ET Roc Comp

If you live in a cave or UTAH you might not have heard about the Earth Trek's Roc Comp... For everyone else this will make much more sense. The ET Roc comp went down over the weekend and it was killer. I helped out forerunning and setting all of last week with some bad ass dudes. The turn out in the pro division was huge. The list included such names as Sharma, Robinson, Woods, Web, Pringle, Puccio, Johnson, Rands..... I am tired of typing names. I wish i had some good media to share but I don't.. Use your search skills to find some videos, guarantee you'll wish you were there.

I put this preview together awhile ago to sike some people up for the climbing season. We are really close to having the short done and it will be much better quality.. till then enjoy this thing and keep reading.

Coopers and such

The last two weekends i have spent some time at coopers rock in WV. Climbed a ton of stuff that i had done in the past and put some time into some new stuff too.. this past weekend i put up two new problems and scrubbed a third.. 1. Shadow Boxer Left (sit start on left arete and hold in center of overhang), 2. Auto Pilot (start on crash & burn and traverse right up obvious moon shaped weakness), 3. Double Digit (just past twist dah hick right before shadow boxer. face climb on the trail... climb good crimps to a side pull and two pockets on top of each other to a sloper jug.). I have media from my recent adventures along with footage from elk and other pa sandstone areas that i am working into a short.. Should have something to entertain everyone with soon.

As Promised

here is a shorty from our elk trip.. more to come soon!

PA Sandstone

Saturday we made the drive north to climb on some world class pennsylvania sandstone. The sandstone in northern PA is beautiful. It reminds me of a combination of The New, with its huge white sandstone faces and Coopers, with its house size boulders and overhanging faces. The boulders we climbed at sit on top of two ridges separated by a stream. The approach is long and steep but the effort is worth it. At the top of both ridges are house size free standing sandstone boulders. With project after project lining the hill top it can be hard to stay focused.

Our trip went really well and i was able to repeat some of the classics that were established by locals and the select few who have directions to this paradise. I was also able to put up a couple new lines that are sooo rad!! To date each ridge has about 40 - 80 established boulder problems making a grand total of around 120 total established climbs, the idea is to change that this spring. I cant wait to return. Pics and vid to come soon!

Forerunning

I got a call the other day about forerunning the earth treks roc comp... Guess I will be forerunning for the comp, 21st - 23rd. Psyched! I will be working with some bad ass mothers! Hope to see everbody there!

Ramblin Man

Climbing a lot inside. It has not broken 30 degrees outside for about two weeks. The PRG winter burn was saturday and i had a good time. Tons of strong heads showed up and it was a good time climbing with people i have not seen in a long time. This saturday i am headed to gretna to try a project and climb some classics. catch everybody on the flip

Progression

Today was my first day back climbing in the gym.. I worked on easy stuff and only tried 1 or 2 harder lines to give my shoulder a chance to reacquaint with tugging. Not much new has happened just taking it easy working on new training ideas and working on Governor Stables stuff. For those of you who don't know GS will be reopening mid winter and the work is in full swing to get things moving for a grand opening sometime in February or March.. FINGERS CROSSED.

On a side note Chet put up some new media from our trip to DIXIE awhile ago. Thanks so much Dan and Patrick for showing us around the area and keeping it really fresh finding new lines all the time! I wouldn't be the same without you guys.