Boulder

Decided to post a few shots I took earlier this semester before my camera was stolen. That's right, stolen. But fear not! The kid who stole it decided to pawn it two days after, and didn't consider I might give the cops the serial number, and that they might find the camera and all the kid's information at the pawn shop. Yes, it's true, the police found my baby. Unfortunately, I have yet to have it returned to me, as it is still "evidence".

Food at a  Farmers Market

Friends

Hikes

Some plates.

Tomatos

View from the flatirons.

The Royal Arch

This Guy

-WB

Much Needed Update

Home

Hello, again. I know it's been quite a while. I also know that in the course of the past year or so, I've started far too many posts with this same apologetic spiel.  I promise this time is different, however. This time I'm writing you not from the soggy Northeast, but the sunny and mild Southwest!

Boulder, Colorado is now the place I call home, and part of me feels that in a lot of ways, it's always been home. I have never before felt as if I am exactly where I'm supposed to be, or perhaps it simply takes a complete uprooting and a massive change in lifestyle to remind us that every situation is indeed what we make of it. Perhaps I had so made up my mind about the Northeast, about leaving, that I had made myself blind to the things I really loved. Now thousands of miles away my perspective has shifted. I miss my friends, I miss my town, I miss my car, I miss the rock gym. But it is all what you make of it, right? Well, what I'm making of Boulder is: college is outlandish, the people of Colorado are so friendly I could puke, and the rock here is incredible.

I've managed to get out a few times with my friend Alex Enright (also a freshman, also from out east), and picked up a membership at The Spot. We've made it to Rocky Mountain National Park to try a few rigs in lower chaos, we've toyed around in Flagstaff, and hiked much further than we ever intended to in Eldorado Canyon. Of these various expeditions, I've collected a number of new projects that I am so excited to spend the year attempting. 

These two are currently in my sights:

Deep Puddle Dynamics - V9 is freaking rad. Little crimps, glassy slopers and a BURLY finish.

Resonated - V9 is beautiful! Situated right next to a stream. Climbs out a thuggish arete.

There is so much rock here! It excites me to think I might never see it all. I guess that's all the more reason to get out and continue living my life. 

Hopefully you guys haven't forgotten about me! I haven't forgotten about you! This blog is still my homepage, a constant reminder of my commitment to write my life as it unfolds, filling the spaces between what I know now and what I'll know then. 

Thanks for sticking around, I'll post a few more things today, mostly pictures with back-story pertaining more to my life out here than climbing.

-JP