Sunspot and Wildcat

I went up to Upper Chaos Canyon on Saturday and Sunday. I am starting to work through the moves on Sunspot. I climbed on it with Melissa Strong who showed me her skills on the dyno at the end of Sunspot. It took me about 5 tries of pulling on looking up at the hold and then saying I'm scared, and jumping off the problem. All the while Brian was spotting me saying.. Just try this time...and as soon as I tried I did it!..kind of ...I was so surprised that my hand was wrapped around the jug and my feet were swinging back that I let go with excitement because I had not planned on what would come after I stuck it. So I am glad at my progress, and plan on going back up on Wednesday to work on it some more.

After Sunspot we hiked up to the most popular boulder in the park..the Jade boulder. I watched Brian and Jamie get very close to sending Wildcat. It was the end of the day, and still a bit warm. On one attempt Brian's hand greased off a hold and he took a very nice fall onto his back.

We had a nice hike down in the dark.

the wall that Camp built

I spent my weekend in Minneapolis being overstimulated by the cluster fuck of cars, people, humidity, and concrete. It was awesome to see my minnysota friends again, and climb on the wall that Camp built with his bare hands..the 45 that sweetly rolls into a 60. I miss that wall. I met up with Alex and Nic, and we had the whole wall to ourselves. Alex is actually climbing before her upcoming comp in Salt Lake..this is a rare event. She usually just goes and kicks ass and then goes back to baking cookies and tie dying t-shirts and tank tops. Here they are training and beating each other up.

I also had the pleasure of staying with my Emmy and Ben this weekend. They took me out and we did crazy downtown things in high heels. I love you emmalina.