Hiking and Drawing

The Priest Draw that is. Although the weather is hot and Humid we still headed out to climb some roofs. Here are a few shots of Collin and Dustin on "Twister".


The other morning I did a Hike/run up Mt Humphrey. It was supposed to be an easy day for me so I Mostly hiked up and then ran down. It was only the second time I have hiked to the top of the mountain, and just like last time I was the first person of the day to summit.
It's hard to tell from the photos, but some of the burned areas are still smoking quite a bit. I guess the fire is not completely out yet. I sure hope it doesn't flare up again.

Imogene Training Continues

I haven't mentioned it in a while but the Imogene Pass Race training is continuing. I hit a snag a few weeks back when my main training run got closed and burned by the fire up on the mountain. So I decided to do some lower elevation speed training, but the worked my way back to the hills.
Yesterday morning I got up early and ran from Buffalo Park, 7000', to the top of Mt Elden, 9200'.It was a 7 mile run up and a 6 mile run down. I took a shortcut down Upper Oldam trail which was awesome! So totaling 13 miles, which is the furthest I've run for a while, it felt pretty tough because there was a lot of steep uphill sections. But it was a great training run and I think I learned a lot about how I will have to run for the race. I am looking forward to going to Colorado at the end of the month to do some real training runs up some 14er's!!

Le Petit

We've been spending a lot of time @ The Pit recently. The afternoon temperatures have been nice and conducive to climbing hard. I finally sent "Total Recall" 5.13b, and Kim is getting Very close to sending her first 13, "No Joke".
This past week though, the Monsoons have finally started rolling in during the early afternoons and ruining the rest of the day with lots of humidity, but we still are trying.
This past weekend Dustin and I got on "Terminal Vector", an old project of mine, and while it was fun the humidity prevented any sends.

Winslow Wall

We did not go far for this holiday weekend, which may not make sense to sum, but makes perfect sense to me. Before I lived in Flagstaff we would always go to Flagstaff for the Holiday weekends. The climbing here didn't get worse just because I live here now.
So Saturday we stayed very local and worked our projects @ The Pit. No sends, but several high points. Sunday however, we headed to the Winslow Wall.
We were not the only people with that idea. There was more people there than I had ever seen before. Everybody needs to quite telling their friends how good the place is or it will be impossible to climb there.
Although it was crowded and hot, Jonathan climbed very well and came away with the send of the day by onsighting "Standin on a Corner" 5.10+. Way to go J-Mo!