This one was taken while i was on leave from iraq with my cousin John(lousisan_climber)

i'm on an unknown sport route at horseshoe canyon, arkansas. only my second time sport climbing. making the transition from top-rope and bouldering to sport. loved it. i plan to do much more of it. pic taken by laura or josh.

i'm on an unknown sport route at horseshoe canyon, arkansas. only my second time sport climbing. making the transition from top-rope and bouldering to sport. loved it. i plan to do much more of it.

jeff's girlfriend laura climbing. she and i climbed together quite a bit that day, since we were about on the same skill level. josh and jeff being a few steps ahead of us, particularly jeff. he was really knowledgible and a lot more of a technical climber.

jeff, being a more avid climber than the rest of us, spent most of the day climbing trad routes while we sport climbed. i'm thinking in about a year i'll start heading in that direction. i want to get a lot more comfortable on sport routes first.

i met josh at petra rock gym in the early part of the summer or late spring. randomly exchanged numbers to go climbing. a while later, he called out of the blue and invited me along with him and his friends. they were all quite a bit younger than me, but climbing seems to be a fairly universal and ageless sport. i regularly climb with people half my age at the gym. pretty cool, really.

my first 5.12 lead

the rough bouldering moves after the first bolt