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the crankmuffin conspiracy
Climbing nuggets need a name, so I took action: Thanks for your definition of crankmuffin! There’s one more step: click this link to review and confirm the definition....
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off to a good start
Day 2 of Owl Tor season was also my second day of the year on Better Than Life. I basically did what I wanted to, which was climb from the ground to the hueco at the fifth bolt. I’ve got my eye on...
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commence Operation Don’t Suck
I’m back from a one week trip to Henderson, Nevada for my bi-yearly commitment to bettering myself professionally, namely the CCIE written exam, and I’m fully focused now on the coming summer’s...
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the first day of the rest of my life
Saturday was my first day of the season on Strictly Ballroom. She’s still an angry route. So much anger. Things went OK though, I think. I expected it to be hard. My biggest concern at this point is...
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the week in training
My spring climbing season is going approximately as planned. I’m campusing decently, bouldering sufficiently and have managed to put in a few good days on Strictly. Saturday was my sixth day of the...
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6 million ways to die
We are merely visitors to Owl Tor, but these bastards keep it real. They’re there all day. They’re there right now. And I know when I’m in the mood to have my face ripped off, they’re available. They...
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Jews and Gentiles agree: legs suck and campusing is rad
It’s been about a year since the last time I posted anything to my blog. Not that I’ve had nothing to write about; it’s that I started this new job and I believe my boss has no soul. Actually, I know...
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things (and stuff)
I didn’t have super great video of Micah campusing when I posted the last time, which was a shame because he was campusing way hard. Now that he’s laid up in the hospital again he’s found time to...
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rOcktober
I suck at poker because I never play. So I suppose I can’t say for sure that I suck at poker. But anything one can be good at without practicing is stupid. Although, I can think of stuff that’s stupid...
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Keeping with this crankenstein.com theme I’m trying out a new method of video delivery – an inappropriately complex and compulsively robust technique that’s fully rad. Behold: vid here me on Better...
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It comes with its own brief case.
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injuring things I didn’t know I had
Apparently I have a thing called a sternoclavicular joint. And it’s pissed. At the junction of a sternum and a clavicle there exists a joint. update: It’s much better now.
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Tuesday at Rattlesnake Canyon
I met up with Bernd and Andy for a toss on Andy’s Trebuchet after work on Tuesday. It was good stuff.
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ORG – November 2013
‘Sex’ follows the bulging wall leaning in from the right. My intention for a 3-day climbing trip to Owens River Gorge was to flash 5.12′s. That didn’t happen. After an epic battle on a 12b to turn what...
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No and Then
Inspired by one of my generation’s iconic celluloid gems this post’s title is appropriate as I tried to parlay my send of Gala Gala Happy into Strictly Ballroom. But there has bees no and then....
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Skin has been an issue this season. I believe a fairy princess switched skin with me while I was sleeping. Alternatively, I could be convinced a diabolical pediatric surgeon grafted fresh foreskin onto...
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infinitesimal progress
One little pull… …and we got a bleeder. Strictly Ballroom got a little closer to becoming a finished project after Saturday’s session at Owl Tor. I hit the mono move off the dog (I love saying that),...
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first tick
Phil belaying Antonio on No Skill 12c Phil on the start to Terrible Angel (8c?) Phil claims the first tick of the season. Antonio and/or Arthur had claimed first tick, I think, a couple months back but...
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