on a new selection of routs which was pretty fun to watch as they pieced together their latest masterpieces to mystify climbers. I managed to decipher a few of their sequences but there were many more that I would like to come back and try to figure out.




On another note here are some pictures of the trip that me and my sister took down to the Oregon beach.





My super cool sister being not so super cool on the car ride!



Renee climbing at the Portland Rock Gym




Renee crushing a problem at The Circuit







My big sis and I at the beach!
You can't go to the beach and not build one right? The finished castle!
and yes that is a bridge with space underneath it!


Friday, July 8, 2011

Climbing gyms! and the real thing....

Well it has now been 3 weeks since I have touched a boulder made of real rock and I am starting to feel the effects..... But I was able to climb some over this last weekend! I made a trip down to portland with my big sis and hit up a few gyms there. Any time I visit a new gym I have a hard time taking my time and within a few hours I will be toast and still trying to climb problems (ya know its a good day when you can't climb a v0 at the end of the day). After a few days of muscle thrashing my sis and I made a mad dash for the ocean where my required sand castle building was fulfilled! This weekend should be a bit more promising in the relm of real rocks as I will be spending it a mere 20 mins away from Leavenworth in Cashmere. Then on sunday Mike and I are gonna tear it up ( and avoid the rattle snakes!) in Goldbar! As always im sure that Mike will have a video of me being silly that will instatly make its way up on this blog..... (I really don't know how he always manages to get thoes pictures or videos.....)

Brian