well it has been four weks sence i last posted , we have been very bizy in getting moved to twin falls yesterday i moved all of our stuff over hear, we are staying with my mother for a little while, we are going to pay off the last of our bills, we are so excited by this september once the van is completly payed off we will have no more bills we are so excited for that, as well as shortly after that i will start going to school.
not much else has been going on Zoe is getting bigger and cuter by the day she and jessica went down to Manti with her parents to start getting ready for thanksgiving and to give grandma patty some much needed time with zoe.
i will be joining them down in ten days for thanksgiving , and all this week will be working and traviling to castle rock to climb with frends for the week. it should be good times i am really hoping to come back with pics and hope to climb the smeal , out of africa and pissy pance. all good looking lines.
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Monday, October 12, 2009
general confrence and new news
well me and Jessica have some new big news
last week my boss called and asked if he could transfer me to twin falls to take over the bread route there. after talking about it we saw that this would be a great opportunity to get a head in life and so we are in the proses of moving all our stuff to twin falls. we are staying with my mom until our apartment in Pocatello sells , so if you can keep us in your prayers that our apartment sells that would be appreciated.
during all of this big mess it was conference last weekend, which we watched or listened to, i enjoyed the conference, but was touched by one talk so in case you didn't have a chance or desire to watch or listen to it i thought i would post this talk which so powerfully moved me i hope you read it and enjoy it as i did.
But there is one kind of latter-day destruction that has always sounded to me more personal than public, more individual than collective—a warning, perhaps more applicable inside the Church than outside it. The Savior warned that in the last days even those of the covenant, the very elect, could be deceived by the enemy of truth.1 If we think of this as a form of spiritual destruction, it may cast light on another latter-day prophecy. Think of the heart as the figurative center of our faith, the poetic location of our loyalties and our values; then consider Jesus’s declaration that in the last days “men’s hearts [shall fail] them.”2
The encouraging thing, of course, is that our Father in Heaven knows all of these latter-day dangers, these troubles of the heart and soul, and has given counsel and protections regarding them.
In light of that, it has always been significant to me that the Book of Mormon, one of the Lord’s powerful keystones3 in this counteroffensive against latter-day ills, begins with a great parable of life, an extended allegory of hope versus fear, of light versus darkness, of salvation versus destruction—an allegory of which Sister Ann M. Dibb spoke so movingly this morning.
In Lehi’s dream an already difficult journey gets more difficult when a mist of darkness arises, obscuring any view of the safe but narrow path his family and others are to follow. It is imperative to note that this mist of darkness descends on all the travelers—the faithful and the determined ones (the elect, we might even say) as well as the weaker and ungrounded ones. The principal point of the story is that the successful travelers resist all distractions, including the lure of forbidden paths and jeering taunts from the vain and proud who have taken those paths. The record says that the protected “did press their way forward, continually [and, I might add, tenaciously] holding fast” to a rod of iron that runs unfailingly along the course of the true path.4 However dark the night or the day, the rod marks the way of that solitary, redeeming trail.
“I beheld,” Nephi says later, “that the rod of iron . . . was the word of God, [leading] . . . to the tree of life; . . . a representation of the love of God.” Viewing this manifestation of God’s love, Nephi goes on to say:
“I looked and beheld the Redeemer of the world, . . . [who] went forth ministering unto the people. . . .
“ . . . And I beheld multitudes of people who were sick, and who were afflicted with all manner of diseases, and with devils and unclean spirits; . . . and they were healed by the power of the Lamb of God; and the devils and the unclean spirits were cast out.”5
Love. Healing. Help. Hope. The power of Christ to counter all troubles in all times—including the end of times. That is the safe harbor God wants for us in personal or public days of despair. That is the message with which the Book of Mormon begins, and that is the message with which it ends, calling all to “come unto Christ, and be perfected in him.”6 That phrase—taken from Moroni’s final lines of testimony, written 1,000 years after Lehi’s vision—is a dying man’s testimony of the only true way.
