Rock Candy Climbing Holds Sponsorship!!!

Today, August 15, 2013,  I got a Rock Candy Product Sponsorship! Super excited because they are some of the best holds on the market right now.

White Mountain Climbing Camp

I spend two weeks in the white mountains of New Hampshire. In those two weeks I went to four climbing areas that were all about 45 minutes away from the White Mountain School Campus. We went to Rumney, Cathedral, Mt Oscar, and Eco Crag. My favorite place to go climb was Rumney because it had a huge amount of sport climbs that you could do. Rumney was the place I preferred to go because I like sport climbing and I really wanted to work to get better at it. The climbing at Rumney was really technical which was really nice and some climbs had a mix of small power moves. The first few times we went to Rumney I was able to go to Waimea. Waimea has a really high consistency of hard routes. The easiest route there was a 5.10a. The routes I worked on while I was there was Restless Native and Technosurfing; both of which are 5.12. I worked on Restless Native the first two days. Restless Native is a 5.12b/c and I was able to get up through the first crux. I made it through the crux in two moves and I worked up a few moves past it then I got super pumped. I came down and took a break for a little bit and then gave it another go. I made it to the same spot and got the same pump. I then decided I should try it another day. I tried Technosurfing. I wasn’t able to get the starting moves. The starting moves are lean backs and it a little awkward because you need to bring your hips in really tight with the wall. It put a lot of pressure towards my lower back so I decided I should try it another day. The next day it rained so we weren’t able to climb because all the climbs were wet. We went back the next day and we head straight to Waimea and we didn’t need a warm up because the hike up to Waimea was a little hard. I jumped right on to Restless Native and gave it a good go and made it through the crux moves and up further than I did the last time I tried it. I was super excited because I knew it was going to be a good day of climbing for me. We were able to get on Technosurfing. I was a little nervous about getting on it because the start is really hard. I gave it a go and walked right the starting moves and through the next 6 draws. I fell at the end of the first crux. I was really excited because I knew I was going to be able to get further than where I got. I tried the crux and few more times and finally broke through and made it to the 7^th draw and got really pumped. I decided to come down and work on other routes. The next day was our off day and Sunday we went to Mt Oscar. I decided I wanted to work on other routes in new areas. I went to Main Cliff Left for three days of the next five days of climbing. I flashed Scene of the Crime as a sport climb. It was a lot of and really technical, you had to be precise with your feet. Gabe set up Armed, Dangerous and Off My Medication. I onsighted this route top rope and gave it a go lead.  I was unable to do it lead. I just let my nerves get to me when I need them not to the most. We came back the next day and I sent the route lead. I was really excited because I had walked right through the entire route. The next day we went to the 5.8 Crag. There I flashed “Romancing the Stone: which is a 5.10c. This climb is a little weird because you want to have a lay back but the type of moves just don’t allow you to do so. The finish on this route is about 7 feet of straight jugs. I was happy with how I was climbing because I was getting tired. My body was not really al the excited with pushing more and more each day. The last day of climbing I went to Main Cliff Right. I got on a 5.8, a 5.7 and a 5.5 all sport. When we were all done climbing each day we would put our gear in our dorms and head up to the game room and do fosse ball tournament. We would have dinner and then have an activity for the night before Evening Meeting. There we would talk about what we did for the day, what we liked or didn’t like and what our plan for the next day was. We would go back to our dorms for the night and we had till 10 to do whatever we needed to do. I brought the GoPro along with me and it took more than 500 photos and 10 videos. I kept track of all the routes I was able to complete weather it was an onsight or a flash.  I got home August 3, 2013 and took a few days off but I will soon be getting ready for the upcoming ABS Season. All of the pictures and videos that were taken at camp are loaded to my Facebook, YouTube and Flickr Accounts. Check them out, there are a ton of really cool photos for the surroundings.