the newest project!

i have been climbing super hard with a great friend and climber Mike McMclure we have been trying this wonderful line that we both thought would go pretty quick? boy were we wrong we are now on day 3/4 but we are keeping our hopes up and praying that we can finish one of the hardest lines around. had a few pictures so i thought i would share! pump this weekend excited to see some old friends!

me and my life

hello every one i haven't posted in a long time and some people wanted to know what i was up so so i thought i would share! i am still going to school at BSU it is done in about 1 week. i am dating the most amazing person. kate and i have been dating for over a year now. so that is exciting. i am lucky to have her influence my life! i have another lady in my life i met her on febuary 24 her name is misty i added her to my family. she is a german shepard/lab/chow mix she is really sweet and calm. i sprained my ankle a few weeks ago so i haven't been able to climb much that hasn't been to much fun. so corey and i decided to set up i giant swing to entertain our self a few weekends ago go to coreys blog and check out our super fun new hobbie. we have a few other ones in mind we will keep people posted! here are some pictures of my new car that i got after my other one became a little usless. well i need to go but enjoy i will try to keep up over the summer. hope to see a bunch of you this weekend at tim's reception.

hello

i don't know how many people read this but i am sure that there at aleast some the last post was about my car wreck and that was quite a long time ago i now have a new car i am drving a honda element i love it her name is Sage she is green and i super fun to drive. i have had her almost 2 moths so that is cool.

so what have i been up to i am in school so that takes up alot of my time but it is alot of fun. i am taking two classes and am enjoying both of them i am also traveling still as much as possiable. i have been to maple now i went with jared and marcus and cory a while back ago it was really cool place i can't wait to go back. been to redrocks again. and i also drove down to cali in october too. so i have but quite a few miles on my car. i am in richfeild utah right now hanging with the family idrive back tomorrow morning and get to go on a date with the most amazing ladie. so i am excited to get back home to go see my girl friend.

up coming events there is a climbing comp at the nampa rec center on next saturday at least 40 new boulder problems so that is going to be awsome so if you are in the area you should come and climb at it. it will be alot of fun.

well happy thanks giving everyone

have fun.

GOOD BYE PRIM

WHAT A CRAZY WEEKEND I HAVE HAD! so on friday i packed all of my stuff into my car exepcting that after work i was going to run to twin pick up cory and go to the sawtooths and go climbing! it was going to be fun i was super exceited. i had one last job todo before the great trip started so i got in my car and headed for the school i was working at. i made it about 1/2 a mile from the job sight and a gentel men in a 63 dodge ran a stop sign while i was in the intersection great fun right? well need less to say my weekend plans changed. so after this car hit me i did a 360 around his truck and my tail was in the other lane and then another car hit me because he didn't have enough time to stop which sucked so i got hit two time and guess what happened to me nothing major at all i am fine i just have a stiff back that is it. the guy that was in the truck hurt his leg and his back and the other car i haven't heard but nothing bad i know that so my weekend wasn't as fun as i was hoping i am sore. but i shouldn't complain i am fine i walked away from that crash i thank heavelny father for his help in keeping me save. but in brigter news i will get a new car in amonth or two! well i hope everyone else had a great weekend. mine wasn't very fun but i am able to go to the next week. well talk to you all soon. pump is in a few more weeks see you all then!!!!

hello

HELLO FRIENDS

WOW!!! How time has flown by it has been about 2 or 3 months since I have wrote in my blog or really talked to anyone that reads the blog and I get this call today from a great friend and he told me that I need to up date my blog and tell people what I have been up to! So this is my attempt to update on what has happened over the last few weeks. My girl friend is home she has been home since the end of June I went down and picked her up so she has been a been taking up a lot my time I love her and I am so glad that she is home. The sad part is she goes home in about 2-3 weeks!!

My good friend Jared up and left me though he has moved to salt lake so I don’t have a close climbing partner anymore it has been really boring at the rec with out my good friend jared but he has moved on to better things and I wish him the best of luck. I have been climbing with corey a bunch, me and him climb about once a week with each other but the last few weeks it has been slow we haven’t been able to climb as much as we would like.

