With spring under way, the weather has been great in Northern California, and so I’ve had the chance to climb outside more often. Over spring break, I went back to Castle Rock with some friends from home and finished...

ABS 14 open nationals was this weekend, and the whole event was very well organized and a lot of fun! In qualifiers, I flashed the first two climbs – both were fairly straightforward and gymnastic. I had a bit...

School has started up again for winter quarter, and the new climbing team has now officially formed. We held our inaugural practice this past Tuesday and had a great turn out! Over twenty students joined on the team. Everyone...

Classes have finished, and winter break is just starting. Over the past month, I’ve mostly been climbing indoors both at the gym on the Stanford campus and at Planet Granite in Sunnyvale, CA. Actually, just recently at Planet Granite,...

It has taken a little while, but I’m starting to get the hang of things at college. I’m getting better at organizing my time – that way I can climb more often! Just this past weekend, a buddy of...

Since the beginning of September, I’ve moved into my dorm at Stanford University and have begun classes. Fortunately, I have found that there are many climbers here and tons of other students that are very interested in the sport....

The past few weeks have seemed like a whirlwind adventure. During my last couple of weeks in Scotland, I mostly saw family and got a feeling of what farm work is like over there.

Since my last post, I have had lots of time to both travel and see friends before they leave for university. I went to Hawaii for a few weeks to do fieldwork for the University of California at Berkeley....

Much of this past month was filled with training in the gym, since I was finishing up all of my school stuff before graduation. I graduated Saturday, June 9th, and it was all very exciting but somewhat depressing at...