All About The Weather.......

No new great pics considering my friend John dropped the camera from 400 ft the other day. we were doing trad routes and he dropped the camera off the second pitch of High Exposure. Yes, bummer. amazingly the camera is still in tact but something inside is jiggling and

Rain has set in again here in New Paltz. It has been a good trip and still getting every last bit of climbing out of it before it ends . this morning John and I got out and did the first pitch of Birdland before the rain set in. Beautiful route in the Near Trapps area. we are waiting it out now for a bit and hopefully the sun comes back and dries it all out again. the plan is to get on something this evening then climb all day tomorrow while we have a solid window of good weather. Todays planned 11 pitch traverse across the went out the window.

Still exploring and finding so much in the area. so much rock. after being blown away by all the bouldering and served a bunch of awesome projects the route side of things comes along and all that fun begins again. awesome. it really is impossible to get bored here. just the weather that needs to cooperate.........

last night we went to "The Mutation Station". an awesome home gym built inside of a barn that one of the Preserve Rangers keeps up. good place to go train on rainy days. really quite rad. if this weather keeps up we may be there quite a bit.........

ok, back outside to see if anything has dried out by now...........

Instant Suffering

Its been a long couple of days up here in good old New Paltz town as summer sets in. Now its raining so some indoor time is provided. The weather has been all good - hot, but all good. That means rock climbing, hiking, development, and swimming holes. Lots of work.


After a quick trip down to the city for some jamming I returned to the North with my buddy KK Hueng to climb for a couple of day.


We returned to the Northeast area and spent most of our time projecting routes up there. This is KK on Cataclysms Arete. Afternoon temperatures hit the high 80's so we made the best to get alpine starts and hit it before the sun just baked the whole rock. even still summer temperatures and humidity have made themselves known here in the NE and everything was super slimy. FUN!

This is me working through the same crux section. It is an awesome route - challenging and fun. Power and endurance. Hope to finish it up before leaving the area.

A few days earlier I hiked up with some local friends to work in some routes in the Trapps area. Although the area can get super crowded on the weekends there is an endless amount of quality boulder problems and lots of friendly climbers.

Here is Chad Fody going to work on Suenos. Beautiful line in The Gunks. On a crisp day this beauty will definitely go.

We have also put up some new routes in the area. Staying a little busy.

Above is a little roof problem called Joey Goes Home in the Northeast area. Straight up the face. Good moves to an interesting top out.

Although turned the wrong way (cameras!) this overhanging blog has an awesome line going up the right arete out to the lip. Rad. I've cleaned the landing and once some pads are lined up should make for fun climbing.

The weather is supposed to return to hot over the next couple of days. I believe the term is summer. Summer brings heat, humidity, crowds, mosquitoes, you name it. But the rock climbing remains great as always. Fun as can be. Up along the Cliff line its business as usual. Another day of pulling hard and getting it all done. "Instant Suffering" is what i believe the actual term is.