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I’ve added forums for all you az climbers who are looking for a place to share info about your favorite climbing spots as well as find out about others favorite climbing spots.

I know I’ve been neglecting this site but I’ve been doing some traveling and gearing up for this years outdoor Bouldering Season.   I’m really pushing hard to be able to consistently do V4’s and get into V5’s at the gym.  Currently I can do any V3 and I’m working on getting a few V4’s down.

I have plans on doing a trip to Flagstaff to try and check out Priest Draw.  If your bored and looking for something to do I plan on driving up around 6-7 am and try to get a bit of climbing in before it gets too hot.  More then anything it is to go out there and see what I can see.  We have plans on making a big trip with a few people from AZR here in the first or second week of August.

Mike now has a job at AZR so you can prolly visit him most days you are bored.  I did get my new camera but I haven’t got any really great footage with it.  We shall see what I can come up with when we hit Priest Draw. That about does it for updates, things are well we are all improving and enjoying climbing.  I’m sure we will be getting much more content here in the coming months.

Later, Dan

FYI,

You are all invited to come climbing. I go Weds and Friday after work around 6ish. Then I go again on Sunday sometime around 3-4ish. It just depends on what is going on. Sooner rather then later Sunday’s will be replaced with outdoor climbing day and I’m hoping some of you will be interested.
If you aren’t sure how to get to AZR check out Az on the rocks site.

Also I broke down and got the Canon FS100. This should help make the recording look much better.

I took this video with my Cannon SD630 Digital Camera. It’s not the greatest quality but this should give an idea as to how the AZR routes look. I think I’m going to need to get a better camera for this stuff.

This is a pretty mean V2 at the gym. There are two big slopers that make you take your time with this problem.

This is a V0+ that is, from what I’m told more typical of the outdoor bouldering problems.

This is another V2, it rolls through an under hang and is pretty fun. I just slapped the top and came right off. There isn’t much of a grip at the top of this route….

This is a fun V1 at the gym. I do it for warm up.

SideNote:
Grats on your first V1 Mike.

Today was climbing with my Bro. We weren’t really into bouldering so we did it for about an hour then top roped for 3 more. It was good because he is getting solid at many of the basics an I am finally starting to get decent at some of the really pinchy and crimpy climbing.

The thing that struck me as amusing today as we were climbing was what people will say to try and get someone up the wall. They will yell the worst directions ever. It would be utterly confusing to any climber who didn’t know the route and was just having trouble. It’s also amusing to hear what newbies say as they are coming down off the wall after bailing out.

“I can stand on my feet but I just can’t do it on the wall”
“If I can climb a ladder I can climb this wall” *falls off after 3 holds*

Sometime next week I will hopefully be getting some video’s and pictures together and loading them up here for a bunch of climbing examples.

December 2007, my friends James and Andy introduced me to climbing. I had recently been running about 20 miles a week. As soon as I started climbing I was hooked. I stopped running and started climbing 3 times a week then after a few months I added a day of Yoga into the mix.

I climb at Az on the Rocks. It is an excellent gym with a solid amount of bouldering, top roping, lead climbing, 2 cracks, a chimney and a reverse chimney and some slab climbing. The people at this gym are awesome. Everyone is approachable and wants you to succeed and grow as a climber. Over time I managed to get my roommate and brother into climbing as well as a few friends and now all 8 of us get together at least once a week or so to climb.

The purpose of this blog is to give people a place to follow our climbing experiences as well as document our climbing experiences. I have plans of getting lead certified and getting into the swing of things before things cool down here in Arizona. Then I shall begin my forays out into the wilds of Arizona outdoor climbing.