May I refer to a modern “last days” testimony? When Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum started for Carthage to face what they knew would be an imminent martyrdom, Hyrum read these words to comfort the heart of his brother:
“Thou hast been faithful; wherefore . . . thou shalt be made strong, even unto the sitting down in the place which I have prepared in the mansions of my Father.
“And now I, Moroni, bid farewell . . . until we shall meet before the judgment-seat of Christ.”7
A few short verses from the 12th chapter of Ether in the Book of Mormon. Before closing the book, Hyrum turned down the corner of the page from which he had read, marking it as part of the everlasting testimony for which these two brothers were about to die. I hold in my hand that book, the very copy from which Hyrum read, the same corner of the page turned down, still visible. Later, when actually incarcerated in the jail, Joseph the Prophet turned to the guards who held him captive and bore a powerful testimony of the divine authenticity of the Book of Mormon.8 Shortly thereafter pistol and ball would take the lives of these two testators.
As one of a thousand elements of my own testimony of the divinity of the Book of Mormon, I submit this as yet one more evidence of its truthfulness. In this their greatest—and last—hour of need, I ask you: would these men blaspheme before God by continuing to fix their lives, their honor, and their own search for eternal salvation on a book (and by implication a church and a ministry) they had fictitiously created out of whole cloth?
Never mind that their wives are about to be widows and their children fatherless. Never mind that their little band of followers will yet be “houseless, friendless and homeless” and that their children will leave footprints of blood across frozen rivers and an untamed prairie floor.9 Never mind that legions will die and other legions live declaring in the four quarters of this earth that they know the Book of Mormon and the Church which espouses it to be true. Disregard all of that, and tell me whether in this hour of death these two men would enter the presence of their Eternal Judge quoting from and finding solace in a book which, if not the very word of God, would brand them as imposters and charlatans until the end of time? They would not do that! They were willing to die rather than deny the divine origin and the eternal truthfulness of the Book of Mormon.
For 179 years this book has been examined and attacked, denied and deconstructed, targeted and torn apart like perhaps no other book in modern religious history—perhaps like no other book in any religious history. And still it stands. Failed theories about its origins have been born and parroted and have died—from Ethan Smith to Solomon Spaulding to deranged paranoid to cunning genius. None of these frankly pathetic answers for this book has ever withstood examination because there is no other answer than the one Joseph gave as its young unlearned translator. In this I stand with my own great-grandfather, who said simply enough, “No wicked man could write such a book as this; and no good man would write it, unless it were true and he were commanded of God to do so.”10
I testify that one cannot come to full faith in this latter-day work—and thereby find the fullest measure of peace and comfort in these, our times—until he or she embraces the divinity of the Book of Mormon and the Lord Jesus Christ, of whom it testifies. If anyone is foolish enough or misled enough to reject 531 pages of a heretofore unknown text teeming with literary and Semitic complexity without honestly attempting to account for the origin of those pages—especially without accounting for their powerful witness of Jesus Christ and the profound spiritual impact that witness has had on what is now tens of millions of readers—if that is the case, then such a person, elect or otherwise, has been deceived; and if he or she leaves this Church, it must be done by crawling over or under or around the Book of Mormon to make that exit. In that sense the book is what Christ Himself was said to be: “a stone of stumbling, . . . a rock of offence,”11 a barrier in the path of one who wishes not to believe in this work. Witnesses, even witnesses who were for a time hostile to Joseph, testified to their death that they had seen an angel and had handled the plates. “They have been shown unto us by the power of God, and not of man,” they declared. “Wherefore we know of a surety that the work is true.”12
Now, I did not sail with the brother of Jared in crossing an ocean, settling in a new world. I did not hear King Benjamin speak his angelically delivered sermon. I did not proselyte with Alma and Amulek nor witness the fiery death of innocent believers. I was not among the Nephite crowd who touched the wounds of the resurrected Lord, nor did I weep with Mormon and Moroni over the destruction of an entire civilization. But my testimony of this record and the peace it brings to the human heart is as binding and unequivocal as was theirs. Like them “[I] give [my name] unto the world, to witness unto the world that which [I] have seen.” And like them, “[I] lie not, God bearing witness of it.”13
I ask that my testimony of the Book of Mormon and all that it implies, given today under my own oath and office, be recorded by men on earth and angels in heaven. I hope I have a few years left in my “last days,” but whether I do or do not, I want it absolutely clear when I stand before the judgment bar of God that I declared to the world, in the most straightforward language I could summon, that the Book of Mormon is true, that it came forth the way Joseph said it came forth and was given to bring happiness and hope to the faithful in the travail of the latter days.
