Reblogged from beta-for-veronika  30 notes
Posted 17, May, 2013

beta-for-veronika:

nice little two finger pocket at the top

Hey! This is a video of a girl I don’t even know, but she sent a V2 in the gym and was psyched so she posted it on her blog. It wasn’t outside, it wasn’t V15, and it wasn’t anything crazy. But it’s her progression and she’s stoked! She will remember that stoke in the future when she looks back on this posting.

There are many facets to being a climber but the one thing many of us have in common is the excitement we feel with pushing ourselves and seeing improvement. I believe one becomes a “climber” when they fall in love with the movement and beauty of “climbing,” whatever that may mean to them. Plastic or stone, hobby or sport or lifetime dedication, bouldering or ropes or trad or mountains. It doesn’t matter. Climbing is such a personal thing for every individual. Who can judge another’s choice in how they decide to express that love?

beta-for-veronika, congrats on your V2. Stay psyched :)

Reblogged from unbeauvoyage  35 notes
Posted 15, May, 2013
unbeauvoyage: Nina Williams aka @sheneenagins sending Flesh Fest V10 at the Satellites! #bouldering #boulder #rockclimbing #rocklust @mountaingirls #fiveten #vxi #adidas #adidasoutdoor #asanaclimbing #asana #climbing Another great day outside! Two more classic mini-proj’s for the win at the Satellite Boulders; Turning Point and Flesh Fest. I had one prior session on these but it was freezing out… The warm weather worked to my advantage today. Good start to the springtime! :)

unbeauvoyage:

Nina Williams aka @sheneenagins sending Flesh Fest V10 at the Satellites! #bouldering #boulder #rockclimbing #rocklust @mountaingirls #fiveten #vxi #adidas #adidasoutdoor #asanaclimbing #asana #climbing

Another great day outside! Two more classic mini-proj’s for the win at the Satellite Boulders; Turning Point and Flesh Fest. I had one prior session on these but it was freezing out… The warm weather worked to my advantage today. Good start to the springtime! :)

39 notes
Posted 5, May, 2013

Topping out all three Finals problems from the Dogpatch comp! Beau, Michael O’Rourke and I decided last-minute to go to San Francisco for this and it definitely paid off. Mike and I both got first and had a blast the whole time. Plus I got to hang out with my Uncle Dave, yay!

Giant lollipop trophy = huge plus. I will be going back to this gym for sure, it is AWESOME!

Photo credit: Beau Kahler + David Yang

Reblogged from heroesclimbfind  16 notes
Posted 30, April, 2013

Sure, it’s not a big deal. We climb rocks. First world problems. But if we already acknowledge that climbing, though a trivial pursuit in the grand scheme of ‘bigger things to get pissed about,’ is what is important to us, then we all are definitely allowed to hold [climbing] symbols sacred. I suppose it’s kind of a funny dichotomy we climbers hold. We trivialize and belittle our own activity even as we design our whole lives around it. By Spenser Tang-Smith, The RV Project, about the erasure of the lighting bold on Midnight Lighting, Yosemite (F.A. Ron Kauk, chalk lighting bolt first drawn by John Bachar)