Don’t Call it a Comeback

What can I say, the skiing has been damn good recently. Unfortunately, I took a high speed fall about a week and half ago that tweaked my knee/lower leg pretty good. I’ve skied on it twice since then, but decided I should just rest it and not do anything stupid. Rock climbing seems to fall into this category.

Yesterday I headed out with my friend Mike to a low key zone he has been quietly working on for a couple years. Its in a beautiful setting and the rock is superb. At some point we’ll let the cat out of the bag, but for now it’s better to keep it unknown. We got out to the cliff early and had a super productive day. After warming up on a couple of the established routes, we dropped some ropes down potential lines. One turned out to be a really cool trad route up a corner with some thin but good gear in places. The other turned out to be one of the finer lines on the cliff. A hard start leads to steep climbing up an arete, followed by techy moves at the top. Two more new routes went down, a short but in your face steep route, and a nice face with a couple of interesting cruxes.

It was fun to get out and do some climbing. I am probably in the best shape of my life aerobically speaking, but the climbing fitness is no where to be seen. It can only get better, right?