My witness echoes that of Nephi, who wrote part of the book in his “last days”:
“Hearken unto these words and believe in Christ; and if ye believe not in these words believe in Christ. And if ye shall believe in Christ ye will believe in these words, for they are the words of Christ, . . . and they teach all men that they should do good.
“And if they are not the words of Christ, judge ye—for Christ will show unto you, with power and great glory, that they are his words, at the last day.”14
Brothers and sisters, God always provides safety for the soul, and with the Book of Mormon, He has again done that in our time. Remember this declaration by Jesus Himself: “Whoso treasureth up my word, shall not be deceived”15—and in the last days neither your heart nor your faith will fail you. Of this I earnestly testify in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.
NOTES1. See Matthew 24:24; see also Joseph Smith—Matthew 1:22.2. Luke 21:26. 3. See History of the Church, 4:461.4. 1 Nephi 8:30.5. 1 Nephi 11:25, 27–28, 31.6. Moroni 10:32.7. Ether 12:37–38; see also D&C 135:5.8. See History of the Church, 6:600. 9. Joseph Smith, in History of the Church, 4:539.10. George Cannon, quoted in “The Twelve Apostles,” in Andrew Jenson, ed., The Historical Record, 6:175.11. 1 Peter 2:8.12. “The Testimony of Three Witnesses,” Book of Mormon.13. “The Testimony of Eight Witnesses,” Book of Mormon; emphasis added.14. 2 Nephi 33:10–11; emphasis added.15. Joseph Smith—Matthew 1:37.
last week my boss called and asked if he could transfer me to twin falls to take over the bread route there. after talking about it we saw that this would be a great opportunity to get a head in life and so we are in the proses of moving all our stuff to twin falls. we are staying with my mom until our apartment in Pocatello sells , so if you can keep us in your prayers that our apartment sells that would be appreciated.
during all of this big mess it was conference last weekend, which we watched or listened to, i enjoyed the conference, but was touched by one talk so in case you didn't have a chance or desire to watch or listen to it i thought i would post this talk which so powerfully moved me i hope you read it and enjoy it as i did.
By Elder Jeffery R. Holldand
But there is one kind of latter-day destruction that has always sounded to me more personal than public, more individual than collective—a warning, perhaps more applicable inside the Church than outside it. The Savior warned that in the last days even those of the covenant, the very elect, could be deceived by the enemy of truth.1 If we think of this as a form of spiritual destruction, it may cast light on another latter-day prophecy. Think of the heart as the figurative center of our faith, the poetic location of our loyalties and our values; then consider Jesus’s declaration that in the last days “men’s hearts [shall fail] them.”2
The encouraging thing, of course, is that our Father in Heaven knows all of these latter-day dangers, these troubles of the heart and soul, and has given counsel and protections regarding them.
In light of that, it has always been significant to me that the Book of Mormon, one of the Lord’s powerful keystones3 in this counteroffensive against latter-day ills, begins with a great parable of life, an extended allegory of hope versus fear, of light versus darkness, of salvation versus destruction—an allegory of which Sister Ann M. Dibb spoke so movingly this morning.
In Lehi’s dream an already difficult journey gets more difficult when a mist of darkness arises, obscuring any view of the safe but narrow path his family and others are to follow. It is imperative to note that this mist of darkness descends on all the travelers—the faithful and the determined ones (the elect, we might even say) as well as the weaker and ungrounded ones. The principal point of the story is that the successful travelers resist all distractions, including the lure of forbidden paths and jeering taunts from the vain and proud who have taken those paths. The record says that the protected “did press their way forward, continually [and, I might add, tenaciously] holding fast” to a rod of iron that runs unfailingly along the course of the true path.4 However dark the night or the day, the rod marks the way of that solitary, redeeming trail.
