Archive for January, 2008

With the Buttermilks still snowed under, I went out to the Happys again.  Warmed up on a couple juggers before joining a group of people at the Happiness Boulder.  One of the guys was working on Hulk (V6).  I set up next to him and started work on my first project, Disco Diva (V8) and promptly gave myself bloody knuckles, as evidenced above.

I could have boosted contrast and colors to make it look goreier than it is, but I’m all about truth in journalism, kids.

After linking up the moves up to the crux on Disco Diva, I called it a day and moved on to Kling and Smirk (V2), which completely shut me down the other day.  Honestly, the grade in the guidebook must be a typo.  Its NOT a V2.  But since it is rated a V2, I couldn’t walk away from this one at the end of my stay here.  So, much gnashing of teeth, pulling of hairs, falling down and plenty of kicking sand at it, I finally figured out how to link past the crux and found myself scrambling out for the top.

I’ll probably head out there again tomorrow, but I wont be climbing. I’ll be doing photos.  I should have many more to share with y’all tmrw.

If you were to step off my sidewalk onto the street in front of my house and look directly west, you’d see this visually stunning peak standing guard over the town.  Its called Mt. Tom, and gets its name from the Thomas Creek that runs by it.

I got the idea one day that it’d be cool to hike up to the very summit one day.  But it looks rather intidimating.  All that snow and steep ravines.  I looked around online and the general word seems to be that it is not a difficult climb, just long and strenous, given that it rises almost 10,000 feet above the valley floor.

I’m going to try to talk to some people around here, see if  I find some more information about how to get to the summit, and mabye one day this spring, I’ll just hike up that dang thing.

Even though I’m over in the Pacific Time Zone, I’ve been keeping my schedule on the Eastern Time Zone, primarily for my employer (which still is back in Virginia).  So that means I get up at 5-6am and turn in at 10pm.

It’s really a total turn-around from the typical schedule I kept when living in the big-city.  I’d be out late and stumble into work at 10am.

This morning when walking over to get my cup of coffee from the Looney Bean coffee shop, I saw this amazing sunrise.  Its almost as if the cold frosty clouds are being blasted to bits by the incoming morning sun.