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Saturday - Got paid to belay hot girls up a climbing wall and did a teambuilding session with a group of mostly sorrority girls.

Sunday - Taught little kids how to climb

Monday - Photo Shoot at my challenge course (cute girls again) in beautiful weather followed by teaching rope rescues to a college class

Tuesday - Climbed at Phantasia... flashed Creature Feature, Pogue Ethics, Lord of the Flies, and a long traverse boulder problem. relaxed in the cool shade. Dinner with my wife

Wednesday - Follow-up photo shoot, now I'm spending the day with my wife since tax season is over... maybe I'll get lucky... if i remember how.

SPRAY!!!!!!!!!!!

didn't climb at the red, but did climb at the new on sunday...sent "norse code" 5.12d in three goes...heading to the red this weekend though....wooohoooo!

We did The Whistle Driller, very nice and John did the Specimen. It was getting dark so I opted out ( had nothing to do with the difficulty of the starting move )

how do you do that move off the ground?

I also checked out Mr. Get it on Jones, that thing looks sick. Nice looking climb!

Sat: Climbed
Sun: Climbed
This Friday: mo' climbin
This Sat: mo' clmbin

Good job on your send, MattG! Sweet!

Sat: vu ja de-sited Government Cheese (TR'd it years ago). Cool climb. Then got worked on Gung Ho.
Sun: After SCIN's duathlon, I gardened all day while he slept. Kick ass weekend this Spring, I must say.

Fri: Hit the road about 6:30 from Chicago - drove 7.5 hours through Indiana (State Motto: "The Crossroads of America" because no one wants to go there, they just want to get across it), through Cinncy and down to the Red. Drove around for a while (at 2:30 local time) trying to find a certain campground that doesn't have much in the way of signage on the road. Set up tent/sacked out around 3:00 am local time.

Sat: Dragged ass out of tent around 11:00 am local time. Drove to Military. (The lot was full, but everyone was at Left Flank - Military was pretty empty) Warmed up on Moonbeam, Onsighted Danita Delores (with much cheating to the right) while listening to someone grunting and yelling her way up Government Cheese (sounded very impressive!), got past the crux of Possum Lips only to blow it on the higher easier moves, did lots of sitting around chatting only to discover that the impressively vocal climber was Artsay being belayed by Ray/SCIN! (Very cool to meet people from the forum!), got worked on Fuzzy Undercling (felt stronger on it last fall - must get back into shape!), slunk to Miguel's exhausted.

Sun: After hooking up with the crew from the Shop (a co-op gym in Chicago) we headed to Drive By where I warmed up by TR-flashing Breakfast Burrito (pat self on back) then flashed the newish 10a to the right of BB, watched the Shop badasses on Check Your Grip, then TR'd BB again to get my draws off of it. (The problem with having cleanly TR'd BB twice is that I now have to go back and lead it. I really am freaked by those flexy flakes above the anchors - and the lack of jugs just below the chains - gulp!) Drove the 7.5 hours back to Chicago.

The difference between a duathlon and a biathlon is the sequence of events. SCIN is right about the biathlon being cross country skiing and shooting a rifle at targets. But in reference running and bicycling, a biathlon is usually a run/bike format whereas a duathlon is a run/bike/run format. My two cents. Congrats on the new PR SCIN. I have done that race a couple times back in the early 90's. HFP does a good job with their races.

Yeah, Gumby in the Rough is a sandbag route. If you think the guy didn't go to the top, I wouldn't be surprised. It was a total death move finish. You had a choice between perhaps a 5.12 mantle move or the way we did it which was to totally pull up and out on a rooted twig and fish flop. It was pretty sketchy to be sure. Rhino was in a zone to pull that move on lead (or was it a coma? Not sure.).

That Specimen thingy kicked my ass good. I had to funkify the start and once I got a hand in above the slot, I thought I was in for good. Then the thing spanked me hard just trying to deal with the off hands/thin fists part. It's doable for me, but I'd really like to see a harder rating for it to soothe my bruised hands and ego.

That Whistle Driller was one of the funnest routes I've done, by the way. I'd give it *** and add another anchor to it.

hey, thanks ARTSAY. i talked to ray, said you two might go the the 'load on sunday. we'll watch for you guys (the mut included). what .12 is next on your list? they seem to be falling fast for you lately....

You caught me huggybone, no climbing for me. I just post around here to trying to fit in.
Saturday got a heck of a bargin on a piece of furniture at an antique sale. Replaced the vents in my crawlspace. Jill and I had a nice diner at DeSheas (been in Lex 10 years now and had never at there).
Sunday wallered around under my house sealing the vents, pulling phone line, and redoing some death trap electric work. Bought a grill and cooked out.
Spring rules!