Life has been pretty busy the last couple of months, and unfortunately I haven't had much time to work on the site. Apologies to everyone checking in hoping to find more goodies. I just finished an short article on Tucson geology that I had been slowly working on for a while, hopefully some of you guys will find it interesting. I've got a few more things I am trying to finish up, so hopefully there will be a lot more new stuff in the coming weeks. 


On a personal note, I am excited to have just finished building a small home wall in my backyard. It is a project I had been considering for a while, but always talked myself out of. It was surprisingly easy, and even with very little carpentry experience, I am pretty pleased with the results. I've been slowly filling it in with holds, thanks to some good deals from Contact Climbing Holds and ebay, as well as some borrowed ones. The main climbing wall is 8'x8', overhanging about 35 degrees. This main wall is sitting on top of a vertical 2'x8' kicker board for starting off with your feet. I have a couple of ideas to expand it just a little, but unfortunately I'm pretty limited in space so I can't go too overboard.


This past weekend it worked out that I could take a short weekend trip, something I don't get to do too often. So I headed to Hueco for the first time since I moved here (I went a couple times about 6 years ago). It turned out that Saturday was the Rock Rodeo. I was a little worried it would be too crowded or chaotic to get much climbing in, but it turned out to be a stellar day. I climbed a ton of classics and met a bunch of cool people. Sunday was a little rainy, but managed a pretty good half day before heading back into Tucson. I hope to have a more detailed trip report written up soon. 


While it has been amazing to see all the rain and the streams flowing really well, it has been a bummer that most of our good low elevation boulders are underwater. I've got a couple of projects I've been wanting to get back to, but have been opting to rope up a bit lately. I've been wanting to get more photos and videos up lately, but haven't bouldering much lately (plus we lost our camera....). Hopefully things will dry soon and it will be crushing time.