I am moving on with my jobs I am headed to work for my dad again he is paying me more and it will be good for me I haven’t had to truly work in a while my job at the hotel isn’t really that hard and I would like to stay more busy and be more productive! So today is my last day at the hotel I am happy and sad I have some great friends at the hotel and I am going to miss there friendship but I am moving on to new things.

Life is good for me I have had a great summer but as the summer comes to a closes I am getting ready for school and for the climbing comp season I can’t wait to see everyone at the Pocatello pump in a month. I hope that everyone is doing great and that life is treating you well. Please don’t for get about the little climbing in Idaho stop by say hell or leave a comment. Hope to see you all soon

Craig

the crazy travelers

how sad is this i haven't posted in over a month i need to get better at this, so over the last few weeks i have been climbing like crazy traveling back and forth from twin i go down about once a week and go climb with Cory it has been super fun! 2weeks ago i went down and trad climbed sweet line even thought there was bolts right next to it. the line was pure and i really wanted to trad the line so off i went i started climbing super easy then it get to this big bulg super cool part and the crux so i place a BD #2 before i started up the crux that i would say is a good 8-10 feet! i make it up the first four feet with out a problem then i decided to place another peice this being a micro cam from BD .2 small and scary to place so i am just about to pull through the crux and my hands start giving out and sliding out of the crack so i jam it back into the crack and i start sliding out so i am playing this game with my self finger jamming this slopper crack and then i look at my last piece and just hope that it will stay and off i come only putting a 5-6 foot fall in but this is on a micro cam so just a little scared no i was a lot scared but it held and it was an awesome climb! i climbed it right after i chalked the hell out of my hands and the crack. that was the first trad fall of the season and it was a great one. so i have been climbing a lot between here and there and then i had a class fall through at the REC! so i called Cory up and said hey want to drive with me to California on Friday night? he said sure then he also recalled a canyon in the middle of no where that he has wanted to climb in, so i said we could stop at it on the way home so he was super excited for this trip.

so the trip starts to twin and i go pick Cory up from twin it is about 2:15 or so and we hit the road with 11 hours ahead of us i get into drive mode and just crank out about 5.75 hours then i see this canyon and i asked him if this was the one and he said yes so i am just drilling over the lines that i can see from the road but we just keep driving and i we both looked at each other and i told him on the way back he said ok. these lines looked sick. so we make it to vegas around 9:15 or so and fill up on food and gas then we hit the road with another 3.5 hours so to shorten up this up. we make it to Alta loma and i drop cory off at his sisters and then i drive over to loma linda another 30 mins in the car and went to bed at kates home. saturday we went to church it was good he talked about how we need to be prepared for death and not scared of it. it was just a great points. then we went back to the house and changed into some hiking shoes and jeans and we went up to what is called forest falls it was really cool the water was super cold and i am so glad that i didn't have to get into it. then we went back to the house got her studying stuff went to the store bought some food then we went to a house she was watching and i made her dinner it was fun. after dinner she studied i rested/naped then we went back to her house and went to bed i left sunday morning picked up cory and headed back it was a great weekend on the way back we stopped at the canyon it was impressive much taller then it looks from the road there ended up being ancores on the top which wassn't expected so that made it nice but a 5.9 5.10 crack was super cool place ments were good rock was solid and it was a sweet line after that line and an hour and a half later we hit the road again 8 more hours from there and i got home around 1:30am it was a great trip and i am so thankful for my crazy friends that will drive with me for 26 hours so that we can go climbing and see friends and family so thanks Cory! well i am off to work enjoy everyone and Hope to see everyone soon

craig

ps cory, jared and I will be at city and castle this weekend if anyone wants to join let us know

