For some reason I didn’t start my season on Trapped Like a Rat this year. I didn’t even think about it until Todd mentioned the route as we were walking below it on the carriage road. I looked up and saw the ugly corner in its usual damp state and just said “oh” and kept… Read more »
Posts By: Dawn
Shhh! Be wery wery quiet. I’m going caving.
There will be no specifics in this caving story because cavers are secretive people and if I tell you where I went they’ll have to kill me. Cavers are also pretty serious people. There are a lot more rules to crawling around on your stomach in the dark than you might expect. I only willfully… Read more »
Thanksgiving Spread
Running with Kevin the Monday before Thanksgiving, I mentioned that I had nothing whatsoever planned for the four day weekend. I didn’t mind. It sounded like a nice relaxing weekend, a chance to catch up on chores, pay some bills, vacuum, maybe watch a game or two. But I have too many friends and too… Read more »
The fat lady refuses to sing
Still November, still climbing. I begin to wonder if the season will ever end. I climbed Wrist for the first time. I don’t know if I was on-route for the first pitch but that’s sure an eye opener of a second pitch. We’re always complaining about the sandbagged ratings at my gym, but we don’t… Read more »
November what-now?
What a beautiful weekend. Saturday morning it was a little chilly waiting for the start of the Air Line Ghost Rail Run, but not as bad as I’d feared. I went into the race with low motivation. My last tempo run hadn’t gone well and I wondered why I was choosing to run 13.1 miles… Read more »
Running friendly, running blind
There was a time when I wondered why I found myself running more and climbing less, so I ticked off all the reasons why running can be awfully more convenient than climbing. One of them was that you don’t need a partner to run. Still, a partner can be fun. Friday night my stepbrother Graham… Read more »
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I was driving home from the Gunks tonight, very focused on the fact that I was taking the back roads instead of 87, when the idiot light came on to warn me that I was getting low on gas. It was a surprise. Somehow I’d driven all the way to the Gunks that morning without… Read more »
I know things now, many valuable things
Once upon a time, like all of us, I was a beginner. I had to be belayed across ledges and talked through cleaning an anchor. I didn’t know a right-facing corner from a left-facing corner or an Alien from a Camalot. I climbed what I was pointed at and took unexpected falls and couldn’t remember,… Read more »
80% chance of millipedes
I think a millipede may be the most disgusting creature ever. In case you’ve never seen one before (and before I started climbing at the Gunks, I hadn’t), here’s a link to Millipede Facts. Millipedes are unavoidable at the Gunks but this weekend they were swarming, along with killer ladybugs (sure, they’re cute but they… Read more »
It’s the climb
Steve asks: Why do we need goals? and I’m going to answer with some lyrics from a Miley Cryus song, as lame as knowing the lyrics to a Miley Cyrus song may be: There’s always gonna be another mountainI’m always gonna wanna make it moveAlways gonna be an uphill battle,Sometimes I’m gonna have to loseAin’t… Read more »