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12/8/03
well the final triple crown competition happened this weekend at horsepens 40. the temps were awesome and the rock was dry, perfect for some sick sends. lots of hard stuff went down. and in the end Andrew Trailer came out on top of the guys standings and Anna Burgos won the womens. Second place for the guys was Jeremy Watson and third went to Matt Bosley, but Bosley did place first overall in the whole Triple Crown standings. i shot quite i few pictures and hopefully i will have those up by the end of the week. i personally didn't climb much at the comp, seeing as how i was supposed to be "judging" and area, but after a while i just had to go and get my shoes and try some problems. no real sends of note, just some repeats and some v4/5's that i hadn't really seen until there were little pieces of paper marking them. so basically i really didn't get in enough climbing on saturday, which necessitated a trip out to the boulderfields today. i finally steered away from reignition for a session to see i would have more luck on some other problems and sure enough, i had some great luck with hoop dreams although i have a feeling i didn't do the right top out, either way, i will get it soon. after i did that, i noticed that i had a small hole in my finger tip that was bleeding so i called it quits. it was wierd i never felt any pain or thinness in my tips and then, BLOOD. oh well, it isn't serious. i guess some little pebble just got me. well i think that is enough of that. if you wanna tell me the right beta for the hoop dreams top out just click "comment here" below and post it in the rock climbing forum. take it easy!
12/1/03
i made a quick trip out to the boulderfields today because i just happened to be in the area and ran into daniel and jeff jones. daniel and i worked a little on tommy h but to no avail, however daniel is just missing the top move. i did however send reignition for the first time this year today so that was good. after that i decided it was a good send to end on and headed home. now on to beef it and hoop dreams!
i also added a forum on my bulletin board for threads about climbing, you can get to it by clicking the "COMMENT HERE" link below and posting into the "CLIMBING" category. post whatever you want to, your personal sends, questions about beta, beta, new routes, rips on me for never updating, etc... just post
11/26/03
i don't think that i have to tell you how long it has been since i have updated the site, if you ever visit you already know, and if not then just for your info i update it EVERY DAY. Anyways, after running into Jeff Jones at the boulderfields on tuesday and hearing him say that he checks or at least did a while back it made me thing that maybe i have let my loyal fans down and that i should try and win them back. so here you go. today i combined a bunch of horsepens 40 videos into one SUPER VIDEO and added more videos from hueco and city of rocks, nm from last january. i also updated the reignition video with new tunes (which was requested by a mr. james parker. what else did i do? oh yeah, i made it easier to update this dilly so maybe i will do that more often. So in conclusion, you haven't missed out on much if you haven't checked in a while, but come back soon, as the weather is just getting nice and i really want to do some more videoing soon. and i probably have some pictures to add too, but that will be a little while longer. so if you see jeff jones thank him for this update and if you like the site, drop me an email, or send me one of your own videos and i will post it up for you. ok cya at horsepens...
3/10/03
man do i ever suck at updating this thing! there has been alot going on since the last post. we (sean, jody, and i) have been climbinging in colorado, new mexico and back to hueco. jody has redpointed his first 12a, and i just sent Reignition [v9]. so i put a few new videos up of some of that stuff, and also posted more photos of different areas thanks largely in part to brent perkins, ryan mcnulty, and amy jo young (pro fotog). so check around and see whats new, and of course keep on keepin on.
slo
1/2/03
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! and for the new year i have put up a new video of stuff we have been doing this fall. i also updated the foster falls page with new pictures from a recent trip. jody and sean are out in colorado skiing right now and i will be joining them next week and we will then begin a big western throw-down! probably some climbing in colorado, new mexico, another trip to hueco, and hopefully austin, and arkansas too (check out the lastest rock and ice). anyways the weather should clear up this weekend for a great day at horsepens. take it easy.
-slo
11/16/02
I am still working on the red river gorge journal, but i am sure i will finish it eventually. I did, however put up some instructions on how to make your own boulder pad. These instructions are ones i used to make mine, which has worked flawlessly for 3 years now. You can find that page at the top right of the map. Also, the Red is a smaller boulder to the left of the rest of the climbing area boulders. no more time to type now, the weather is just too good outside--time to climb!
-slo
10/30/02
finally the finger is all better and the climbing is getting good, or it will be if it ever quits raining... anyways i have updated the site with our fall break trip to the Red River Gorge. Jody and I have been redpointed and onsighting 11's pretty solidly so we are about to start setting our sights on more 12's. Also we are planning on spending alot more time at Little River Canyon so I am sure there will be some pics from there added soon. pull hard
9/4/02
back in school, back in birmingham... climbing has been good so far we've been going to sandrock everyweekend so there are some new pics up from there on the sandrock page, also i added sean malone to the featured climbers page seeing as how there are quite a few pics of him up now. if anybody has any good ways to heal hurt tendons please let me know, i managed to strain my right at the end of the summer and i don't really want to hurt it more, anything will be helpfull just email me!
6/17/02
so far so good this summer, i have been making it climbing quite a bit and i now have a job at the climbing center in knoxville. i divided the pictures up into different climbing areas and added more that weren't up before. take it easy - w
6/1/02
i apologize to those of you who have been coming to the site to see something new and there was nothing, but school got a little busy at the end (as it always does) and i haven't had anytime to update the site. But now i am out for the summer so i will be able to update it often, not that i will neccessarily have any new content for it but whenever i do i will put it up.
with this latest update i have added more pictures from Hueco Tanks, and soon i will add more general pictures and divide the photo page up so that the file size is not quite so bad. cya and pull hard!
4/30/02
well, i updated the site today and decided to add this section to give information on what has been updated and also what my cohorts and i have been doing on the rock. Hopefully i will be able to keep this section updated and you well informed (as if you cared). today jody and i were going to go climbing but it is raining really hard and the gym just didn't sound very good, so here i am. i put up some new pictures on the pictures page and there are two new videos (one of the [tree problem] v6 + topout, and the other of jody, sean and my campus workout last night. anyways.....