my summer is consisting of a lot of work, but i get out every once in a while. i dont have internet at home now, so its much more difficult for me to upload pictures, but heres one of me from a while ago that turned out well.


this is me on moby's dick at the govenors stable outdoor competition i competed in this spring.

photo taken by josh karns

hopefully ill be posting photos more often, but we will only see what happens.

ah...the summer begins. im hard at work at the climbing wall. more like hardly working. i climb around, set problems, train, read, eat. its fairly boring, but its better than something that requires thought.

exciting climbing news though.....
i recently sent the pioneer jump! it was a very exciting thing, as i have been working on it for a while now. heres the sequence pictures.















awesome.
so thats the news for now, ill update soon again.

semesters over. and it feels great. nothing new today, just going through some old photos and sticking a couple up. enjoy.


auvid on the big pocket.


charlie on the big pocket.


drew on the big block arete.


mike on shelter from the storm, bishop, ca.


fred on great white, horspens 40, ab



and this one is of me on an unnamed problem at coopers. props to to jason from NoRope.com for this excellent picture!

should have lots more pictrues from this comming weekend.
see you on monday...

SO HERE WE ARE. the end of the semester. one more folks, and im done. today from three till im finished and thats it.
ive still got some random odds and ends to tie up and some paper work to fill out and a lawsuit to fix, but hey, who cares. its the fucking summer. and it feels great.

went to coopers with charlie and auvid yesterday and did a bunch of fun problems. heres some of the shots.



charlie on the big pocket.



auvid on the same problem



and me, again, about to fall off of coral.

what made yesterday so awesome is to see people work and succeed. auvid and charlie are relatively new commers to the sport and its great to give them insight and hints and to teach technique and to watch them finish a problem. its so rewarding.

anyways, this is what my summer is going to be like, and i love it already.

so heres whats new now...
finals are almost over, i have a summer job in town at the climbing wall, and things are going well. havent been climbing a whole lot due to work/visitors/rain, but i have been taking some pictures and im going out tdoay again. so heres a couple of pictures from the end of last month:


scott on the pocket problem.



auvid on a fun overhang problem.



me on the pocket problem.

thats about it for now.

and i suggest that everyone buy "summer teeth" by wilco. AMAZING album.