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The Best Around

I tell myself how great I am, how incredible I am, how I am the best around. Nothing’s ever gonna keep me down. I hear the title fight song in Karate Kid when Daniel-son takes on Jonny of Cobra Kai. … Continue reading

Falling Hurts

Since coming home from Europe this last spring, my climbing time has been limited. Between summer classes and work at the restaurant, I have found it hard to get out one, maybe two days a week. 12 weeks of French … Continue reading

Summer Lovin’

Whelp, it’s been a summer of purposefully not climbing much. Decided to take a proactive approach to injury prevention instead of a usual reactive stance on injury realization. Why climb in the summer heat of the sweaty ball sack that … Continue reading

On Za road. Again.

It was not the first year I had told myself that I would go to Colorado. No matter what happened, I would make it and every year, I bailed. This year when I returned to the horrendously wet and depressing … Continue reading

Limitless

Without this harmony we are as Morihei Ueshiba says – stifled; but with this harmony we can achieve greatness, we can attain our goals, we are limitless. Continue reading

greenland videos

Here are a series of videos edited by Sean Villanueva-Odriscall of our piolet d or winning expedition to Greenland last summer. enjoy!

A Circuit for you

In Squamish? Try out this circuit that covers the Easy Chair to Animal Magnetism area. This is one example of some of the circuits I made up last year for the grand wall boulders in squamish. Feel free to print … Continue reading

In Season

The winter in the Sierra was a long and wet one. While the climbing in Yosemite was less than ideal due to the heavy snow and seeping cracks I spent most of the winter and spring in Bishop – where … Continue reading

A Little Story

A while ago my phone rang and well, when my phone rings I think, do I really want to answer this. My decision would be biased free since I don’t have call display to discriminate with. It is just that … Continue reading

How to travel Poorly

There are many guide books and websites out there dedicated to providing you with all of the helpful little tips that you might need to travel around the world without spending too much money.  They advertise that they can get … Continue reading