Monday, March 7, 2011

Rock Crushing

After Ladies Climb Night Tonight with it's Mardi Gras Masquerade theme and corresponding cupcakes, I will awake early tomorrow morning, load up the car and head to the Red River Gorge with my friend Julie.

We plan on climbing some of this:

And eating Some of This:


While Drinking a few of these:


At this place:

So from Tuesday til Sunday this is where I will be happily residing. there may not be many posts this week about cupcakes. But you can count on some crushing. WELL LETS HOPE. The Red has a tendency to crush my climbing hopes and dreams, and yet it is still a blast every single time. The rock there is super steep with everything from huge jugs, to tiny crimpers, to mono pockets, to slopers, to perfect hand cracks.

I am looking forward to sport climbing. This winter I have been slowly recovering from a brutal ankle sprain sustained at the third tier of the triple crown bouldering competition in December. I am hoping that overhanging sport routes will go easy on my ankle, and that any falls will be clean ones. Bouldering is harsh on a recovering ankle, and also doesn't do much for the endurance training needed for Red River Gorge Routes.

Regardless of how the climbing goes I am excited to spend time sleeping on the ground, laughing around a fire with good people, eating the worlds best pizza, drinking Ale 8 with bourbon, and obsessively talking about crushing rocks until our hands sweat at the thought of sending our projects.

Wish us luck!

4 comments:

  1. There will be cupcakes, or cake at least. Because you get to see your wonderful sister and mother and have a mini birthday celebration :) Looking forward to spending a day with you!

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  2. Yay!! Well we will just have to post some photos of this celebration then! I will bring my camera!

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  3. nice post! super psyched. Also, I like the spacing between the paragraphs! it is way more readable that way.

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  4. Super excited to see your trip report from the red...also to hear about the pizza...in great detail I hope...

    keep crushing!!

    xoxo
    lina

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