2011, here we go!

Not much has happened on the blogging front as of late...I´m busy wrapping up my studies, climb and train as much as possible so that I´ll be in shape on time for my Cali trip in July and, yes, there is finally a girl;) Yes, I´m no longer single! Anna is a sweet person, full of energy and a little bit of a tease which makes her, um, well, amazing! She hikes, climbs and snowboards! I´m very happy!
Sounds as if I´m living the good life right now...which is true...I do! Now there´s a catch with nearly everything in this world, in my case that´s obviously the enormous ammount of reading I´ll have to cope with. I should have read more, actually a lot more up to Christmas but somehow I need a deadline being threateningly close to shift into high gear. Well, we´ll see...the deadline definately is threateningly close now...
Something I have recently been super psyched about is the fact that my bro redid our old woody back at home...more moves, more pump, more power! It seems as if my woody clean up and decoration job did provide a much needed motivation boost! I took some old posters of him crushing and decorated the walls with them to remind him of his past glory...it seems as if it did the trick.
I spent Christmas at home, ate tons of amazing food, didn´t put on much, skied with my dad who then came to visit and had a lot of fun!
2010 ended promising and actually turned out a wholly positive year. Hopefully 2011 will continue along those lines...hopefully a warm system is gonna move through on Saturday, making some outdoor climbing possible...we got Anna new climbing shoes and those need a proper real rock break in session!
Take care,
Peace

Gorges du Tarn 2010

Birthday Poem

Vow to
rise above ignorance
actually think
think thrice before casting the first stone
rather try not to at all
make that effort
accept what you cannot change
but try to change everything else
for the better
cause contention with the status quo
just mysthifies the errors of our ways
speak up
even when you think it will go unheard
someone might be listening
and be relieved
not to be wandering alone
don´t get the impression
that life´s a chore
cause the essence of that grows your life
stale
and stale it is not
as you might know
as you might realize
if you open your eyes
to see
unbiased

It´s been a long time...

Well, sometimes things in life are making it hard to catch up with...I have thesis work to do, have enrolled for my finals, have been getting in shape lately and met tons of amazing people in the past months...it´s a shame that the person I like most is leaving in about two weeks but that´s how life is...Nothing to do about it...Mer, I´ll come and visit you next year, and damn, shit will be going down!
Why is it that American rock climbing girls are just totally badass (not afraid to take huge whippers, not afraid to lead, not bitchy about thunderstorms surprising you at the crag, not whining all the time about bolts being spaced...list goes on!) whilst that speciwoman is so hard to come by in here? If somebody feels like answering, hit me up! So after getting to know Mer I took her places (her au-pair family should have done that instead of treating her like a personal servant but that´s another story) and I hope I managed to show her a little bit of Europe! Arco, Zillertal, Franconia, Schleierwasserfall...the list of places we went reads like a sponsored climber´s travel map! About damn right! Gotta live it up!
Anyway, in the end I would rather take her on more trips, show her more places and spend more time with her...but I guess you get the point...there´s nothing I can do.

It´s been a while...

Well, it´s been some time since my last post! I´ve been busy working on my thesis and since I took a turn into a more cultural science direction, my professor felt the need to call me off. Well, that´s how it goes. I have since started to reread my material keeping linguistics a little bit more in mind and things should be on the right track by now, considering that I have a whole week off next week. The weather is shit nasty right now and the forecast not exactly promising, so I should start writing the whole thing by the end of next week at the latest!

Last weekend I spent with my family and got things done! It was a tremendously fun weekened! After an epic train ride I arrived home!
I spent my time climbing and freeriding! On Saturday I took my brother`s big mountain freeride bike for a ride and developed an addiction. I biked everyday, the whole thing peaking with my first visit to the northshore trails and ramps the guys built somewhere in the woods. Without knowing I just speed after my lil bro and all of a sudden I was facing a 5 feet drop! No time to get scared, going at 30 miles per hour! Managed the first two jumps and crashed at the third (confidence or ignorance had disappeared by that!) Didn´t do anything serious to my body though! Psyched!
Rode back with my lil bro and had a pretty awesome time!
The day after we went bouldering at the same spot that I had been to two days prior. Glees is slowly turning into one of my favorites! We had a rad day bouldering and went home all satisfied and a little shook up...the latter because I felt tempted to try a serious highball and took two pretty gnarly falls!

Today we´ll try to get the better of the weather and climb outside, even if last night was a constant downpour of rain! We´ll see!

Rope climbing season is on!

New Proj...

My new sweet compression project...very happy to have found something hard close to my home...