LORD, HIGH AND HOLY, MEEK AND LOWLY,

Thou hast brought me to the valley of vision,
where I live in the depths but see thee in the heights;
hemmed in by the mountains of sin I behold thy glory.

Let me learn by paradox
that the way down is the way up,
that to be low is to be high,
that the broken heart is the healed heart,
that the contrite spirit is the rejoicing spirit,
that the repenting soul is the victorious soul,
that to have nothing is to possess all,
that to bear the cross is to wear the crown,
That to give is to receive,
that the valley is the place of vision.

Lord in the daytime stars can be seen from deepest wells,
and the deeper the wells the brighter
they starts shine;

Let me find thy light in my darkness,
thy life in my death
thy joy in my sorrow,
they race in my sin,
thy riches in my poverty,
thy glory in my valley

Stole it from this cool cat.

Name: Garrett

Age: 17

Location: currently, Santa Barbara

Type(s) of climbing you do: Sport, bouldering, a bit of trad.

Years you’ve been climbing: messing around for about 2 1/2 in it seriously for about a year and taking it really seriously for about 4 months.

How often you climb: 2-4 times a week

Home crag(s): Gibraltar, lizards mouth, skofield park, the brickyard, the playground, fire crags, san ysidro, a few more.

Favorite crag(s): The valley, J tree, bishop.

Where you’d love to go climbing: Hueco, more yosemite, the incredible hulk, more j tree, more bishop, moab, indian creek, euro crags,

Home gym: Andy’s garage and rarely vertical Heaven

Rating you climb at (V_, 5._): v3-v4, 5.10b

Hardest onsight (V_, 5._): V3, 5.10a

Hardest send (V_, 5._): V3-v4, 5.10d

Favorite route & where: Really like the movement on Diving for Rocks at the green belt but kinda over that crag…climbed this super dope 5.9 in bishop, fav climb right now is probably T-crack on Gibraltar 5.10+

Favorite problem & where: Panic in the streets at Lizards mouth v3 was one of my first bigger sends, really fun.

Got any projects?: When you’re building strength every route is a project. T-Crack is my main project at the moment… goal is to lead it on gear by the end of the school year. sorta sketch.

Shoes you wear: 5.10 moccasym and La Sportiva mythos

Favorite gear companies: Five Ten, Black Diamond, Organic, all of it.

Favorite climbing clothes companies: Patagonia, first ascent, western mountaineering, arcteryx

Any sponsors?: nope

Do you compete?: nahbrah, get outside.

Interesting experiences: climbing is always interesting. (via dustin via Veronica, couldn’t say it any better)

Any bad climbing injuries: Not yet.

Goal(s) you would like to achieve: lead 11.s and beyond in the next 2 months, send v6 and beyond soon. Really want to do some long lines. Keep building my rack. Get on the Hulk (Red Dihedral anyone??) also, nutcracker in the valley.

Perfect pre-climbing food: chocolate covered espresso beans. Straight sending fuel right there.

Favorite jams to climb to: Barry White in the garage. Never music outside.

Do you train at all?: Climbing is the best training yo.

Favorite climbing movies: If big up or sender make it, I like it.

Anything else?: Have been obsessed with climbing for a long time but have only recently been in a place where I can start actually making progress…and dang does it feel good.

Bought my first cam yesterday….This doesn’t bode well for my financial future.

frencanada91:

My new obsession

You know you’re doin’ it right when you have way more climbing gear packed than clothes for your trip home.

So I love bishop. Now I understand why it’s a destination, it’s sooo goooooood! We arrived late at the pit late on the night of the 21st. Went straight to bed. Woke up to beautiful snow-capped peaks right outside my tent. After breakfast we headed out to Owens River Gorge and ended up climbing in lower gorge which has an awesome approach of a gentle grade on a closed road for about a mile+. The gorge is super sick. Kind of out of this world, really barren. The shade was absolutely freezing and the one route I did with partial shade had my hands completely numb by the top. I took two pretty big whippers, which were pretty fun. Glad to have taken some falls, but really wish I had sent the route. While I definitely enjoyed climbing there, it wasn’t my fav sport crag ever. It’s fricken huge though and am definitely looking forward to exploring it more sometime in the future. We spent the next day at the buttermilks. Oh my. That place is so incredibly sick. Definitely want to climb their again. The weather was perfect, shirts off at some points. Was really sick seeing some of the hardest problems in the world and climbing with über strong people. Left at 6am the next morning…Or at least tried to, ha. We were parked on a SLIGHT incline which was just enough to make the miniscule amount of gas in the car not enter the engine. After about 15 min of freezing frustration we got it started and began our 6 hour drive home.
Awesome trip. Go to Bishop. I know I will. Videos and pictures soon.

tl;dr: Went to bishop and loved it

Leaving in an hour for Bishop!!
Might do some bouldering in the buttermilks but mostly gonna be roping up in Owens River Gorge. Stoked to really push myself and take some whippers!

Anonymous asked: Post a picture of yourself??

Here you go creepy anon.
A picture of me deep in concentration slacklining a few weeks back.