10 reasons why I love to climb

In no particular order:

1. Being outside. This world is so amazing! Climbing allows me to appreciate it on both a large and small scale.

2. Being with friends. I wish all my good friends were serious climbers, there really is no better way to pass the time.
3. Learning to push my limits. I love the idea that no matter what I can change and grow, I can adapt and learn, I can train and grow stronger.
4. Sending! Sometimes hard work does pay off.
5. Feeling and learning movement. I like to think that I'm the boss of my body, I can make it do what I want it to. I love the feeling of control.
6. Exhilaration.Yee Haw!
7. Escape. Life sucks some days, but when I'm climbing the only things that exist are me, my friends, and the current project. Everything else diminishes.
8. Learning focus and control. Climbing is very much mental to me. If I'm not motivated, optimistic and relaxed I can't even come close to my limit. It's a learning process.
9. Adventure. I love to visit new places and see new things. There are so many amazing places to climb. I hope that one day I'll be able to travel on a larger scale.
10. Feeling alive!

 So there you have it. Maybe I'm a bit cheesy, but hey, we all have our passions (at least I hope we do).  Climbing happens to be the way that choose to spend my time. It's the way I want to experience the world around me.  Bottom line: CLIMBING IS FUN!
-cw

Webb's Day Off

What is better than a long weekend you may ask? Time taken off of school/work while everyone else is still suffering! :) Casey and I did just that a few weekends ago. He took off school, I took off work, we jumped in the Neon and drove to Vegas! The reason? The 2010 Reel Rock Tour. It was great. The filming was incredible and the climbing inspiring. There was also a lot of good humor that we enjoyed. Plus the crowd who came to watch it was quite entertaining. "She must be Chris Sharma's grandma...cuz she definitely isn't a rock climber." :)  I guess a free movie night is a free movie night for everyone!

We stayed at a hotel, slept in, had breakfast in bed, and went bouldering at the Kraft boulders the next day. It was heaven! Seriously. One of the best weekends in October. And we've had some great weekends. I live for the weekends. We live great lives.

We loved the boulders, even though we didn't know what a lot of the stuff was. The rock quality is awesome, the movement was fun, and there was a very high concentration of boulders. We give it a 7.5. It was also fun to have time to play with the camera!

Casey sent Monkey Bar Direct v9.

I found some cool v3ish problems that were fun to send!

We are definitely game for a trip back sometime.

Joe's Valley trip

Thank heaven for long weekends and good friends is all I have to say. Our weekend trip to Joe's Valley was a HUGE success!! The Cedar crew tore it up! What an incredible place. Everyone climbed amazingly well, launching bouldering season with a great start. I could literally (almost) feel the excitement in the air. The recent sends list will need to be totally remodeled. Enough words, here are the pics!

Cameron had an awesome first trip to Joe's! He is progressing very quickly! Good job!

Greg also had a great weekend, sending problems left and right!

Tommy never ceases to amaze us with his incredible bouldering ability, even after having a broken wrist and not climbing for like a year!

Climbing at the Front is obviously going well for Andy as he also spent the weekend with send after send!

Not only is Zach a great guy, he is also a great climber! So strong!

Joe had an incredible weekend as well, so I hear. I never actually saw him climb so it could just be rumor. :) Just kidding of course.  Sorry I didn't get any pics of you Joe!

My favorite climber Casey (sorry everyone, we're married what can I say?) also did great!! He sent Marble Cake v9/10 in just a few tries and made great progress on Resident Evil. We have to go back in a few weeks because it is going down!

Bridget proved that she has awesome technique and retains her climbing ability amazingly well even as a first year teacher! Yay for girl climbing buddies. :)

I had fun too of course!! Didn't even want to come home in fact. The life of a climbing bum is sounding more and more appealing every day. :)

Our friend who had one too many sips of beer before trying to learn how to boulder. Yes, you do have to lift your bum off the ground before you move your hand to send the problem. Very entertaining!

Casey looking great on Wills a Fire, my new project. A must do for anybody who is close to that level!

We also have a few videos that we will post asap.

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Ok, I'm officially stoked.
First of all, we are going to Joe's TOMORROW MORNING!!!
Today I spent 6 hours teaching twenty-four six-year-olds and 5 1/2 hours doing prep to teach those same kids. Needless to say, I am ready for a bouldering break!
Second of all, I just discovered how to check how many people look at this blog. Little did I know, there are quite a few! Just this month we had hits from Slovakia, the U.K., Finland, Germany, Canada, Latvia, Mexico, Poland, India, the Ukraine, and Denmark. Sweet. Thank you viewers! Even if you just happened to stumble upon us, you made my day! I feel famous.

Dear Joe's Valley,
   I am so excited to see you the day after tomorrow!! Even though the Adair family isn't coming with us. :)   Please inform resident evil, marble cake, pimper's paradise, wills a fire, and many other classic problems that we are on our way and they are going down!

love,
Sheralee and Casey

We are nerds. But nerds that are very excited for a long weekend at Joe's. Wahoo!!!

.....I'm not sure if anyone actually reads this thing anyway......

Recent Discovery

Saturday evening as we sat in our living room looking at climbing videos online, we came across a video of Dave Graham in Southern Utah. What do you know but he drove right by our street on the film! He ended up at some boulders and Hurricane Peak was in the background. So of course Sunday afternoon we hopped in the car and drove down the street past our house. And....boulders!!!! We had hiked to the Hurricave on a previous Sunday afternoon, we just didn't realize that there was more down the road.

Today after we got home from work and school we ate a quick dinner and made our way back to the boulders, this time with crash pads and shoes in tow. A lot of the rock is choss, but there were some fun, quality problems as well. And the great news is that it is really close to home. I'm so excited for bouldering season!! Can hardly wait for Joe's Valley this weekend!

the Wash

As promised, here are some somewhat recent pictures of the crew at the Wash. It's hard to keep up with all of these fun adventures! Next up we will have highlights of our trip to Vegas for the Reel Rock tour and bouldering at the Kraft boulders. Awesome times! Stoked for Joe's this coming weekend!