isn't weather great

so i just want everyone to know that the weather is crazy if you have been stuck inside you are not missing much i drove to twin on wed the worst day of the week to do some climbing in a lava tube. it is a really fun place to climb but the holds are really sharp! the drive down wasn't bad just windy not to wet, so we meet cory at the flying jay right off the freeway it started to rain but this didn't bother me because this cave is so over hung it doesn't matter really what it is doing out side you should stay dry. so we drive out there it it just keeps getting worse rain turns to snow and it is super windy! so we park the car and almost run out to the cave get in the cave and climb for a little bit it was good a little cold for my liking but we climbed anyways! so it finally gets Dark and we can't see anymore it the cave so we start to head out and what do we find we find about 1" to 2" of snow on the ground. come on it is april it shouldn't be snowing so we get in the car and start to head back and it was white out conditions it sucked by the time we made it to twin it was back to a rain but the weather was super weird. so i really wrote this blog to just take some time out of work i have a long day ahead of me and it is going to be a slow one! but i do get to go get on a plane later today i am flying down to california to see Kate so i am super excited for that but i have to wait until tonight i don't leave until 7:00 but that is ok!

well life is good here i am just hanging inthere i am still climbing and traveling alot and i work as well but i prefre climbing of course hope all of you are doing well stay out of trouble and hope to see everyone soon. have a terriffic day and climb hard

wow a whole month

holy cow it has been a month since i have posted how sad!a lothas happened over the last few weeks we had comps to climb and set at, we have had good weather, so i have been climbing as much as possible! i have been attempting this climb that is only a 13a but for some reason it wont let me finish it i just come flying off at the top which might i say sucks, i hate it when you are 4 feet from the end and you can't hang on it makes you feel week but it is such a great route and that is why i keep going back to it! we had spring break 2 weeks ago and my Kate came home for the week so i was able to hang out with her for a week which was really nice. she is such a great person and i am so happy that i know her. i took her caving and she was awesome she said she would never do it again but she hung in there and made it all the way through! so thanks Kate for being adventurous! this last weekend i went to the city of rocks and did some fun lines found this 12c/d that is super cool has a roof in it, can't wait to do that one again. it was so much balance and so technical i really liked it.

this month is just full of climbing and travel! this next week i am heading to Moscow for a big comp and it should be super fun and then we are hopefully stopping in Riggins to do some bouldering. then the next weekend i am flying down to California to go see Kate and go to the beach and it should be super fun also, the last week in April i might be going to SLC to go see some friends so that should be a blast as well!

i hope everyone is doing well and i hope that we all have a trip together soon. because i miss the wonderful people of eastern Idaho and we should all go climbing or camping or better yet both well i need to get back to work hope to hear from you all soon

THE GREAT DAY OF TODAY

what a great week! this week is so packed tons of things to do! plus at the end of the week i get to see my friends, as we all travel to utah! i just hope that everyone is having as great of a morning as i am! i get to go climbing today!maybe i can get some more good ideas for the comp i have to set for this week. and maybe i will climb another 13a today that would be cool and then i am going to strat working the 13c that i would like to do! also time has changed so that means we can climb later we should have time to travel and still climb!i hate the winter hours because i can't climb once i get off work unless i go to the gym. the gym is getting old i really want to start climbing out side more! so start planning the trips and lets all go play! everyone have a great day and see you in a couple of days

life

life is great i relized i haven't posted or done anything really to let my friends know what i have been up to. so it hought i would give it ago at work! so at the climbing wall at the rec center our 6week long comp is coming to an end this week is the last week and we have the finally on saturday so i am sad and way excited at hte same time! so for the past 6 weeks i get to watch people work out 9 routes and see there skills improve and there confidence get better. i have watch some climbers that have never climbed before this comp and now he found a new talent and he is pretty strong for never climbing before! i love wathing people fall in love with the sport of rock climbing. so i have been climb at leslie gulch alot lately and i finialy got a 13b it took me 4 days but after i got it drilled into my brain i sent it on the 8 redpoint atempt it is a really pumpy route i fell off the last move 5 times the other two were at a bump but it is a really rad climb i hope to climb it many more times to come! so to all of my climbing friends there is a comp at the rec center on the 10th and 18th you should come see us and come climb on some good routes and go climbing in twin on the 19th with me i am wanting to go to the tubes or derkies lets go climb on the 19th for fun well i should get back to work hope everyone is doiong well and i hope to see everyone soon!

