Well I finally sat down for more than a few seconds so that I could update this ol' blog thingy for everyone. Over the summer I was lucky enough to explore Europe for a little over a month with my homies Josh Levin (fellow 5.10 athlete), Joe Gifford, and Nicholas Milburn. Concluding my last SCS Youth Nationals in which I placed 2nd in after a very EPIC 12min long time on finals (haha if u were there u know), we booked it to Munich for a few days. While in Munich I was able to go explore the Olympic Park and hang out at some festival right by the park which was crazy!
Big Up to Jansport for providing the bags for my trip to Europe, they held up amazing!
Munich
Festival near the Olympic Park
One of many Audi R8's spotted
Sweet BMW
Olympic Park
My new BMW bike :D
Another Audi r8
Arco
After Munich we headed on over to Arco Italy where the Arco World Championships were being held and which I was competing in Bouldering, Sport, Speed and Team Speed.
Places:
Bouldering:
Sport:
Speed:
Team Speed:
I had a blast in Arco, by far the most climber friendly place I have ever been to. Literally a climbing shop every ten feet, it was ridiculously awesome!
Cool fountain
Church
Cool castle
Church
Countdown clock in the town center
Bloody huge bag
Arco
Arco
The wall
Bouldering Wall
Riva Del Gardo - town south of Arco
Finals crowd
Male bouldering champs
Sweet!!
Arco
Arco
Underground 9a
Castle that was closed after we hiked all the way up this super longggg hill. (apparently there was a sign at the bottom that said it was closed) oops lol
Crazy rooster at top of long hill
Super Model show that me and Joe Gifford got sidetracked by on our way to Finals and ended up watching instead haha
Ceuse
Following Arco nest stop was Ceuse France. To be honest I was not too psyched on the hike up lol as I am not the biggest fan of hiking but the climbing was definitely worth the long grueling hike up (after a nice long nap of course haha). Sadly it was raining the next day at Ceuse so we decided to host a mini comp at the little wall that they had at the camp ground near the bottom of the wall.
Comp Wall
Joe's feminine side
The comp winners!!
Briancon
After Ceuse was Briancon, France where my second Sport World Cup that I was going to compete in was taking place. I placed a solid --- at the event. These blokes are super duper strong, let me tell you lol. I had a blast though climbing with all the legends of rock that I see on the comp killing it all the time.
This is what happens of you dont make finals haha
Super sketchy free solo of an old castle at least 35ft, thankfully I had 5.10 on :)
The A-Team!!!!!!
Huge sucker
Dungeon
Rodellar
Next stop was Rodellar Spain!!!! Rodellar was amazing!!! We spent nearly two weeks here and I loved every second of it. Tufas, kneebars and drop knees galore, climbers paradise. It was here that I sent my first 8c "Welcome to Tijuana" and 8b+ "El Chorreras". Cannot wait to go back!
Send List:
Attempting to get some good pics while on take working Welcome to Tijuana haha
Welcome to Tijuana 8c
El Delfin
Zillertal Austria.
Josh getting his photo on
Imst
