Finished up another day at the climbing gym today!

It was the 2nd last ARC day -- with the last being tomorrow. Can't wait -- we've almost made it through the first phase! Hands are starting to get pretty raw!

I'm gonna keep things short at sweet again today -- because I feel like I was overwhelming people with how much I was rambling before...

Playing around on a Slopey V3 problem

Slopers are for sure one of my weaknesses. For those of you not in the know, a sloper is:

A sloping hold with very little positive surface. A sloper is comparable to palming a basketball.

Holding onto these kind of holds generally require you to get as much skin on there as possible, put pressure directly vertical (or perfectly 'normal' to the angle of pull), and move quite cautiously. It's weird -- whenever I try to pull hard on them, I can feel my right wrist starting to pop or even dislocate a little bit. It freaks me out, and it keeps me from putting everything I can into it -- which is frustrating. My wrist kinda generally clicks a lot on a good day though, so it's not that strange.

Coming out from the double undercling and moving onto some blocky pinches

This problem was actually quite a bit of fun! Big blocky holds allow for powerful moves, and these pink bastards actually had quite a lot to hold onto. My hand have actually been sweating quite a bit recently when I've been at the gym, so I greased off of this one as I was going for the finishing hold. Super sad about it.

That's all for now, y'all! See you for a big write up tomorrow!! Let me know what you think about the shorter posts... Now that I'm at the end, I kind of think I'm starting to miss updating the pictures and calendar each day...

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The Pitch!

If you've made it this far down the post, then I give you mad props. This shit was longer than just a photo.

After my first few weeks on Steemit, I spent some time thinking about how I can make this space a little sexier. And two things came to mind that could really enable some cool looks at some cool places:

• A drone;
• Trad gear;
• A van (and subsequently, gasoline -- Ideally, electricity).

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