Somehow, last night the stars aligned and we managed to get Ananth and Yuko up on the walls! Both of them kicked quite a lot of ass. Ananth even tried the high walls on his first night. Took me a month to work up the courage. Kilika of Blue and Blond fame came out to play for the first time. Brian, Garth, and Cole finally returned to the walls after a long con season.

I have married a ninja spider monkey. Audrey did her second 5.11a which is freaking nuts after only two months of climbing! Going three times a week has really started to pay off. I’ve gotten up to a 5.10c so I’m not too far behind. But it’s so fun watching Audrey just scramble up the wall like a freaking ninja. I think fairly soon she’ll be climbing lead. And we might want to start thinking about hitting some real rock sometime as the weather starts to cool. We’ll see.

For this week’s clip we have Jonathan Thesenga and Brittany Griffith recounting their climbing trip to Stolby, Siberia. The people of Stolby are fucking hard core. They climb without any gear, no ropes, no cams, no protection. Just shoes. And sometimes a chalk bag. This is called free soloing. The routes are insane and go up hundreds of feet and if you fall, you die. This is rock climbing at its most pure and most insane.

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