Travelling...

Sitting on a train oh well you fucking bitch stop that squeaky laughter it annoys the crap outta me oh damn it is there a guy living in that tent why don´t they have a proper wellfare system in here the ghost of Tom Joad on and on Amtrak´s coffee sucks and that dude is a mofo anyway Anna I wish you were with me and I wish I wasn´t wishing but that´s all past now and I guess that´s the way life is gotta find a new princess deer can I please get some interesting wildlife I´m psyched to see Em and Beez and boulder in Boulder sounds crazy fun to me watch your money and your budget aww fuck it get a bagel damn...

off...doze off drop off nod off fall asleep wake again closer every minute takes me places and there i am so many pups and such craziness on that train fucking in dressing rooms seriously that guy was big and his girl as well how did they make it work curiosity is a strange thing...

so many pups and the smallest dessert ever cute isn´t it beer and em and taylor and more dogs and a cat cats are soothing little bitches cindy cat wakes me up and purrs like crazy bouldering boulder canyon what a fucking nightmare guy and all the nice folks saving me how great was that hunch go by hunch always trust your heart it´s true more climbing and lost again thai food with em more awesome folks and more roads onwards and forward to desert beauty, dead mice and oilrig geomagicians...

moab so rad and sandbagged as hell oh woah will I do something in here I will I do I love it get beer and hike it in fucking gnarly offroading and hell it´s not my car so watch out getting used to it amys vegan chili and cereals I can live on that coffee more coffee and hot moab girls I want tattoed girls not afraid to get dirty and still hot in Germany but then damn it I don´t know, never actually have she was checking you out so badly Austin said and I didn´t realize...

more bouldering sweet highballing breathtaking Colorado river beauty and Lily falling on her beautiful kiddy face outta sheer enthusiasm oh well little girls crying how sad is that on out to home and crazy fucking base jumpers on the way out getting duffied and pizzaed beaver creeked and then outta again and then frat house sleeping coffee out so many memories and I don´t know why I can´t write about those but it´s strange like butterflies they are memorized but too beautiful to describe actually then again they change you and that´s what matters right?

California...the first weeks...

So I´ve been in here, that is San Francisco, the Bay Area, El Cerrito, to be increasingly precise for a three weeks now and they have been rad! The season is different, I decided not to solely make this a bouldering trip but also a generally relaxing experience, so I tried to have an equal measure of bouldering at local crags, training at Bridges and going on a lot of hikes...I have so far twice hiked the coastal trail from Ocean Beach to Embarcadero which checks in at a good 14 miles, have reconnected with my sea lion friends, have been to the Bay Area Aquarium and Ocean Beach for the waves, the sound of the great Pacific Ocean...I´m having a great time! On the bouldering front I´ve been slowly uping my game recently...one day trip to Castle Rock with my good friend Austin got me some humbling experiences on slopey top outs and Tree Route, an amazing V4...hopefully I can get another Castle trip done...locally I´ve been focusing on Mortar Rock and Stoneface Park and I should be able to get all my projects there done before the end of my trip! Highlight of the trip so far beyond doubt was my reconaissance trip to the Valley and Camp 4 the past two days...I just love the Valley...it´s the most amazing place I´ve been as concerns the whole package and going there with no crowds around was even better than being there in August/September 2009...again I´m highly indebted to Austin who made the trip possible! Boulderingwise my goals were pretty clear, Chocolate Bunny at the Le Conte Memorial and another V6...Chocolate Bunny was an epic...I linked it like 10 times to the last pinch punch move...only to always slip off...when I sat down after like 25 tries I told myself this was gonna be the last go, breathed in and sent...with Austin videoing it...Yay for I-phones! The next day I got myself a video of the prolly best highball I´ve done so far, Ahwahnee Arete and then dispatched my second V6...2nd. go...in CAMP 4! I would have never expected doing a Camp 4 V6 second go...So rad! But for some reason, my early morning hike yesterday morning still beat all bouldering and taught me an important lesson...it´s just climbing and that´s just a game...in the end, we´re in this world for a finite moment of time...so open your eyes, see the beauty and realize how amazingly priviledged we are...as I did yesterday morning casually strolling from the Valley Visitor Centre back to Camp 4, with the sun kissing the Valley awake.
Here are some pics of the trip so far...