Some Fun in Castlewood

Photo of Chris on this sweet dyno on the Nine Lives Boulder; he is getting close to sending it:

Been spending some time over the last week or so finally really getting back into climbing. Went back to the nine lives boulder and spent the day working on a variation of the main arete and started to make some progress. Then a few days later went back out to the wood with Stephen, Chris, and Ryan and found new boulders in the Scary Monsters Area.

Chris on the Slabmaster Boulder:

That was on Friday night, then on Sunday took a huge crew back to the nine lives boulder. Seven of us had some fun on a really beautiful day in castlewood:

Chris Ivy on the Nine Lives Arete variation:

Maximus on the same problem:

Also if you are still reading this post I added this to the climbing wall in the garage: http://www.routesetter.com/2008/04/21/diy-wall-improvement-volumes/

Peace.

No More Blue Balls- Zuma 4/13/08

Location: Deer Creek Valley, Montezuma

Date: 4/13/2008; the day the majority of the resorts closed in Colorado

Crew: Trent Cook, Evan O’Connell, Scott Miller, Duncan Maxwell, Tweak (aka Matt Holden), and Myself

After having to deal with less then ideal weather conditions for the previous 3-4 weeks we had one day of just pure beauty. With relatively new snow all over the hills we tore it up as we explored numerous lines across all of the faces that were skiable; each of us did at least seven runs (over 42 lines for you math geniuses out there!!!) and literally skied til exhaustion.

The first run of the day happened at 9:15am and the last one happened at 4:00pm, and the result is as shown below:

Check out the picture gallery for the top 25 pics from the day: http://andylibrande.com/pictures/photos/album37

Scott launching:

Tweak cruising through:

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Duncan taking quite the fall off of a natural kicker (I am going to put this sequence into a video as it is damn funny):

The crew at the end of the day watching a view other lines:

That’s just a few of the pics the rest can be found at the gallery listed above. I have a bunch more things coming including some additional video action that should be straight crazy.

Peace.