In the month of February, I made more trips to tumbling bald that the past 3 years. It started with the CCC competion.
Rumbling Bald – 3 Trips in Feb
Rumbling Bouldering Comp 2018 – Van Testing
For the bouldering competition at Lake Lure, I was able to take out the new Graham Sprinter and take it for a camping test drive. KC was able to tag along for the weekend and we met up with Tim, who was working the safety crew. The competition was moved from Saturday to Sunday do to rain.
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New Years – Chattanooga 2018
For new years we decided to go to Chattanooga again, as a bunch of other Charlotte people were going there too. I had a brief layover in Charlotte, before heading out on I40 to reach Chattanooga.
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Eastern Caribbean Cruise
February came around and low and behold, I was changing jobs. The change had granted me 1 weeks’ worth of free play time in between the transition. I chartered Alexis to look up and book a cruise for anywhere during that week. She came back with a fun cruise that would travel the Eastern Caribbean.
Virginia – Natural Bridge and Grayson Highlands
Grayson Highland Ponies
I haven’t spent much time in Virginia’s Mountains, but with a birthday party to attend in Roanoke we scrambled to put together some adventures. Friday we drove up to Natural Bridge, VA and stayed at the historic Natural Bridge Cottages and aimed to end the weekend at the Grayson Highlands.
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Deep Water at the USNWC
Bouldering above Water
Luckily, I got to participate in the deepwater soloing contest at the US National Whitewater Center for Tuckfest. I didn’t find out until after a pretty stressful qualifying round the night before. Continue reading “Deep Water at the USNWC”
Bishop Climbing Trip – 2014
Bishop
Within a matter of 3 days, I had found out about a trip to Bishop and committed to leave on a flight in 2. This was one of the more impromptu trips, I had ever gone on and was happy to tag along with David B.
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Training for Climbing
Over the past 10 weeks, I have been in involved with a training program at the local rock gym (cityrock). As my session starts to wind down, I thought I’d type up a little bit of my experience with the program. Back in early March, I was pretty low-average by normal climbing standards. Bouldering, my levels were around v2 and pushing v3 max after projecting. In the gym, I didn’t do much wall climbing, but I think I could scum my way up a 5.10b but be very tired at the end of one climb.