Bouldering

Bouldering is a great adventure. I was sportclimbing 5.10 and did not have the power to send 5.11 crux moves. Realizing that I needed more power, I spent one winter in 1998, bouldering at Rainbow Rocks in SOCAL with a crew of highly motivated climbers. This experience of climbing without ropes gave me more confidence and incresed my climbing power. That next year, I began to send 5.11 sportroutes in such places as Frustration Creek, Mt. Williamson, and New Jack City. In early 2000 I moved to the Southeast U.S. and began bouldering in such places as Horse Pens, AL and Rock Town, GA. The sandstone bouldering in the Southeast is awesome.

Climbing tip: You can trade power for endurance, but you cannot trade endurance for power