The Halloween snow storm we got took out a large branch from the Japanese Maple in the backyard, the branch in turn took out the power line from the house to the garage. Eric had some trouble getting in touch with our landlord so we decided to fix it ourselves. While we were at it […]
2011-11-08 Skipping Work for the Gunks
Today I skipped work with Chris to take advantage of one of the last great days of weather we’ll have before the snow really hits. Well I didn’t actually skip–we took vacation days. The weather was mostly sunny, and in the mid-60’s. Perfect climbing weather. Oscar and Charlie (5.7) Son of Easy O (5.8) […]
2011-11-05 Ragged Mtn.
Today I went out to Ragged Mtn. for a little late fall climbing. I top rope solo’ed a route called Neanderthal Wall (5.9+). After 5-6 laps on this vertical to overhung route Jason and Greg showed up and set up a rope on Duck Soup (5.11). Duck Soup is one of the steepest routes […]
2011-10-27 Fall Climbing Recap
Not many climbing related posts here in a while so I’ll recap a few climbing outings I’ve made this fall. No pictures since I’ve been focusing on getting my climbing up to where I’d like it to be. Not to mention that good photos of in a two person team is very difficult. Trip […]
2011-10-19 Naugatuck Forest
Wednesday after work I headed out with a few people from work to try and see some of the foliage. Unfortunately it was a wet day. Nothing the proper clothing couldn’t fix, but it was slippery. The leaves weren’t at brilliant I hoped but still nice. The rain during the day did have a plus […]
