Gud thymes here. Temps just dropped into full on send mode. Mali regular progress on a couple prodges. More important, tomorrow is bridge day, when base jumpers meat bomb off the bridge for spectators all day. We always avoided it when we were weekenders, but tomorrow I'm gonna tourist the shit outa bridge day.

Thigh is recovering. Took three days off climbing and feel like a gnu man!

I gotta get back down there one of these days. I wouldn't mind another winter weekday at Riverside either.

Unlike sum ov these other gerkz, I've awlways known I kin depend on ewe.

GG- Check out the Lewis And Clark. Kind of a dive, but google maps says they have micros and fridges. It's also five blocks from our place and pretty close to downtown. Seems like you save $10/night compared to the western heritage.

Heading back to the Voo this weekend, would rather go to shelf but oh well. High of 40*, should be...sticky.

Sweet, but keep in mind that Western also give a discount if you're going to the Ice fest.

Irregardless, we all have CAA (which is AAA, but canadianized, so I'll see if we can get some discounts with that).

Are ewe telling me teh clamhed iz also a shitty belayer?

Did ewe also save a young girl from being run over by a motercycle?

Are you planning on driving in or flying in?

Does the fit have AWD?

I think Flying and renting a car.

That makes sense. Some of the rental agencies may not put snow tires on their cars, which could be useful. The road to hyalite is ordinarily maintained pretty well, but if it gets shittered by a storm, it'll take a day. I've rallied up there in 6-10 inches of new snow without too much issue in the taco.

If you do fly, you can mail shit that you don't want to take on the plane but might need. (snowshoes, stoves, etc) My address is in your PM box.

Thanks Doc. I've been pretty busy this weekend so I haven't looked at hotel rooms any more, and Nathan has been away in Wisconsin since last Wednesday so I haven't had a chance to talk stuff over with him.

I should probably define "without too much issue" as involving shovels, pine boughs, a come-a-long and a towstrap.

In other news: did a hang board session last night in the first time for a while. My rock scaling from this past season has really improved my hangboarding.

Nice. I think camhead is trying the same approach this season.

We'll see. I hate to complain, but doing nothing but climb outside presents some challenges to training. It's definitely harder to isolate specific issues of power and strength just by climbing different routes outside (general endurance is pretty easy to keep up on, just run laps on Apollo or Lactic or something). I'm finding that the key is to not just project one thing, and keep a diverse line-up of projects AND dialed lines that you get on in regular rotation.

Bridge Day was fun, but this weakend was a blur of exhaustion. Saturday the bridge was closed for the festivities, so I walked the 3 miles from camp to town, ran into the crüe, turned around and walked back across the bridge. Mass amounts of rednecks, fat people, vendors, etc. The Marines had a booth with a pullup bar, and evidently I was the only climber to compete in their pullup contest, because I set the day's record with only 21. I probably could have done more, but stopped in the middle to showboat by doing a front lever, then a one-armed lockoff to get the crowd pumped up with my other hand (this is where the pegbored champ would have beat me). But i still won, and got a free USMC tshirt for mah gloriez. Had to work at the SSS all that night, and we got so slammed that the boss just opened up bottomless Leviathan pints for all of us. Pretty buzzed by the end of the night.

Yesterday was piss cold, but Joe managed to get me to head out to the prodge at Kaymor, even though it is in the shade all day. My whole body was an ice-sickle, but the rock was pretty crisp. Managed to get the rig down to a solid one-hang, which I am incredibly psyched about. Not sure if I'll get warm enough temps in the rest of this season to fire it, though. Joe sent Slash and Burn because of course he did. Also saw Ed and a few other Clevelanders at the carg, Ed got Tony the Tiger, was pretty psyched about that.

That is awl. Doing a big ol' bbq at the campground tomorrow night; I'm going to do nothing tomorrow but man a big fricking fire and play guitar all day.

In other news: did a hang board session last night in the first time for a while. My rock scaling from this past season has really improved my hangboarding.

that's really the whole point of getting owt and climbing rocks.

I no. I am pleased to see that I'm getting some benefit from this whole rock climbing thing.

I should probably define "without too much issue" as involving shovels, pine boughs, a come-a-long and a towstrap.