Shannon and I spent the Cinco de Mayo weekend down at Smith Rock helping out Yukon Trading Company at their annual Cinco de Marmot event. Yukon puts on the event every year for big outdoor retailer companies like REI...

My mom drove me out to Leavenworth today for the Leavenworth Mountain Associations clean-up event! There was a surprisingly good turn out for the day and I was psyched to see so many people willing to help keep one...

My mom and I headed out to Spokane for a weekend trip of climbing with some of our good local friends from the area! Ever since I was little I always wanted to climb outside in the Spokane area...

This past weekend I competed in the SCS Open Nationals at Movement Climbing + Fitness in Boulder, Co. I didn't prepare for this competition as much as I would have liked but results showed I was in pretty decent...

Today was my first day back on real rock since November, which means the first day in 2013! Kind of sad but it was a really good day! Hopefully it won't be another 4 months before I get back...

Since qualifying for Semi's was my goal for the comp, I was pretty much happy with how I was going to do no matter what. I went into day two with no expectations and high psych which to me...

The Qualification round for the ABS14 Adult Nationals was yesterday. I went out first in the running order which I believe gave me a bit of an advantage over some other competitors because all of the holds were freshly...

2013 is a new year which means new goals for climbing! I have a lot of hopeful plans for this year and I am excited to see how they unfold. Next month I am headed to Colorado...

September and October have been busy months for me! Back in September I competed in the Unified Bouldering Championships competition at Stone Gardens here in my city of Seattle. It was such an exciting step up for the PNW...

Well this update is much needed. I find it hard to update this blog because I already run two different ones and writing the same thing three different times is repetitive! I write a lot more on my other...