Don't Kill The Weed

The sickest of the sick, the raddest of the rad!! Horse Shoe Canyon Ranch is the BBBOMB!

So it's been a while, haven't been motivated to write on this here bloggy thing, but a good friend sent me a little reminder letting me know it was about time.

So the last few months have been rad, lots of climbing! Most recently took a trip with some very cool hombres to HCR in Arkansas! The trip started out sort of epic, pouring rain, almost dry draining the gas tank in the middle buttfuc Arkansas, and the ability to get lost walking to car made the approach a bit hesitant, but we made it.

Upon waking the next morn we discovered a valley surrounded by more rock than at a nickelback concert ( I hate nickelback with all my soul). There were blue and orange sandstone cliff as far as the eyes could see and at the base big beautiful boulders just screaming.

After some caffeine and some food, we booked it up to the boulders and I managed to get almost too psyched, literally running to each group of peeps that were trying different boulder problems and just climbing the shit out of all of them. Sent bunches of stuff most in the v3-v5 range. Oh and did I mention it was sprinkling that morning so some of the send were wet! EPICCC

The next day we woke up sore and tired, but managed to make the trek up to the North Forty for some route climbing. Warmed up on some 7 and 8s then onsighted an 11a which the whole group, guy and girl jumped on the send train and crushed! AWESOME I swear I love watching my friends surprise themselves get psyched and send hard shit more then I actually love sending shit myself. After everyone had a successful go at that 11a we walked down to a 12a that suited me just perfect. The route started with a stone jump into slopey yet amazing pockets the continue up hard moves until you hit jugs. The its prolly 10a to the top!! Stellar I sent on my second go after falling trying to figure out the second move. The send was a bit confusing because I got really caught up in the movement and didn't pay attention as to where I was going and ended up climbing high and left to the anchors of a 5.9 then had to down climb back into the 12 unclipping along the way and finish the route correctly so basically I sent 2 routes on the same go! Shit Finished the day by flashing a classic v2 call CrackHo, which had super stellar movement! And also worked the move to 2 v7s and a hard 3 move v10 called Tang!

The next final day we woke up extremely sore, whole body hurting, but I was still extremely psyched to get back out. I had to get everyone motivated so after some peer pressure everyone was padded up and hiking back to the boulders. When we got there I was able to muster up some motivation and sent this little v5 which had one of the coolest starting moves I've ever done! (Thanks Cessie and Nathan for the collaboration on the BETA not sure if I would have figured those moves out) Then moved on to a classic 4 (which I thought was chossy) did it second go, most others in the group flashed. THENNN we discovered a new highball classic just put up the say before by some locals. After trying to figure out the start for a few minutes one of the guys who worked on the FA walked up to go for the second. He showed me the beta for the start and I flashed up to the high point jug (around 15 feet) but back off the top moves. After rest and motivation from watching the local kid send I jumped back on and climbed to the top and with a hand foot match, mantle gaston high reach I still couldn't reach the last hold and after reaching and pressing I blew off taking about a 20ft'r but great spots and pad placements kept me safe. Then we walked back over to the weekend project a v6 call Chuckwagon and to my dismay just couldn't muster up the energy and after giving it all I had could real in the dyno!! BUMMER.

Oh well we walked out packed up and headed back to BAMA. The trip was totally one to remember and we'll all vowed to return SOON!! Maybe this weekend! Pics as usual will follow. Later!