I can't believe the weird chilly weather we are having this year. Several times in the past couple weeks it was too chilly for pool, at the height of a sunny day.

My tomato plants are full of green tomatoes, just sitting there, trying to figure out if they could maybe still ripen, or maybe it is October already, and they will be picked green any day.

Cantaloupes and honeydews just say, WTF, as they look at me from between the leaves.

Come on, summer!

In other news, I went out climbing last night. The fellow I was with is kinda newer to leading and he death gripped and took a couple of good falls, but I still needed to finish off the route and clean the draws for him.

Climbing that route a few times took more out of me than it really should have, and by the time I hopped on my project there I didn't do much more than bolt to bolt it. I felt really tired at the time trial on Wednesday night too. I'm taking today off as a rest day and plan to go to bed early tonight so hopefully I'll recover and climb pretty okay this weekend.

you're probibly tiring yourself out with all the cross-training.

I was going to say the same thing. But as long as it is what you want to do... Seems like the biking is really pulling you in.

Hope the rest day helps.

you're probibly tiring yourself out with all the cross-training.

How's the knee?

And NO to more summer. It's been unseasonably tolerable here for the past few weeks.

you're probibly tiring yourself out with all the cross-training.

Hey gerks! Got to Yewtah, and am enjoying the break from Dubbya Vee. Picked up the gf, who is taking a quick layover here after attempting Rainier and before heading back to Gnu York. She didn't summit, they got turned back by a bunch of hail and lightning storms. So I tried to console her with some dummy-dome summits at City of Rocks. Gawddamn, that place is amazing. We did a bunch of the classics, but no hard sends, due to the fact that City routes in the one two range and up get pretty sandbagged. Managed a sketchy onsight of this 11 mixed route called Beware of Nesting Egos, which was amazing. Got back on this hard bolted carck I'd been on once a few years ago called Bombs Over Tripoli, and almost zent, but fell at the top. Granite is still a foreign language!

Hey gerks! Got to Yewtah, and am enjoying the break from Dubbya Vee. Picked up the gf, who is taking a quick layover here after attempting Rainier and before heading back to Gnu York. She didn't summit, they got turned back by a bunch of hail and lightning storms. So I tried to console her with some dummy-dome summits at City of Rocks. Gawddamn, that place is amazing. We did a bunch of the classics, but no hard sends, due to the fact that City routes in the one two range and up get pretty sandbagged. Managed a sketchy onsight of this 11 mixed route called Beware of Nesting Egos, which was amazing. Got back on this hard bolted carck I'd been on once a few years ago called Bombs Over Tripoli, and almost zent, but fell at the top. Granite is still a foreign language!

Nice. I think the City might be one of the funniest places to climb. Totally beautiful, amazing camping, f
Terrific routes in all grade ranges. Nesting egos is the one thing on my list I didn't get to try on my trip there, it looked so good on that upper head wall. The last day I was freezing or something and I didn't want to try it numb. Next time.

The city is like the best parts of jtree and bishop put together.

Was supposed to do a full day out today but my partner called yesterday and is leaving on a last minute trip to the Fins tomorrow. Bouldering instead today. Jealous bouldering.

Hey gerks! Got to Yewtah, and am enjoying the break from Dubbya Vee. Picked up the gf, who is taking a quick layover here after attempting Rainier and before heading back to Gnu York. She didn't summit, they got turned back by a bunch of hail and lightning storms. So I tried to console her with some dummy-dome summits at City of Rocks. Gawddamn, that place is amazing. We did a bunch of the classics, but no hard sends, due to the fact that City routes in the one two range and up get pretty sandbagged. Managed a sketchy onsight of this 11 mixed route called Beware of Nesting Egos, which was amazing. Got back on this hard bolted carck I'd been on once a few years ago called Bombs Over Tripoli, and almost zent, but fell at the top. Granite is still a foreign language!

Is jelus bouldering anything like hate sects or sad masturbation?

Only one-two's and up are sandbagged? That doesn't make any sense at all. But sure, if you say so.

Your formula for determining what kind of climber you are (one number grade below the lowest-grade route that you fell on, in the past 6 months) is making Ed pretty sad at the moment.

He went on his first trip since he broke his ankle and busted his knee in February. So really, his last outdoor trip was in November of last year... His ideas of what he would climb this weekend got brutally ruined by reality of some crappy new route at the Meadow's second buttress. He got on it thinking that it was 5.9 ,but it was a 10c, and not in the guidebook...

And now he is contemplating taking up other sport, such as competitive eating, or endurance floating.

Yurp. Read the Mandersons, cross-training is counter-productive.

Well, maybe I am just really bad at technical slabbaneering, but yes, the one twos at CoR felt pretty sandbagged. The lower-graded tard routes are arguably a bit soft by NRG or Gunks standards; I had to stop myself from committing the Gunks cliche on many of the moderate carcks like Skyline, this 5.8 that was so juggy it may as well have been 5.6.

And just tell Ed to be VERY skeptical of those routes at the Meadow. Rudaw's just have a very high chance of being both shitty, weird, and hard to read because they take such stupid lines.

I like the sound of "endurance floating," though, hehe. Going to have to use that for all the damned SUPers in Fayettenam.

I like biking.

I contemplated another reason why I might be so low energy. Nathan has been complaining that my breath has been "off" (not "bad" persay, but not right either). My bowls haven't returned to normal after the crazy antibiotics I took for my kidney infection either. I concluded that both have probably been caused by belly bacteria issues from the antibiotics.

I poked around online to make sure the breath thing could be related to belly bacteria and came across a couple of places that talked about B vitamin intake being effected by antibiotics because you need certain belly bacteria to process them properly.


Regardless if this is the reason for my low energy last week or not, I bought another package of probiotics to try to get things back on track. Since this incident I have decided that antibiotics are scary (even if they stop my kidneys from hurting).