“I beheld,” Nephi says later, “that the rod of iron . . . was the word of God, [leading] . . . to the tree of life; . . . a representation of the love of God.” Viewing this manifestation of God’s love, Nephi goes on to say:
“I looked and beheld the Redeemer of the world, . . . [who] went forth ministering unto the people. . . .
“ . . . And I beheld multitudes of people who were sick, and who were afflicted with all manner of diseases, and with devils and unclean spirits; . . . and they were healed by the power of the Lamb of God; and the devils and the unclean spirits were cast out.”5
Love. Healing. Help. Hope. The power of Christ to counter all troubles in all times—including the end of times. That is the safe harbor God wants for us in personal or public days of despair. That is the message with which the Book of Mormon begins, and that is the message with which it ends, calling all to “come unto Christ, and be perfected in him.”6 That phrase—taken from Moroni’s final lines of testimony, written 1,000 years after Lehi’s vision—is a dying man’s testimony of the only true way.
May I refer to a modern “last days” testimony? When Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum started for Carthage to face what they knew would be an imminent martyrdom, Hyrum read these words to comfort the heart of his brother:
“Thou hast been faithful; wherefore . . . thou shalt be made strong, even unto the sitting down in the place which I have prepared in the mansions of my Father.
“And now I, Moroni, bid farewell . . . until we shall meet before the judgment-seat of Christ.”7
A few short verses from the 12th chapter of Ether in the Book of Mormon. Before closing the book, Hyrum turned down the corner of the page from which he had read, marking it as part of the everlasting testimony for which these two brothers were about to die. I hold in my hand that book, the very copy from which Hyrum read, the same corner of the page turned down, still visible. Later, when actually incarcerated in the jail, Joseph the Prophet turned to the guards who held him captive and bore a powerful testimony of the divine authenticity of the Book of Mormon.8 Shortly thereafter pistol and ball would take the lives of these two testators.
As one of a thousand elements of my own testimony of the divinity of the Book of Mormon, I submit this as yet one more evidence of its truthfulness. In this their greatest—and last—hour of need, I ask you: would these men blaspheme before God by continuing to fix their lives, their honor, and their own search for eternal salvation on a book (and by implication a church and a ministry) they had fictitiously created out of whole cloth?
Never mind that their wives are about to be widows and their children fatherless. Never mind that their little band of followers will yet be “houseless, friendless and homeless” and that their children will leave footprints of blood across frozen rivers and an untamed prairie floor.9 Never mind that legions will die and other legions live declaring in the four quarters of this earth that they know the Book of Mormon and the Church which espouses it to be true. Disregard all of that, and tell me whether in this hour of death these two men would enter the presence of their Eternal Judge quoting from and finding solace in a book which, if not the very word of God, would brand them as imposters and charlatans until the end of time? They would not do that! They were willing to die rather than deny the divine origin and the eternal truthfulness of the Book of Mormon.
