The trip was fun. The highlight was of course the two and a half days of climbing at Red Rock. Alas, we didn’t experience a variety of climbs – when we got there we found the majority of the intermediate routes (5.9, 5.10a) were lead-only routes with bolts at least 15 feet apart, requiring [...] » Read more

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I am climbing in Red Rock and hiking in Zion or Joshua Tree over the next week. If nothing is heard from me ever again, it’s because I’ve fallen off a multipitch route while trying to rappel for the first time ever. If that happens maybe some glamorous CSI person in Vegas will [...] » Read more

During climbing on Sunday I was hauled up a 5.10b, then attempted four clean 5.10a routes in a row (topping out on two, almost finishing the other two). Finished up on a 5.9. Then ached for two solid days. But it was a good ache. Met Jan the realtor today. Things went well, [...] » Read more

Yeah, that’s all I do – haul ass without any style. More pictures from last week in Skaha. [...] » Read more

I’ve still been somewhat in crunch mode for software release over the last week. This is not all bad, because most of the work been interesting, but it also meant I was at the office Saturday and was pretty busy all of last week. So it’ll be just two observations today, both related to [...] » Read more

Been a while, for which I can blame being busy with work, having some computer downtime, and find other more recreational things to do. Work for the last couple of weeks has mainly been dealing with the pending software release. That’s really it in a nutshell, but as they say the devil’s in [...] » Read more