A Send

I went out climbing on saturday to a place I don't usually go to during the warmer months of the year and I redpointed my project there! Yay! I was pretty excited about it. Actually during the send the second crux(top part) felt almost easy. It felt sweet. Anyway, I made a video of me climbing it a little while ago. You can see the edit in the video where I fell (I edited the fall out so it just looks like I climbed it). Anyway, I thought now that I actually did it I would share the video. There is also a part included at the end where I break a hold and fall (that was a surprise to me!). Without further adiu, here it is:

Dharmakaya 5.12b at White Buddha from MikeG on Vimeo.

Skaha Trip

Wow, so when I started this blog I planned on posting stuff on it way more often than I have. I guess I've been getting lazy about it. Anyway, I recently went on a stellar trip to Skaha (climbing near Penticton BC). I got a bunch of climbing footage and I have made a video. I didn't get video of the coolest routes that we did unfortunately. Some of the ones that we did that I wish we got video of are Dr. Megatrip (5.11d), Bladerunner (5.12a), Assholes of August (5.9 trad crack), and some 11s at the great white wall. I did get a few things in the video though. I didn't really send anything super hard but I wasn't really trying that hard to anyway. I was more interested in just hoping on as many routes as I could. It was a blast despite the height. Here's the video:

Skaha Climbing Trip 2011 from MikeG on Vimeo.