Recently returned from Thailand, which has been experiencing horrific flooding. More than two-thirds of the country's provinces have been flooded, including significant portions of Thailand’s capital city, Bangkok. Many people have had their houses, cars, and places of employment flooded for over a month. More than 600 people have died and damages are estimated to be around $45 billion.

New Order, apart from a group that revolutionized the dance scene in the 80's, is one of the new problems we are working in the Met and I, with the excuse of a holiday week, not wanting crowds, best to recover old projects that were at the bottom of memory, and distributed among Savassona, Codol, Fussimanya, etc, etc, so it appears New Order, a problem located in the Boulder Kuek, and where hiding technique plus twelve movements, compression, namely putting the feet, where the cold is essential to know how and where two dams and boulder begins and ends...

Yup, that time of year again … here are a few of my favorite picks for under the tree! Ahhhhh the holidays. Chocolate beckons around every corner like the sirens to Ulysses (how his naked ears were tortured!) … mistletoe provides unwanted amorous opportunities … the sun sets too early and rises too late … and all that pressure to gift … (can you tell I'm in the throes of holiday shopping?)

This past weekend was packed with climbing! I spent Thursday and Friday setting for the Spot Bouldering Series Comp #3. After forerunning on Friday, I jumped on a plane to Portland, Oregon to compete in the 1st Portland Boulder Rally at The Circuit Gym. Saturday morning arrived far too early and it took a lot of warming up and a bit of ibuprofen to shake off the soreness from the previous few setting days. For the red-point round, finishing 5 hard boulders and saving my skin and energy was the primary focus. I managed...

I won’t go so far as to say that the SuperMoccs have actual super powers. But I will say that they contributed greatly to one of the best Indian Creek trips I’ve ever had. Creeksgiving 2011 (and yes, I realize that name was used by pretty much every group that made the trip to the Utah crack climbing mecca for the long holiday weekend) featured psyche, confidence, and strength that refused to be daunted by the chilly temps and cold wind. While I took plenty of falls and certainly didn’t send everything, it was a breakthrough weekend for me....

Without further claims that Met climbing and I stayed where I left to head one of the last tracks equipped for almost a year early, at 8:00 in the morning he went to pick up, we had to stop to make coffee,temperature marking the car presaged the worst "3rd danger of ice" and we only came to mind one of the last trips to Malniu, where the two had a really bad cold that to, so the prudent thing was to wait a little, while we elcafe, both think alike ready, "if it gets the sun all morning on...