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August 29, 2014

Grand Valley Climbing Gym Update! Opens Sept 13!!!!

The gym from the outside. A new building designed for the gym, not the other way around like most older gyms. The heating, air conditioning and environment was designed to be pleasant and easy to move around in, in addition to allowing the members to see what their friends are doing!

After entering the gym, this wall will be on your right. At 44ft tall, it has been designed to be a great place for beginners and intermediate climbers learn to top rope and lead. Most of the wall is lower angle and vertical with some minor features accenting the climbing. There are about 20 top ropes that will be set which will keep everyone climbing and happy, even at the busiest times!

Still some construction going on (actually they are moving out the tools to build the walls because they are all done. Now it is time to install the state of the art Asana flooring system which will make climbing in the bouldering area worry free! Notice the free standing boulder behind the tools. It is large and in charge with great angles to climb on!

More of the bouldering area. The walls are over 10 ft tall which allows the routes to be more than 2-3 moves long! Again, the area was designed with big sweeping clean angles to allow for lots of variety in the setting. There is plenty of overhanging and vertical terrain to please everyone.

Boom! The pit at 50 ft tall (plus overhang distance). We have 40 routes up and will keep putting more on the walls. I had a chance to try some of the climbs in addition to setting a few and the wall just keeps going. It is a nice place to work on technique, endurance, leading and even falling! Notice the 10 +ft tall ladder in the lower right of the photo.

More of the pit. There are routes of all grades and styles on these beautiful walls.

This is how you access the pit. There are cubbies for your bags. Notice the lighting, there are no dark spots in this gym.

Again the rest of the pit. This wall is slightly overhanging to vertical and will allow some cool techy routes to be set.

June 17, 2014

Off Time

April 29, 2014

Playing in Golden

Playing at the Clear Creek water park.

Orson is a tank, no terrain will stop him.

Jane and top Jimmy

Don't fall in little one : )

Orson thinking about climbing the net that his older brother just tackled.

Rowan and Zack getting dirty.

More car seat time with the boys.

Rest Stop fun with the Family

Jane and Orson hanging at the park.

Rowan liked chasing the front end loader.

Or ham : )

Rowan got to fly to kite for the first time.

He is learning how the string goes out fast when the wind picks up fast.

Rowan makes friends pretty quickly. He ran up to this boy and grabbed his hand and took off chasing and kicking his ball with him. After a few minutes they were laughing and playing together like best friends!

Rowan and Bikes

He is learning to glide and coast on his bike. Balance is coming slowly but he is having a blast learning at the local bike park!

We had a bike sale at my high school to raise money for our students. Rowan and I helped sell them in the rain.

With every storm comes a rainbow.

Rowan getting it done on the trails.

April 24, 2014

2 More Slide Shows!!

Contact Piz at pizem@hotmail.com for Motivational/Instructional/Entertaining Speaking Engagements, Climbing Instruction, Training and Weekly/Monthly Training Programs

Until then... Get outside and have an adventure!

piz : )

Thanks to my amazing sponsors: www.arcteryx.com www.camp-usa.com www.scarpa.com www.sterlingrope.com www.americanalpineclub.org www.brewersledge.com

  I have two great shows coming up.

The first one is FREE and at the Colorado Mesa University
When:       April 30 7ish (i think)
Where:      CMU campus (student center upstairs) That is in Grand Junction folks!
What:        Tehipite Dome First Ascenting
Why:         Wednesday Night Wandering Series
Swag:         Yes, Arcteryx, CAMP, SCARPA

The next on is on May 6th

Who:         The Western Slope Medical Society.
What:         Climbing Adventures and Injuries!
Where:       Some swank place that you need to buy tickets too!

If you are a doctor and want to join in the fun, come on down for the dinner. I promise that I will add some flavor to your dinner!

April 17, 2014

Climbing in Gateway

I have always wanted to try this route that Joe Mills got the ffa of in Gateway.
Mike B and i went out on a COLD day and froze our butts off while checking it out.

Hiking up the talus.

New SCARPA Vitimins taking me up the hill.

Mike fighting the cold of the first pitch. The second goes through the roof and to the left.

The third one is the crux. Overhanging .75's oooh the toughest cam for me to climb. It was nice to get worked!!

Hanging out on the wall. We needed the big jackets on this day.

Great climbing and a good time : )

Perfet placements for those .75 inch cams!

Zion New Routing Part 1

The team, two crackpot climbers Andy Reather and Mike Brumbaugh.

I can't take them anywhere, they always get lost!!

However we did find some attractive spots!

Rapping down the wall. Find a large tree. Tie a figure eight in the Sterling Rope and retrace it. Rap and let the exploration begin!
I went down the wrong crack at the beginning and had to jug back up and move the rope over to the actual crack that we wanted to explore. What a pain!

The view of Angles Landing.

We finally got inside the monster chimney. It was wide, dirty and awesome!!The right side of this picture turned out to be an amazing 5.12- splitter that was originally partially aided.

The monster chimney looms above. 900ft tall route all ready to be climbed!!

Western Colorado Climbers Coalition Black Light Comp

Here are some poor images of the festive night at the Grand Junction Climbing Center.
We (WCCC) were doing a fundraiser for a purchase of more wall in Unaweep Canyon.
We had a great turnout and had a great time climbing in the dark.
I believe we raised about 1300 dollars which is HUGE!!
Thanks everyone for donating and buying raffle tickets and having fun!!

Special thanks to SCARPA and CAMP for the goodies too!