If You Don’t Know Yet…

… take a look HERE!!!! Amazon man… big time! Andrew Bisharat’s first and brilliant book on how to sportclimb. This is a great addition to the “how-to” books out there. When I was first starting out and became completely obsessed with climbing I read every book on the market. If this book were around I would have flipped. This shows us the newest and latest tactics for dogging, climbing, redpointing, onsighting, all of the elements in sportclimbing that the other books don’t cover. THIS is the one to read.
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Andrew… thanks for the signed copy hommie… I TAUGHT YOU EVERYTHING YOU KNOW!!!!

The Bee Story

We were in France about 3 years ago.  St. Leger to be exact.  And in this particular climbing destination there is NO campgrounds or anything other than van camping.  Like other climbers we poached.  This is standard practice for climbers… some call it “bivy”, “poach”, “jack”, “squat”, etc.  We had a great spot until……

Bee Story From France. from Joey Kinder on Vimeo.

A Day At Moe’s, VRG, And NOW Some Rest…. needed.

It’s been almost two weeks since I got here and I have had only one real rest day. ONE day of chilling out and not really doing anything active. I think I’m due for one day of relaxing and then back to the bolting and climbing.  There is a lot to occupy someone like me here… SO much stone to bolt and SO many projects to clean and get ready to climb on. ALL in time right? Two weeks here and I have gotten a good amount bolted and which is really my goal right now. It’s odd for me to call climbing second, but it is right now and it will TOTALLY be worth it. Here are some photos.

Got my order of Petzl goodies for the year... SOOO happy to have 40 new draws.... MUCH needed.
La Casa

La Casa

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Isaac and his special sauce.

Isaac and his special sauce.

Sam Davis on Frogtown 13d.

Sam Davis on Frogtown 13d.

Weekend Day at the VRG.... LOOOOOTSA fun.

Weekend Day at the VRG.... LOOOOOTSA fun.

The little black ball of fury.

The little black ball of fury.

Moe's Rock

Moe's Rock

Colette

Colette

Isaac

Isaac

Me on The Swan.  Very nice one.

Me on The Swan. Very nice one.

Hommies...  Isaac is one of the greatest guys I know.

Hommies... Isaac is one of the greatest guys I know.

T-Webb-Design

T-Webb-Design

Isaac on Gription V9.

Isaac on Gription V9.