Sierra Sleet

We made it to Bishop after a long haul drive from El Paso. The weather has closed out so we have taken shelter in a dicey hotel room with no locks on the windows and matresses that look like someone died on them. Hopefully the clouds will part and we can get back out on the rock. The bakery next door is causing dietary problems, luckily we ran into our friends from Innsbruck who are now cooking as cake for breakfast to add some variety to our diets.

Last Days of Hueco Tanks

3 weeks at Hueco has left us totally stripped of energy. We are nubbins of our former selves but this leg of the trip has been a successful one. Today Will nailed project #1 Dirty Martini V9, and over the last few weeks has been climbing strong ticking off some classic hard problems showing huge gains since his last visit to the park. He was seen boarding the send train last week and he doesn't look like stepping off it any time soon. Teegan has made quick ascents of Better Eat Your wheaties V8, Sex After Death v8, Daily Dick Dose V7 and a host of others and is currently eyeing off several harder projects. Chris has been having an adventure into the double digits since day 1. I managed to film his quick ascents of Esperanza v14, Slashface v13, Barefoot on Sacred Ground v12, Platonique v12, a flash of Diaphanous Sea v12, Skid Mark v11, Power of Landjager v11, and Loaded with Power v10, about half of what he has climbed in the park so far. It will be edited and combined with the footage from Bishop we will get over the next month.

The nuances and pitfalls of the video format, camera, lighting conditions, dust, chalk and most of all editing software and soundtrack sourcing have issued me a severe learning curve but I'm going to keep slugging away over the next few months and see if i can get on top of it.

When the scenery looks like it did on North Mountain today you really can't complain.

The climb pics are coming, just hold on