Welcome!

So this is a project I've been thinking about doing for a long time now: a years worth of Climbing Journal. I've been a climber for over 10 years now (!), and the experience is deeply intense and at the same time very ephemeral. I've done a little writing about it, but I'd like to try to document a year of my climbing activities: mostly rock, with some ice and steel.

Writing about climbing is tricky. It is easy to slip into the trap of numbers and jargon (Dude, I was stemming up this rad 5.10 dihedral and I was really sketched out but I placed a #1 Camalot...) Very few people (in my not very humble opinion) write about climbing well. Jon Krakauer is one, but he is mainly a mountaineer, which (to the befuddlement of non-climbing friends and family) I am emphatically NOT. Anyway, I'll do my best to make this journal well-written and interesting even to the non-climber. No promises. Screw it, it's mainly for my own consumption anyway. Though you, gentle reader, are of course welcome to read too. Maybe I'll even post pictures!