For 179 years this book has been examined and attacked, denied and deconstructed, targeted and torn apart like perhaps no other book in modern religious history—perhaps like no other book in any religious history. And still it stands. Failed theories about its origins have been born and parroted and have died—from Ethan Smith to Solomon Spaulding to deranged paranoid to cunning genius. None of these frankly pathetic answers for this book has ever withstood examination because there is no other answer than the one Joseph gave as its young unlearned translator. In this I stand with my own great-grandfather, who said simply enough, “No wicked man could write such a book as this; and no good man would write it, unless it were true and he were commanded of God to do so.”10
I testify that one cannot come to full faith in this latter-day work—and thereby find the fullest measure of peace and comfort in these, our times—until he or she embraces the divinity of the Book of Mormon and the Lord Jesus Christ, of whom it testifies. If anyone is foolish enough or misled enough to reject 531 pages of a heretofore unknown text teeming with literary and Semitic complexity without honestly attempting to account for the origin of those pages—especially without accounting for their powerful witness of Jesus Christ and the profound spiritual impact that witness has had on what is now tens of millions of readers—if that is the case, then such a person, elect or otherwise, has been deceived; and if he or she leaves this Church, it must be done by crawling over or under or around the Book of Mormon to make that exit. In that sense the book is what Christ Himself was said to be: “a stone of stumbling, . . . a rock of offence,”11 a barrier in the path of one who wishes not to believe in this work. Witnesses, even witnesses who were for a time hostile to Joseph, testified to their death that they had seen an angel and had handled the plates. “They have been shown unto us by the power of God, and not of man,” they declared. “Wherefore we know of a surety that the work is true.”12
Now, I did not sail with the brother of Jared in crossing an ocean, settling in a new world. I did not hear King Benjamin speak his angelically delivered sermon. I did not proselyte with Alma and Amulek nor witness the fiery death of innocent believers. I was not among the Nephite crowd who touched the wounds of the resurrected Lord, nor did I weep with Mormon and Moroni over the destruction of an entire civilization. But my testimony of this record and the peace it brings to the human heart is as binding and unequivocal as was theirs. Like them “[I] give [my name] unto the world, to witness unto the world that which [I] have seen.” And like them, “[I] lie not, God bearing witness of it.”13
I ask that my testimony of the Book of Mormon and all that it implies, given today under my own oath and office, be recorded by men on earth and angels in heaven. I hope I have a few years left in my “last days,” but whether I do or do not, I want it absolutely clear when I stand before the judgment bar of God that I declared to the world, in the most straightforward language I could summon, that the Book of Mormon is true, that it came forth the way Joseph said it came forth and was given to bring happiness and hope to the faithful in the travail of the latter days.
My witness echoes that of Nephi, who wrote part of the book in his “last days”:
“Hearken unto these words and believe in Christ; and if ye believe not in these words believe in Christ. And if ye shall believe in Christ ye will believe in these words, for they are the words of Christ, . . . and they teach all men that they should do good.
“And if they are not the words of Christ, judge ye—for Christ will show unto you, with power and great glory, that they are his words, at the last day.”14
Brothers and sisters, God always provides safety for the soul, and with the Book of Mormon, He has again done that in our time. Remember this declaration by Jesus Himself: “Whoso treasureth up my word, shall not be deceived”15—and in the last days neither your heart nor your faith will fail you. Of this I earnestly testify in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.
NOTES1. See Matthew 24:24; see also Joseph Smith—Matthew 1:22.2. Luke 21:26. 3. See History of the Church, 4:461.4. 1 Nephi 8:30.5. 1 Nephi 11:25, 27–28, 31.6. Moroni 10:32.7. Ether 12:37–38; see also D&C 135:5.8. See History of the Church, 6:600. 9. Joseph Smith, in History of the Church, 4:539.10. George Cannon, quoted in “The Twelve Apostles,” in Andrew Jenson, ed., The Historical Record, 6:175.11. 1 Peter 2:8.12. “The Testimony of Three Witnesses,” Book of Mormon.13. “The Testimony of Eight Witnesses,” Book of Mormon; emphasis added.14. 2 Nephi 33:10–11; emphasis added.15. Joseph Smith—Matthew 1:37.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
the submarines
sorry this took so long to post but hear they finale are. when Jess first got pregnant we decided to go see the submarines, hear are some pics and videos. this first one is me and Jess with the lead singer
the band
Monday, September 14, 2009
lessons from the pump
Well this past weekend was the Pocatello pump and as you know me I was just to involve to even begin think of take a picture. But over all it was a pretty good weekend, saw many faces I had not seen in a while and enjoyed my time climbing with friends and family.
I would like to point out one thing, I have noticed that climbing is a great sport, once you get the gear that is needed it can be a very cheap sport. You can climb for some time with out ever really needing to replace something.
