Two days of epics in the Ozarks. Who would have thought so much adventure could happen in such a short amount of time? After all this was just a spur of the moment kind of thing. At least for me it was. After the Capital City Crux competition in Austin some of the Dallas crew were talking about Arkansas. I was excited about my weekend of nothing when they invited me to come with them. Going to Arkansas to test myself against that sweet sandstone sounded much more fun than doing nothing at home. After convincing...

Earlier this month I took a trip to Arkansas with some of my buddies. Not big, just a small weekend trip. The first day we went to Fred’s cave, where I fell on the last move of one inch pinch, and made a lot of progress on chunk up the deuce (both v12). Both are classic climbs. That entire cave is just a slew of incredible routes. That night it started raining and was freezing, so we ended up going to a subway to make dinner… The next day we went to Off the rails (v10) one of the...

About two months ago I went on a bouldering trip with Jake List and Aaron Nietzel to Horseshoe Canyon Ranch, in Jasper, Arkansas. Jake and I had both been there a couple years previous. We had had an excellent time and were looking forward to going back. Leading up to our trip we had some superb climbing weather in New England. Not only were we blessed with this great weather, but we were also all pysched. We all managed to climb Spectacle Illusion (V11) in Groton, NH and I climbed two V12's (a grade I hadn't done before this...