I clambered up a V4 last night.
It was kewl! Well, everyone says it's a V3 -- but that last move is deffinatley a very HARD V3 move. As Ryan, one of the Vertex employees said, you do the move by falling -- but direct your fall towards the last hold. When you get to the point where you are going to fall off the wall, move your hand to the last hold REALLY fast and stick it! It took several tries to get the timing right but I got the move.

Also got up another V3 that had been giving me problems -- and a V2 that was teensy holds. All in all it was a good but short night of climbing. Much better then Tuesday was! Tuesday I couldn't seem to complete *anything*. It sucked.

Nywase, it was great seeing Ryan out climbing -- I hardly ever see him climb and it's always fun watching the employees climb -- it's like the know what they are doing (or something like that).

It's also great to be slowly moving out of the plateu I seemed to have reached. I was at the V2 level for what seemed like ever -- finally moving on to V3's and possibly V4's. It's a good feeling!

TGIF!!!
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The Lizard
From The
Black Lagoon

Make sure you head over to Nick's site and vote for Zim so we can all enjoy the new halloween episode that is supposed to air today!!!

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Well, the results from the comp were up yesterday I guess -- I looked on the Rock Comps website but didn't see anything. However they are there now.

Congrats to Vince for getting first place in the Men's Advanced and to Rachel for getting first place in Girl's. They got 676 and 90 points respectively.

And to top it off, I won a Marmot Pack in the raffle they had. w00p!

Climbed hard tonight. Almost got a V3 that I've been working on now for two nights. Will probably get it tomorrow. Elbows hurt tho. I did manage to get up a V1 tho -- I know, I know, a measly V1. But you should have seen this thing. It was a MONSTER!! It was supposed to be a warm up. It's more like a long route that is as long as a roped climb. Also got on my first V4 -- it looked doable. Maybe when I'm a little fresher.

Anywase, if you are here looking for images they are linked in the entry below!

Enjoy
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Jason and I went and watched the climbing competition at Vertex yesterday. It was kick-ass. Nothing like watching all ranges of climbers just having fun to remind you why we climb. They had damn Good climbers all the way down to the young kids competing. It was tremendously fun to watch!

I took my camera along and Jason took his video camera. We'll put something together over the next couple weeks and offer it up for all to enjoy.

For better or worse, I uploaded all images from my camera. I figured I'd let the peoples at Vertex know so they could look 'em over and see if they wanted any for their website. Once they have done that I'll go through and make just one album out of the better pictures that are out there. For now, you can browse the images at:
Album 1
Album 2

As soon as I know more about the results I'll post 'em. They were still adding them up (by hand!! Don't they know thats what computers are for?!?) and expected to be doing that for another half hour last night.

However I had other plans for last night. Chris and Gretchen had come up to visit and go have sushi at Leo's. It was way nummy and a great way to finish out a fun day!

I'll keep ya all posted as to what we're doing with the video. for the comp!
w00p!

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