hcr is cool, and i’d be in love with the place if i lived there. in fact, the ozarks might be one of the best places in the country for tapping unclimbed rock (source: my mind).

but if i’m gonna drive a few hundred miles i’ll be taking my pads, beer, and excuses to the pens or rocktown.

1) We also had the published guidebook however it didn’t seem to offer much different compared to the dr. topo guide
2) Due to various factors including weather and the size of our group we didn’t have a lot of time to do much exploring so that admittedly skews our judgment a bit.
3) I wasn’t trying to be overly critical, just offering up the opinions based on how our trip went.

We are very psyched to go back to HCR in the near future. Hopefully we’ll see you out there.

then, post that shit right here and i will come. i will probably try to skimp on tour guide fees and demand to be “comped” for the accomidations, but upon your deathbead, at age 101, you will receive total consciousness; so you got that goin’ for you, which is nice

Sweet!

-nic

As for YKWIA… you seem to only excell at injuries and getting in over your head with thumb wrestling matches.

@YKWIA – I’m much better at piggy back rides than belaying as well…allegedly…probably…

@sweatpants — one day we will meet and you will see…victory shall be mine

@Narc — the off-road crutching and piggy-backing was not fun, ha?! You’re a much better piggy-back ride giver than spotter, so amen for that

@sweaty – Momento is one of those classic slopey rigs where it takes you (me in this case) 20 minutes to figure out how to do the 1st move because pulling harder isn’t the solution. Unfortunately I couldn’t power up for that last move pictured above!

The crimpy roof problem (Leatherface) was awesome (and felt easy for the given grade so I of course liked it).

Sick shots Narc!

Did anyone get to go bowling into that wall of inferior foam?

That would be AWESOME!

go to my old blog and search “trout” “fishing with dad” “elevenmile” and similar. behold my genetic predecessor. my dad can still rip me in half, yet he gets tired on castlewood canyon approaches.

with my horrid and increasingly rickety and sore knees, tweaky ankle, and now, my bad left shoulder and tweaked wrist, it’s getting even more difficult to motivate to climb plastic just to have a shot at projects of days past.

the only hopeful thing is that last summer was my most prolific ever and i hope to rally to get stuff done during winter commando sessions.

still, it seems to me much harder to get moving and keep moving than before and this is just the beginning of 30!

fools with full time jobs, a family, and 35 years + age are certainly the ill-est bitches out there. believe that!

To my limited knowledge none of the super hard lines from dosage 3 have been repeated, “Full Package” and “In The Zone” being the main ones?? It has been a while since I’ve watched that segment so my name recall is a bit fuzzy…

next: have the sharma lines from dosage 3, *other than* king lion and fitness, been repeated yet? just watched the segment again at 5:41 – 5:53?AM. it helped with the wake-up. it did not help with the hangboard. again, i was reduced to watching climbing footage w/ coffee in my jammies in the basement without getting a “sikk workout” i had promised myself over beverages and junkfood the night before.