What I have learned from the pump is don’t be the climber who is so selfish that you take and take and take from this great sport. Give back! Give back to climbing, I am really happy to participate in the pump, to give money and clean up time to the sport I love so much. I am proud to say that I have spent time and money in helping old climbs become safer, to be apart of developing new climbs, and being a active participant in my climbing community, as well as giving donations to organizations that also help keep climbing open to the public.
Over all I am saying don’t just take, remember to give back to what you love, as me and a friend where saying this weekend it dose feel so much better to help some one or something than to just worry about your self.
I would like to point out one thing, I have noticed that climbing is a great sport, once you get the gear that is needed it can be a very cheap sport. You can climb for some time with out ever really needing to replace something.
What I have learned from the pump is don’t be the climber who is so selfish that you take and take and take from this great sport. Give back! Give back to climbing, I am really happy to participate in the pump, to give money and clean up time to the sport I love so much. I am proud to say that I have spent time and money in helping old climbs become safer, to be apart of developing new climbs, and being a active participant in my climbing community, as well as giving donations to organizations that also help keep climbing open to the public.
Over all I am saying don’t just take, remember to give back to what you love, as me and a friend where saying this weekend it dose feel so much better to help some one or something than to just worry about your self.
Thursday, August 27, 2009
off the cuff
well its been a very interesting few weeks let me just share with you some of the things that have happened.
two weeks ago Jessica was not feeling so well, so she told me to go ahead and go to church with out here and come back and get her for sacrament meeting. so off i went to priesthood and then taught our Sunday school class. once that was over i called home to see how she was doing, i ended up waking her up. she still was not feeling good so i said i would be home in a min, i wanted to go get a program from our sacrament meeting because stake conference would be next week and i wanted to see what times it would be held at.
i went into the chapel and looked for the programs, there where none at all, i waited around for them and about 3 min before the meeting started one of the bishoprick showed up handing them out. i grabbed one and started walking out of the chapel looking through it to find the times for stake conference, i was stopped dead in my tracks when i noticed the speakers that day where Jared and Jessica Tolman.
i turned ran up to the bishop and asked him if there was a mistake in the program , he said no? i told him that no one had contacted us to speak , he asked no one called you to remind you? i told him no one asked us in the first place.
he looked at me with a blank Stayer, i told him don't get me wrong bishop if you want / need some one to speak i will get up and speak, is there anything you want me to talk on?
he said no just to speak on what i wanted.
so after the sacrament was passed and it was my turn to speak i stood excused Jessica for being sick and introduced our self's and talked for 35 min, leaving the bishop 15 min to take up which was shared with the stake president getting up and talking about the times for conference.
next weekend was conference, it was great we had Elder Foster of the second Quorum of the seventy come and preside, the mission president of the area and his wife spoke. it was great the mission president even picked Jessica out of the crowd cause she was so pregnant and he was talking about raising children.
later that night is when the excitement happened. Jessica's contractions got super bad and her mucus plug came out , so we took her to the hospital where they told us she was ready to give birth so after two hours we welcomed in to the world our little girl Zoe Adriana Tolman what a ride its been but we are so happy to have her hire with us.
for a picture of her go to our familt blog
two weeks ago Jessica was not feeling so well, so she told me to go ahead and go to church with out here and come back and get her for sacrament meeting. so off i went to priesthood and then taught our Sunday school class. once that was over i called home to see how she was doing, i ended up waking her up. she still was not feeling good so i said i would be home in a min, i wanted to go get a program from our sacrament meeting because stake conference would be next week and i wanted to see what times it would be held at.
i went into the chapel and looked for the programs, there where none at all, i waited around for them and about 3 min before the meeting started one of the bishoprick showed up handing them out. i grabbed one and started walking out of the chapel looking through it to find the times for stake conference, i was stopped dead in my tracks when i noticed the speakers that day where Jared and Jessica Tolman.
i turned ran up to the bishop and asked him if there was a mistake in the program , he said no? i told him that no one had contacted us to speak , he asked no one called you to remind you? i told him no one asked us in the first place.
he looked at me with a blank Stayer, i told him don't get me wrong bishop if you want / need some one to speak i will get up and speak, is there anything you want me to talk on?
