The weather has been absolutely awesome this past week on the Front Range. It was time to forget all other responsibility and focus on only climbing. The week kicked off with some ice climbing in RMNP with my friend Bruno and his sister. It was here second day in Colorado and her first ever day ice climbing. She kept near pace with Bruno and I on the hike up. Quite impressive! On Sunday I rested and went to work. Monday I was back at it again; I went skiing with my dad. We got a ton of turns in...

Five, four, three, two, one… Start! The words that you are saying to yourself before you place your foot on the wall and that determines what will be on your score card. The moment when you can feel your heart beating so fast that is when I know this is it. I am ready to compete. The biggest skill that I lack in climbing is the mental side. When you are at Regionals or Nationals, there is so much pressure that you have to take in and make it into energy in your body. But when you are at...

Recently, I have started climbing outside more often. The Poudre Canyon is where I’ve spending most of my time. As I get outside more often I realized that there are so many boulders which I am psyched to get on! I was a little discouraged about how I haven’t sent anything hard. Then I, realized that climbing is supposed to be fun. Over spring break, I started climbing with little or no expectations. This has really helped me enjoy climbing a lot more. Instead of climbing for the grades, I’m now climbing for fun. Climbing hard boulders is also...

A first blog:The weather is starting to warm up here in the North East and my focus is starting to shift to the next trip (Red Rocks and Utah!). However the winter here has been glorious. Winter held and produced many 40 degree, sunny, dry days. I've been taking full advantages of this: last Tuesday I was able to climb Roses and Blue Jay (V13). A first of the grade for me. After two days of previous work, it was coming down to the wire. I blew off work (not a good idea, but proved to be well...

Things are starting to thaw out here in Wyoming. Roads are getting better and easier to get places. I made a trip to Lander to meet up with my good friend Vance and to climb at nice crag called Fairfield. The near 2 mile hike mostly up hill almost killed me. I had the worst hangover and no sleep, thanks to the 80's night party the night before. After kinda getting warmed up (it averaged between 15 and 40 degrees throughout the day), we finished bolting a nice water streak. We both climbed it and named it Liquid Swords,...

Two weekends ago was the 2012 ABS13 Youth National Championships. I headed to Colorado Springs with Sidney, Chris, and Di for the competition that concludes this last bouldering season. I was really excited for this competition because this is the first year that I had fun training bouldering and felt good, too. It sounds bad to say that I've never felt good because I've placed well the last few years, but I've never felt like I was climbing my best. Because of this, I would go to nationals just hoping that I climbed my best, which should be everyone's...