Climbing trips to Hoosier Heights and ARock

This weekend was pretty fun. We needed to head to Indy because we're getting a new dog  and went to go pick him out of the litter. Before we went to pick him out we stopped at Hoosier Heights in Indy for about 5 hours. We did our lead tests which was fun because we could go to the top and not clip the top anchors and just fall from there. It was pretty cool because I have never really done that before. After that we headed to a 5.9 which was near by. It was a little tricky at the top. You would want to do this move by bumping holds but if you did you would lose your footing. You were leaning to the right with your feet to the way left of the route. It was a little tricky but if you got a really high left foot you would be able to bump to the next rather easily.  Once  I got warmed up I started looking for some higher 5.10s. I found four that look like they would be really nice routes. The first one I did was a 5.10b and the hold that were on the route were mainly crimps. I onsighted the route and that got me really excited because I haven't done a 5.10 in some time so that really helped me out a lot for the following routes. I started working on routes from 5.10c-5.11b. I did about three 5.10d which were a little harder and one of them I had to take because I was confused on the where the route went and how to even make the next move. I tried an 5.11a but got about half way and could not figure out have to do the the next two moves. So I came down and tried an 5.11c on top rope. I did a lot more lead climbing and top ropes of 5.10d or higher. After I was done rope climbing I took a 5 min break and then went and tried climbing the Snake. The Snake was a bouldering tower that hung over an eight foot deep foam pit and was about 20 feet tall. It was pretty cool and it didn't matter how high you wanted to go. I tried it about five times and got to the same spot every time. The first time you go on it and you are ready to come down it a creepy feeling because you laying backwards in the over hang and don't want to land on your back. I ended up letting my feet hang then swinging so that I would land on my side. After we were done climbing we headed to a restaurant to get food then headed out to home of our new puppy that we were picking out of the litter. We are getting an Alaskan Malamute/Grey Wolf mix. The puppies are only 4 weeks old so we have to wait a couple weeks but I cant wait because the puppy we picked out looks pretty close to the my Malamute that we have now when he was a puppy. Monday, New Years Eve, we headed back home to rest up for a few hours before I had to go to work at 6:30. I was working in the X-Arcade at the local Y. It was my first time working and there and it went pretty well. I was a little busy but I was not surprised because last year I helped out in the Rockwall and we ran about 250 people through there in three hours. I was fun because when I slowed down a little bit I was able to play some games with the kids that were in there alone. At 9:50 pm they started there simulated countdown in the gym. Kids got candy, party hats and little buzz whistles. At 10 o'clock they let out balloons and started playing new year songs. After work I headed home with some friends and had a movie night until 1:45 am because then no one would get any tickets for parking on the wrong side of the street. New Years Day I worked on my math homework and relaxing because we were heading up to Adventure Rock around 1. When we got there I did 2 top rope warm up routes and 3 lead warms up. After that I headed over to a 5.10+ and finished it in one fall. Which made me really happy because the first 5 draws are straight power moves and were longer moves. After I did that one I tried another 5.10 but I was more in the over hang part of the gym, I finished it in 4 falls. I took a little break and got ready to try a 5.11+. It took a couple tries to do the first move but once I got it I made it to the fourth draw with out falling and then was to pumped to do anything else on the route. After I did that route I went and grab the Tread Wall cord and did that for about 30 minutes. I did a slow warm up on it and the kicked the speed up and put the incline at 15% and used just the pinches and crimps that were there for about 10 minutes and climbed about 300 feet. The next ten minutes I used just two finger pockets at the same incline but slowed to speed down and climbed 250 feet. My third set I did one of the programs which was graded at a 5.13 using just the jugs. I made it two thirds the way on the program  which was at 20% incline. I was pretty happy with how I did for the day. At the end of the month there is going to be a competition at Adventure Rock called Quick on the Draw and I am getting ready for this competition. About two weeks after Quick on the Draw starts my SCS Season which I cant wait to start because I am climbing a lot better this year than last year around this time. All the videos and photos are loaded to Facebook, YouTube and Flickr check them out there are a lot of really need photos of this weekend.