he said no just to speak on what i wanted.
so after the sacrament was passed and it was my turn to speak i stood excused Jessica for being sick and introduced our self's and talked for 35 min, leaving the bishop 15 min to take up which was shared with the stake president getting up and talking about the times for conference.
next weekend was conference, it was great we had Elder Foster of the second Quorum of the seventy come and preside, the mission president of the area and his wife spoke. it was great the mission president even picked Jessica out of the crowd cause she was so pregnant and he was talking about raising children.
later that night is when the excitement happened. Jessica's contractions got super bad and her mucus plug came out , so we took her to the hospital where they told us she was ready to give birth so after two hours we welcomed in to the world our little girl Zoe Adriana Tolman what a ride its been but we are so happy to have her hire with us.
for a picture of her go to our familt blog
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Old men can still "Bumping Ugly's" V6
Bumping Ugly's V6 is a new boulder problem that we just put up. there is some debate on if some one else has done it before because of the much chalk on the rock , but because its Pocatello and every one seams to Travers more than boulder we think this is a new line , besides who else is dumb enough to pull on holds like these?
Tim found the finish move as we where out the other day just bouldering trying to stay out of the heat, after figuring out how to pull it and top it out we started looking for a start that would work up in to it what we found has now been named Bumping Ugly's. hear are some pics.
Tim telling his feet he dose not hate them but he is going to put his shoes back on so be strong
this is us trying to figure something out
Derick trying to power his way throw it
as you can see it dose not work
there has been this on going joke that my self and Tim are now fat and old, my self being 27 and Tim on his way and that Derick is 19 and way young and way strong. but I'm glad to say that yesterday after only 6 goes i pulled the move and got the first ascent on this problem. we thanked Derick for letting us "old men" show him up ha ha who's old now !!!!
the problem starts on a under cling , where you push up to a crimp
hook your feet and control the swing out, match hands on the crimp
work your feet up just to cut them and throw them to the right for a hill
this next move is the one that separates the boys from the men, roll up with the hill, locking off on the crimp and throw for one of the worst pinchas i have ever healed , the thing is polished glass. unfortunately Tim and Derick are still stuck hear trying to ge the pinch
walk your feet throw re adjust and pop your hand up to the wall , not to a hold you just grab the wall re adjust one more time and throw to the top and top out
its a fun little problem hope to see some of you come play on it. at the end of the day this is Tim showing you what we old men do best:) happy climbing
Tim found the finish move as we where out the other day just bouldering trying to stay out of the heat, after figuring out how to pull it and top it out we started looking for a start that would work up in to it what we found has now been named Bumping Ugly's. hear are some pics.
Tim telling his feet he dose not hate them but he is going to put his shoes back on so be strong
this is us trying to figure something out
Derick trying to power his way throw it
as you can see it dose not work
there has been this on going joke that my self and Tim are now fat and old, my self being 27 and Tim on his way and that Derick is 19 and way young and way strong. but I'm glad to say that yesterday after only 6 goes i pulled the move and got the first ascent on this problem. we thanked Derick for letting us "old men" show him up ha ha who's old now !!!!
the problem starts on a under cling , where you push up to a crimp
hook your feet and control the swing out, match hands on the crimp
work your feet up just to cut them and throw them to the right for a hill
this next move is the one that separates the boys from the men, roll up with the hill, locking off on the crimp and throw for one of the worst pinchas i have ever healed , the thing is polished glass. unfortunately Tim and Derick are still stuck hear trying to ge the pinch
walk your feet throw re adjust and pop your hand up to the wall , not to a hold you just grab the wall re adjust one more time and throw to the top and top out
its a fun little problem hope to see some of you come play on it. at the end of the day this is Tim showing you what we old men do best:) happy climbing
Thursday, July 09, 2009
pics of the trip
i need to take more pics and not climb as much on these trips but hear are some pics of our city and maple trip 
some ask what jessica dose why we are off doing this well we chaught her in her natuiral habitat
some ask what jessica dose why we are off doing this well we chaught her in her natuiral habitat
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