the guys hope for a vacation

THE GUYS TRIP ON APRIL 12-16TH

April 12th
Leave Nampa at 4:00pm
2 hour drive
Arrive in Twin Falls @ 6:00pm
Leave Twin Falls @ 6:30pm
3.5 hour drive to SLC
Arrive in SLC @ 10:00/10:30pm
Leave SLC @11:00pm
3.5 hour drive to St. George
Arrive in St. George @ 2:30/3:00am
SLEEP!!!!!!
April 13th

Wake up 7:00 am
Get to rock around 8:00am or earlier
Play at Black rock in the morning and then follow the shade!
Climb all day
Head towards Las Vages after dark
Sleep at mile 13 camp ground

April 14th
Wake up and go climb all day pull hard and have fun!

Night time start the drive to Flag Staff! find some where to camp

April 15-16th climb at flag staff all day on the 15th and half to ¾ of the day of the 16th! drive home on the 16th with ripped hands and lots of energy drinks!


Tell me what you think!!!!!

RED ROCKS!

so last week i got to go to red rocks and st george with Cory King it was way fun bad weather but we made the best out of it but i thought i would share acouple of pictures with you i hope that i get to go back and finish some climbs and hang with some friends. hope to see you all this weekend at the front climbing comp and hope you are all doing well.

Snow Boarding

so this is me and a friend that went to sorlder moutain and went snow boarding it was great there was about 18" of fresh powder it was great for this small of a resort it was great lifts are slow but it was one of my faviorite so far! we are at 7200 ' so the snow was really fluffy great trip can't wait to get back









so i took this picture on the way home from the moutain and it is sweet looking so i thought i would share















The love birds!




MY LIFE DEAL WITH IT!



HOW DO YOU EXPLAIN THE UNEXPLAIN-ABLE!? TO SOME ONE THAT DOESN'T UNDERSTAND?!!!

FOR THE GUYS

SO I SAW THIS POSTER ON LINE AND I COULDN'T STOP LAUGHING! SO I THOUGHT I WOULD SHARE WITH YOU! LADIES PLEASE DON'T BE AFENDED!!!

A great life

So over the past two weeks I have had a great life! Last week was thanks giving a lot of people got to go eat great food with family me I got to sit in a car for 13 hours I headed for Denver on thanksgiving day it kinda sucked that I didn't get to hang out with any of my family but climbing is what I enjoy so much and it was a one time opportunity so I took it. Cory king, my dad and I went it was a great time to hang with all of them. While in Denver I got to go to one of the best gyms ever the Spot it was so cool pictures can't give it what it deserves. I also got to go to "rockn and jamn 1 and 2" they are gyms that I recommend the comp was at rockn and jamn 1 I went and played at rockend and jamn 2 on Saturday after the comp. It was a 45 deg. Angle or steeper for about 40-55 feet it was so pumpy it was great. I did ok at the comp I placed 7th it was really good to put all my climbing skills to work. I was hoping for 5th or better but it didn't happen and I had a great time and that is all that matters. I hope to go back and climb at these gyms again maybe we could all go in one one car and spilit the gas it would be a lot of fun!

after NACC (North American Continental Championship) was over I told my parents that I would cut my hair and look for a job so one Tuesday I cut my hair it is now way short and some people like it I am not a big fan I liked my longer hair but cutting my hair payed off I went job searching on Thursday planning on not finding anything and just wasting some time. When I first met time he was working at the front desk of a hotel and I thought to my self that would be fun so that is what I have been looking for watching the newspaper and looking in windows well on Thursday I went to holiday inn express and they highered me on the spot so I am now working at the holiday inn express off of the eagle exit I started the next day (Friday) I have worked two days Friday and Saturday I really like it for only being there for twodays it has been a lot of fun and I hope that it stays that way back and legs hurt a lot from standing for 7 to 8 hours strait bit it really is a lot of fun the people you get to meet and customer service that I will learn will be great to have.

