I have been competing for a long time. I have taken breaks throughout the years but I always get back to it because I enjoy it. I have always liked to have a direction or a goal to work towards. This is how I get myself motivated for the 6 months winter we have in Montreal. Comps allow me to keep training, see my weakness and it is such a good challenge. The hard part is staying injury free. I have only gotten hurt at bouldering comps. Basically, I go one comp at the time. If I am too...

I've been climbing in Clear Creek Canyon lately. The weather has been almost perfect everyday since I returned from Argentina so I've been taking advantage. Last week I spent most of my time at the New River Wall. This crag is mostly known for the classic Daniel Wood's boulder Dark Waters V13 and an older 5.13a route Sonic Youth. However, during the last couple years the wall has been revisited by Brian Kimball. He worked hard throughout the course of two? season to develop a number of classic routes that climb throughout the overhang...

This time everything was very spontaneous :-)3 days before the flight: I found out that I could go on a climbing trip two weeks earlier than I had thought.2 days before the flight: I booked a fight to Reus.22:30, the evening before the flight: I remind that I had to print the boarding card. The internet at home still wasn`t working so I drove to the Uni Bibliothek to print it there. During the check in I figured out that I forgot my passport at home, so the check in wasn`t possible.00:00: I was thinking where I could go...

Every year in Austin there is an outdoor climbing competition at Riemers Ranch and I compete almost every time. This year was fun even though the heat got up to about 90 degrees and humid. So on a Saturday morning I drove to Riemers Ranch for the comp and met up with my climbing partner Will Butcher. The comp began and we started climbing to get our five climbs in. First we warmed up on a 12a called liposuction which is a really cool line with sick stalactites all the way up the climb. Next we got on a...

Yeah, so the Red Rock Rendezvous in Vegas was over a week ago now and I’m just managing to get up a few photos from the event. So what? I’ve been preoccupied with a bunch of awesome stuff that has nothing to do with the internet, and I consider that an achievement in and of itself! After leaving Spain I was afraid being back in the desert would feel stagnant or boring, in the least I assumed I would be jonesin’ for the endless tufa grapplings of Europe. But alas I haven’t been bummed one single second. I absolutely...

I spent most of the month of March at Indian Creek, Utah. I was mostly climbing my good friends Hayden Kennedy, Jeremy Blumel, Mandoline Masse-Clark and Matt Segal. Hayden managed to complete one of the Creek's proudest projects, which he dubbed 'The Carbondale Short Bus.' On this trip we drank many 3.2 percent PBRs, got filthy dirty on obscure routes, and had a blast. I established a route I was pretty happy with. Attached is a pic that Andrew Burr took. I love new routes so much. For me, its just as much...