Last weekend I had the opportunity to be on The Enormocast with Chris Kalous and Michael Logan.  If you don't know, the Enormocast is a podcast about climbing recorded and produced by Chris Kalous. Chris interviews famous people and puts together panels to talk about climbing most important issues. It's a fun podcast that helps fills the many hours we climbers spend driving from one destination to the next. The latest one, number 14, is all about climbing partners. Go to enormocast.com or iTunes to download and listen!

Here is a little sum up of how things are going in this beginning of the 2012 year. First of all, I finished my master thesis the 20 of January. Nice piece of paper on something that can be traduced as “liability for debts from the member of an association”; I can assure you that the content was as sexy as the title J.

My friends, Mirko Caballero, Dylan Myerhoffer, Matt Grossman, Cameron Reid and I wanted to climb Memorial Weekend. We figured it would be too hot for Bishop or the Pinnacles so we went to Big Chief up at Lake Tahoe. Everyone said it gets too hot at Big Chief when the sun hits it around 1:00 so we figured we had to get our climbing in the morning. But the surprise was on us - it was so cold that weekend that we hit snow driving in Friday night! Mirko was driving up from Jailhouse and they...

For the second year in a row I was able to head on up to Canada to compete within the Canadian Nationals, this year held in Montreal. Yet again the Tour De Bloc crew did an amazing job of putting together a great competition. QualifiersThe qualifying round began April 15th very early in the morning compared to most comps in the US. It took a little while for my body to get used to the early morning climb as I had just arrived just a little before midnight, from Denver, the night before. Thankfully, I...

For the past week I have been climbing in Red Rocks, Nevada enjoying the warm desert temps. The climbing here is world class and every day is a new adventure. There are so many routes here that its hard to stay focused on one route and immediately I abandoned the thought of projecting routes. Instead I focused on sending 13’s within a few tries and exploring the classic sport routes scattered around Calico Basin.

I would like to introduce the newest member of the climbing community, Brooklyn the wonder-pup! Andrew and I drove to Colorado Springs on Sunday to expand our little family. It’s only been a few days, but we are already in love with this little ball of feistiness.Today will be the first day we attempt to take out new friend climbing. I love when there are a few well-behaved dogs at the crag, but I get as annoyed as the next person when they are running on ropes, stirring up dust, and otherwise making a mess of things. Brooklyn is...