I am way excited for the comp this weekend and I hope a lot of people are coming it should be a lot of fun Marcus set some cool stuff for us all and I will see you all on Saturday!

slot canyon's

so i am told that i need to post. the only problem is i don't have much to post about i just got back from a training session in the twin area, to help me get ready for NACC this weekend which i am way excited for and yet i am so scared at the same time i am climbing with some of the best in all of north america which is kinda cool. so i head to denver on thrusday me and my dad and cory are going! it kinda sucks that we are leaving on thanksgiving but it is how it works so we deal. i also just got pictures from some slot canyons that me and a guy did acouple of weeks ago they weren't very slot ish but it was fun to go on a day hike i can't wait to go and finish one of them but here are the pictures that we got. hope you enjoy! i will have a big post next week i hope you all have a great thanksgiving! and i hope you are all planning on coming to cruxmas with jared and i on december 9th.

1st photo: wild cat canyon
2nd photo: jump creek
3rd photo: deep in jump creek
4th photo: the falls at jump creek don't jump you would die!

GREAT FRIENDS

SO I GOT BACK TODAY FROM A GREAT WEEKEND! I GOT TO HANG WITH ALOT OF MY FRIENDS. I FORGOT HOW MUCH FUN IT IS TO STAY UP LATE AND CHAT WITH FRIENDS I DIDN'T RELIZE HOW FUNNY PEOPLE CAN BE AT 3 AM. WELL MY TRIP STARTED WITH TOLMAN FORGETING HIS WALET IN HIS VAN WE WERE ABOUT TO GET ON THE FREE WAY I AM SO GLAD THAT HE REMEMBERED WHEN HE DID SO WE DROVE BACK TO MY HOUSE AND GRABED HIS STUFF AND OFF WE WENT. WE STOPED IN TWIN TO PICK UP CORY AND WE DROVE ALL THE WAY TO POCATELLO WE ROLLED IN AROUND 1:30 ISH AND THEN CORY, TOLMAN, TIMMY, AND ME LAUGHED OVER DUMB THINGS IT WAS GREAT WE GOT UP THE NEXT MORNING WENT OUT FOR BREAKFEST AND JUST CHILLED TOLMAN WENT AND DID SOME JOB SEARCHING AND CORY AND I WENT SLACK LINING IT WAS ALOT OF FUN ABOUT 12 WE HEADED TO IDAHO FALLS WE FOUND JO AND KORI AND HUNG WITH THEM FOR A LITTLE. THEN ME AND CORY HEADED OFF TO REXBURG TO GO SEE SOME FRIENDS AND TO GO CLIMB TOLMAN JO AND KORI DID SOMETHING. THEN WE ALL WENT AND SAW "FLY BOYS" IT WAS A REALLY GOOD MOVIE I REALLY ENJOYED IT! WE HEADED BACK TO JO'S PLACE SLEPT AND GOT UP EARLY SATURDAY MORNING AND HEADED TO MONTANA. WE GOT THERE WITH NO PROBLEMS AND IN GOOD TIME WE GOT TO THE GYM AND WERE AMAIZED BY THERE NEW WALL (IT WAS SO BEAUTIFUL I WISH I HAD A GYM LIKE THAT TO TRAIN IN) WE STARTED CLIMBING AROUND 1:30 AND WE CLIMBED UNTIL 5:30 THEY HAD GREAT ROUTES FROM V FUN TO V HARD I HAD A GREAT TIME I CAME IN 2ND PLACE OVER ALL IT WAS JUST A GREAT COMP I CAN'T WAIT TO GO BACK NEXT YEAR. WE HEADED BACK GOT IN LATE AND THEN WE STARTED CHATING LIKE FRIENDS DO AND WE STARTED LAUGHING AND WE COULDN'T STOP! ONCE WE RAN OUT OF AIR WE FELL ASLEEP AND WE SLEPT UNTIL 9:30 WE SLEPT IN ALITTLE TO LONG DID A SHORT AND FUN BIKE RIDE AND HIT THE ROAD. THE END

