Photos by wendigogo

i'm on an unknown sport route at horseshoe canyon, arkansas. only my second time sport climbing. making the transition from top-rope and bouldering to sport. loved it. i plan to do much more of it. pic taken by laura or josh.

i'm on an unknown sport route at horseshoe canyon, arkansas. only my second time sport climbing. making the transition from top-rope and bouldering to sport. loved it. i plan to do much more of it.

top rope climbing boston rag, white trash wall. it's a fun little climb, harder to start than finish. also fun to try alternate starts, slightly left of the crack, on the face. makes it a lot more difficult. the pic is me, shot by my friend jonny.

5.9 climb with a 5.10 top out? and an alternative 5.11 start? not sure about that one, just what i heard. a really fun, slightly overhanging route. climbed it twice that day, just for grins. pic of me, shot by jonny. belayed by theron.

working the crack on albino rhino. a fairly easy, but fun, 5.7. i think it was the last route of the day. finishing off a pretty mellow day of climbing (5 routes, climbed multiple times with alt. starts). the second of two routes i did the set up on, white trash being the first. my friend theron showed me how to set up top-ropes that day. pic taken by jonny, belayed by theron.

theron on top of sam's, setting up a warm up route called fun way. the farm in the valley visible behind him. it's one of my favorite views in arkansas. alsways puts me in a happy place...

jeff's girlfriend laura climbing. she and i climbed together quite a bit that day, since we were about on the same skill level. josh and jeff being a few steps ahead of us, particularly jeff. he was really knowledgible and a lot more of a technical climber.

jeff, being a more avid climber than the rest of us, spent most of the day climbing trad routes while we sport climbed. i'm thinking in about a year i'll start heading in that direction. i want to get a lot more comfortable on sport routes first.

i met josh at petra rock gym in the early part of the summer or late spring. randomly exchanged numbers to go climbing. a while later, he called out of the blue and invited me along with him and his friends. they were all quite a bit younger than me, but climbing seems to be a fairly universal and ageless sport. i regularly climb with people half my age at the gym. pretty cool, really.