Well there's your problem - it's your own dna*. Now stop contaminating the walls of the lab.

* Not to mention all the microbes living on your head.

I will have you know, we have a special "beat your head here" spot in the lab, and it is strategically positioned away from vibration-sensitive equipment and clean rooms.

(I am actually not joking, let me take a pic)

And microbial DNA is not a problem. At all. There is shit-ton of it, and it doesn't matter (again, word "shit" should be taken literally)

Drive-by posting, hey Gerkz!

Wrapping up a couple weeks back in Fayettenam. Got a few good days of climbing in this past week. Mostly trying to Get Back Into It after a long xmas of moderate tard gullies. The line I'm most psyched on is this route called Thundering Herd http://vimeo.com/96818003, which has some really cool big moves between good full pad crimps. Been putting in the time on the solo TR and got the whole crux section clean for the first time on Tues. The gear is actually not that scary.

Heading to NYC this weekend, gonna stay there for a month. Hoping to keep up with the training in the gym there. I'm not doing Manderson periodization this time around, because I really don't want to peak at a specific time. Mostly just building the bouldering power right now, then in March gonna head back to the New and do endurance, which hopefully will put me on a good place for Moonlight in April.

Oh, and if anyone wants to come to Zion and see mah book talk, April 22, bizzitichez.

why are you going to NYC for a month?

Evidently...

Another day of beating head against the wall. No progress... neither breaking the wall, nor the head. Contamination still there.

Slowly inching down from 3 out of 4, to 1 in 10, and now 1 in 30. Anybody wants to predict how long is it going to be before i get to less than 1:1000?

hello Gerks from France!

did okay at the comp, but havea lot of stuff to work on. Fell trying to make a clip, the rope went over my tool, which stayed on the wall when I fell. It broke the hold and bent my pick, thankfully I had a spare.

went to the loser's party that night. Got way too drunk, spent most of the next day hung over and trying to get food in me.

Climbed on the structure yesterday after everything was done. just went up a couple of times before we had to leave, but it was good practice. Drove through Chamonix on our way to Grenoble. Stunning.

In France now. Going drytooling today. It's going to be rad. That is awl.

Spend time with the gf. Train. Write. Eat, drink , and get fat.

hello Gerks from France!

did okay at the comp, but havea lot of stuff to work on. Fell trying to make a clip, the rope went over my tool, which stayed on the wall when I fell. It broke the hold and bent my pick, thankfully I had a spare.

went to the loser's party that night. Got way too drunk, spent most of the next day hung over and trying to get food in me.

Climbed on the structure yesterday after everything was done. just went up a couple of times before we had to leave, but it was good practice. Drove through Chamonix on our way to Grenoble. Stunning.

In France now. Going drytooling today. It's going to be rad. That is awl.

Good luck in the next comp!

I always wanted to go to Chamonix. So jealous! Someday...

Hey y'all. NE update. Been in NY for a few days so far. Took a fun ski trip up to Vermont, where my gf has been getting revenge on me for all the bad climbs I've hauled her up. Seriously, I suck at skiing and my legs hurt like hell after two days of it. We were also all set to bivy in the back of my Taco, but wussed out because of the cold (low of 0 that night), so we broke down and got a motel. I'm getting old, but winter sports are WAY more fun when you are not camping.

Other than that, been getting in good seshes at teh gym. Going to volunteer at the AAC's annual snooty black tie dinner tomorrow, and hopefully get to meet the keynote speaker Reinhold Messner! If that fails, I'll just durnkenly start yelling at rich donors about how mah campground needs money.

Hey y'all. NE update. Been in NY for a few days so far. Took a fun ski trip up to Vermont, where my gf has been getting revenge on me for all the bad climbs I've hauled her up. Seriously, I suck at skiing and my legs hurt like hell after two days of it. We were also all set to bivy in the back of my Taco, but wussed out because of the cold (low of 0 that night), so we broke down and got a motel. I'm getting old, but winter sports are WAY more fun when you are not camping.

Other than that, been getting in good seshes at teh gym. Going to volunteer at the AAC's annual snooty black tie dinner tomorrow, and hopefully get to meet the keynote speaker Reinhold Messner! If that fails, I'll just durnkenly start yelling at rich donors about how mah campground needs money.

computer ate mah post!

What kind of skiing, cross-country, or downhill? I'm really itching to ski, but I shouldn't just yet. Of course, everyone at work is talking about skiing all the time, so ugh!


And I was wondering how can you volunteer at a black tie sort of event if you don't even have a tie, let alone a black one. Anyway, take a selfie with the star speaker, or it didn't happen.

Downhill, of course. I actually do not suck at teh x-country. We're headed back up to VT for a couple more days of it this week (gf is funemployed this week, her gnu jorb starts Monday).

The dinner was rad. I took no selfies with stars, because honestly I hate being that guy. It was also very white and very moneyed. Almost seemed like Monty Python levels of an old man's club vibe. They auctioned off an old ice axe autographed by Messner for over $20k.

Still it was a pretty impressive collection of head down, ass out gully-legends, real and imagined, in one place. I ran into most of them while working the checkin counter, and tried not to cup too many balls. Here's the spraydown of names (just walk away now Jack): Dave Breshears, Steve Wunsch, John Bragg, SIR Chris Bonnington, Greg Lowe, Jeff Lowe, Largo, Messner of course, Russ Clune, Fred Beckey, Uli Steck, then the young kids DiGuilian, Jorgeson, and Caldwell. Oh, and Ted Roosevelt IV.

Also saw this one woman whose name I did not recognize, but it turns out she was the first (and still only?) person to have ever skiied the seven summits. She without a doubt had the most amazing body I have seen, ever. Evar. Karen did go all fangirl on her.

We also got a lot of booty for volunteering. Adidas was the main sponsor, and they are REALLY aggressively busting into the outdoor scene (probably goes with the 5ten purchase and what have you). They've got some super nice down jackets, but it's still weird having performance gear with the Adidas stripes on it. Erie Guardless, See Eye really needs to contact them with his Hole resume, so he can get a track suit sponsorship.

Oh, and new website that some friends put up; it's pretty funny. I linked one for you, Lena! Hehe.

http://climbingsnarc.com/