I JUST WANT TO THANK MY FRIENDS FOR ALL THE GREAT TIMES WE HAVE HAD AND THAT ARE STILL TO COME. I DON'T KNOW WHERE I WOULD BE IF IT WASNT' FOR MY GREAT FRIENDS, SO THANKS FOR ALL OF YOUR LOVE THAT YOU ALL GIVE! I HOPE WE ALL GET TO HANG OUT SOON!

city and castle

so my life has been so crazy! over the past two weeks! and yet i have been able to climb at the city of rocks, castle rock, the nampa rec. center, and the front in SLC. i have been able to hang out with alot of my friends. i am very happy that i have so many friends.

so i headed down to the city of rocks on the 19th jared and i stayed in twin with his mom. we got up on friday and had breakfest with an old friend of tolmans it was really fun to hang with her and watch tolman and her catch up on life. she has a beautiful baby girl and she is really sweet. after spending 3 hours at I HOP we headed to the city to meet up with marcus! we found him sleeping in the back of his car at bath rock. so we woke him up and we went and looked for some cool bouldering. after looking at a few rocks we found what we were looking for. so we went and got the pads and started climbing in the bitter cold! we did the first boulder for about an hour or so. then we moved to the next one which was super hard and way cool! we found a roof boulder problem at the city, so next time some one tells you that the city is all slab tell them they are wrong and go bouldering. i was the only person to climb it! GO ME! it had a really really hard top out! i can't wait to go and try it again and try the other problems that we found! after this problem we were pretty shot, we were really tired so we went and just hung out in bell, while we waited for the girls and hoped that the snow would stop falling! after we got tried of hanging in bell and thought that the girls should be almost there we started walking down the road expecting to find them. little did we know that they got lost and drove all the way to utah. so after walking about 1.5 miles we decided to walk back. once we were back marcus and i set up camp and went to bed. the girls showed up later that night. i slept until morning! we climbed at the city on staurday and had a great time the group we showed around showed up around 1 ish and we just climbed in the city the rest of saturday. after the sun went down we headed to camp and talked with everyone and went to bed. on sunday we headed to castle rock did a fun multi pitch to show our newby climbers what big wall was about even though we only went up 200 feet. after we got off that climb i went and found marcus and the ladies and did this cool climb that marcus new about. great climb! on our way back to find the rec. group me and marcus saw this really cool looking boulder me and him went and looked and we did a cool line once we were on top we looked over one of the edges and found a really really hard line me and marcus were never able to climb it we think it goes about V11 or so but who really knows the line just to the right of it goes about V 6/7 and it was really good. marcus and i worked the V11 for about 1.5 hours then we started the hike out thanks to that V11 marcus and my hands were raw and we didn't climb any more that day. we headed out for the cars and drove home! this trip was one of the best trips to the city that i have ever had i hope that i get to go with everyone again once weather gets better thanks for coming everyone!

city trip

so i head for the city of rocks tonight! so i am way excited to get there, and start climbing i love the city there is nothing like it in the world and i am happy that it is only 3 hours form my house which makes it really nice when we need some where to travel.

the pictrue to your right is of castle rock! i did a sweet treverse and then climbed a 5.10 a/b i think the funny part was we thought it was bolted and when i got there it was a trad i only had 4 cams on me and two sets of nuts for only doing trad a couple of times i was a little scared. but it went well and it is one of my favoirte climbs at castle and i hope to go back and climb it again! with more cams! if you have never been to castle get your butt in gear and head out there it was a beatiful climbing area and if you like the city you will love castle! the best part about castle is you have to walk in so when you are climbing you don't hear cars drive by and it makes climbing much more enjoy able i hope to see some of you there this weekend if not me and jared should be coming through the area on november the 3rd we are going to a comp in bozmen MT. hope some of you can go with us!

colonoscopy 5.13a/b

This is a climb i am working on it is a 5.13 a/b, it is sick i am going to try and lead it once i have it down but i belive i will be the first to lead it becase it is trad and the crux is the top and there is no where to place it would be at least a 15' fall every time on to not the best of pecies but we will see if i get gutsie enough!?!?! so all of you hard climbers come and climb there is tons of fun climb around. well i will let you know if i lead it! thanks brad for the sweet photo by the way!
climb on everyone!!!