Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Cool Photo




A cool photo Wade David took last Spring on the Pony Keg Traverse, Eldo.





Taking time off of climbing:(

I have been trying to be good and not push my injuries too much. My left elbow tendinitis is getting better, but is still there. I have had a small bit of pain in my right bicep for the past couple of months and now it is super painful. With the economy forcing companies to lay off much of their work force, I WAS doing the work of two large guys. I by no means am a large guy and I think I may have torn my bicep. Going from sales to loading and unloading lots of doors and material has beat me down. I thought I was frustrated before with just the tendinitis, but now I am about to scream. I went to the doctor and they took Xrays to find that there were no chipped bone issues, thank god. Now they are sending me to an arm specialist to probably administer an MRI. They also have put me on work restriction that only allows me to lift no more than 10 pounds with either arm, yeah, f-ing psyched. I have done my own research on line and have concluded that my bicep must be slightly torn. Hopefully it is small enough that I don't need surgery. Without surgery, I believe recover is around 3 to 6 months. I have pretty much stopped climbing all together and probably won't climb again for at leased a month. I will try to see how the bicep feels and then and go from there. I guess I will have to get my hike on and go check out other areas of the Park that I haven't seen before.
I still want to go out with friends still and at leased hang out and take photos.

Sunday, August 2, 2009

Past vids

Here a couple of vids, one from Clear Creek and the other from South Platt Colorado.

Camp Dick Day







This summer has been brutal at work. My tendinitis is still there, but now I have torn my other arm's bicep. Now, both of my arms are wrecked and I am not too psyched about it. It has been extremely hard to work physically and climb as hard as I have in the past. This summer's climbing has been less than motivating to say the leased. I have been getting out once in a while mostly to just hang out with my wife Danielle and to just get our dog out. I have been doing some routes with Danielle and that doesn't seem to bother my tendinitis too much. I have been climbing about half as much as I am used to, but at leased I am still getting out. Routes have been kind of inspiring since they don't hurt nearly as bad as bouldering does right now. Plastic boulder is the worst by far, so I have only been trying to do plastic routes to stay in moderate shape.
Last weekend, I went up to Camp Dick with my buddy Jim in his crazy Jeep. We 4xed up the heinous road to the Omni Globe Boulder. I have talked to some folks who told me that it was not worth it to endure the hour and half hike up to the boulder. Once I saw the boulder, I about shit my pants. It is this HUGE boulder with two overhanging sides that you could still climb on in the rain. There are about a dozen problems that vary from slab to overhanging. The rock quality is bullet! I was pretty blown away at how fun all the problems were. We had gotten rained out and I thought it would be a fun place to go hang with the wife and let Peanut run around. This weekend, Danielle, Joel, Cory, and I decided to hike up to the Omni Globe. Danielle and I had plans later in the day, so we thought the park would be too much work and we really wanted to get the doggy out. It turned out to be a really fun day. I really wanted to do a couple of the V8's and a 9 that I couldn't do the last weekend because of the torrential rain. This weekend, the weather was perfect. Not a cloud in the sky and there was a great breeze that kept everything fairly dry compared to last weekend. Danielle and Cory put the beat down on "The Maxi Pad" and Joel put the beat down on "Cleaners Call". I really wanted to finish "Put Some Hair Around It" and it's variations. There is a left and a right variation that in there own right are pretty damn cool. The finish of "PSHAI" is the business for all of the variations I thought. Once I figured out the beta on the top out, all of the variations came together. I think maybe with having to do routes lately, I have gained some endurance I didn't know I had. The problems were fairly long compared to the boulder problems I like to do. The rock was very Squamishesque. All in all, the problems were really fun, but the hike is longer than the park and Evans. I think we may have hiked something like 8 miles with pads and climbing gear. My legs and arms were a bit sore, especially my bicep. A little food, beer and Ibuprofen helped me feel better. Once I find another job, I can possibly heal and maybe start bouldering without pain once again:)