I’ve been feeling a bit introspective lately, which has heavily colored my most recent trip report on the Culp-Bossier. Enjoy.

After almost four straight days of rain, I escaped the lowlands and sought refuge up on high in Estes. The plan was to climb Kor’s Flake on Saturday, and after waking up early and making the long trek out there, we arrived to find that everything was sopping wet. *sigh* So we turned tail and [...]

“Oh crap, not again.” That thought ran through my mind as the sleet started pummeling us while on the 2nd pitch of Batman and Robin (5.6). All I could think about was yet another epic in RMNP and kicked myself for not respecting how fast the clouds were moving in. Luckily, after about 10 minutes [...]

Apologies for the most likely dull entry here, but I decided that I should utilize the category feature of this blogging software, along with the fact that this is a journal of sorts. In other words, I’m going to write some short entries after climbing weekends just noting what we did and whatnot. These are [...]

Spent yesterday out at Eldo and had a great time. We warmed up on Calypso, and then I had my tricky lead of the day with the first pitch of Tagger. I’m not sure why the guidebook mentions groundfall for that because I sewed the pitch up. Up until that point, I thought there wasn’t [...]

Some weekends are longer than others, this one unexpectedly so. Everyone’s home and safe now, but I’m still not sure whether our little trip was better than work… Read the Dragon’s Tail trip report here.

I added some links to rock climbing in Peru today. You can find the information here.

Added a few lists of cracks to climb here. In other news, I’ve been feeling like shit all week. I either have salmonella or the worst lactose intolerance response ever. I sleep about four hours a night before waking up with severe abdominal pain. Gas-X helps, but only slightly. My life sucks right now.

I haven’t climbed since New Year’s due to a combination of slight burn-out, laziness, and work-related stress. And once I fall out of the groove, inertia tends to keep me out. So when Michael called me Saturday morning to see if I wanted to climb (and to let me know that the space shuttle Columbia [...]

God loves drunks and fools, and although I’m feeling dizzy, the sensation is from high altitude and not Pisco Sours. Thus, I must fall into the second category. Which, incidentally, is just fine by me, insofar as I am in at least one of the favored groups. I had known myself to be a member [...]