scam

So, I just got an email from Five Ten saying that they have everything 15% off. First thing I went to checked were their Dæscent shoes. Which were $90 before (just a couple of months ago when my wife bought the pair, this price is still everywhere online), and are $105 now, so -15% puts us back to ~$90. This is not how you behave if you respect your customers.

And I will not say anything here about what they did to the sizes, that's something people should experience and be frustrated about without my help.

Tahoe was nice

We tried to assault the Lover's Leap and I stayed second all the time by choice. Our communication sucked until the very end, and clusterfucks were abundant.

80 pushups

So I decided to go back to doing 100 pushups and today realized that there isn't much of going back to do. Some time ago I realized that regular pushups is the only thing that elevates pain in my wrist (carpal tunnel? no idea). Even though I went from usual 30 to  100 in 2-3 month it never became regular. I guess I should work on this.

lol

failure

I tried leading the real rock yesterday. And miserably failed (and also have numerously fallen too). We were climbing the corner (5.10b) on the north face of the Main Rock at Mickey's Beach.

While I had no problems with a top-rope. I couldn't repeat my success and couldn't find my way up when I tried to lead it.

Nevertheless it was fun. To much dirt around though, for my liking. 

goog gives good ideas

Looking at driving directions to Mickey's Beach I just found a Google Earth kmz from rockclimbing.com with places to climb in the Northern California. It's pretty cool considering that there are bunch of geotagged photos you can find around locations.

What is missing is the approach from parking lots. Since I have the gps logger I will start creating them  for the places I visit.

Lead Test

I've passed my lead test today in the gym. It was uneventful. It's been 3-4 month since I took the lead clinic but my regular partners were not ready until now. 

I am not sure if I was anxious or afraid of falling during the test. Some irrationality that was put aside.