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A Day in the Life

A Day in the Life: Dirtbagging Northern Spain

[After instructing a 3 week introductory climbing course in Spain I found myself with a few free days and a few free friends. This post

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May 27, 2015 2 Comments
A Day in the Life

A Day in the Life: Glacier Mountaineering

[This post describes the worst day of a recent trip for me personally. Lots of great stuff happened too, but its not all fun and games.

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May 25, 2014 No Comments

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Just wrapped up 7 days with Mr. Ethan on the Easts Just wrapped up 7 days with Mr. Ethan on the Eastside of the Sierra this past week...

Ethan and I started climbing together about 8 years ago at @marin_greenplay_camp. He was about 8 years old then, and I got to watch him grow up through camp.

Ethan is 16 now, drives himself to the crag, and has set his future goals high for himself as an aspiring climber. This trip was a really special one watching him lead me up multi-pitch trad routes, whip on hard sport climbs, and take the reigns of the sharp end! Ethan redpointed his first outdoor 5.11 sport pitch this trip (not without some exciting whippers of course), onsighted his first 5.10 trad lead, and followed me up the regular route of third pillar seemingly without effort. 

It's been such a treat to see him excel through coaching and mentorship and get to be apart of his journey in the mountains! 
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Sup nerds! Quick updates: 🌎 New Terrain: Beaut Sup nerds! Quick updates:
🌎 New Terrain:
 Beautiful High Sierra Alpine!!
🐻 Bear Creek Spire
👍 Mt. Goode
🐦 Cardinal Pinnacle
🥉 Third Pillar of Dana
Awesome 7000ft teaching zones!!
🧳 Emigrant Wall (Intro to Multipitch July 20)
⛺ Old Camp Bluff (Intro to Trad July 19)
These are out in the Carson Pass area
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💻 I forgot to mention, epic anchors webinar this Thursday 7pm. Must sign up in advance at the link in bio. I'm teaching what BIG EQUALIZATION doesn't want you to hear. Free your mind, free your proj.
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Much love! 💕
What does a week of private sport clinics look lik What does a week of private sport clinics look like?

Like this 👆👆👆
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This weekends courses! One spot left for trad, two This weekends courses! One spot left for trad, two for multi. Come get learnt with VP!! 🧠 
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Link in bio to signup on the website 🤘
#getlearnt
⚠️⚠️⚠️Attention climbers...⚠️⚠️⚠️

Stop clipping the dumb loop of the Nalgene water bottles without some type of reinforcement.

Love Erik and the VP team...
80ft up, doubling up the little guys, slottin' & s 80ft up, doubling up the little guys, slottin' & slammin'. Placing bomber gear and having fun! Recent trad mentorship day with @eileentt 💪
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Check out our upcoming Trad Clinics and more! Link in bio.
📅 Intro to Trad June 21 @ Lover's Leap (one spot left!)
📅 Intro to Multipitch June 22 @ To Emeralds (2 spots)
📅 Trad | Beyond the Basics June 28 @ Donner Summit
⚖️ As always classes are capped at 4 participants 🤯 for awesome value and personal attention!!!
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Much love from the VP Fam! 💙
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#leadwithconfidence #californiaclimber
Rope management on hanging belays🧗‍♂️🧗 Rope management on hanging belays🧗‍♂️🧗‍♂️

✅️Coil big loops to small loops on your attachment to the anchor if swinging leads or small to big loops if you're block leading.

⚠️If you're ever not sure that the rope will feed well while belaying, you can always take the time to re flake and coil the rope to ensure a smooth belay.
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How do we manage rope effectively on multi pitch s How do we manage rope effectively on multi pitch stances?🤨🧐🤔

If there's a ledge, is it big enough to stack the rope? How should we manage that and what are the pros and cons?🔎

➡️Personally, I'm always looking to stack on a ledge because it's super fast and usually pays out really well, especially when swinging leads. The obvious con is real-estate being taken up that we could use for our personal comfort.

I think the general consensus is, stack it if you can, but be prepared for when you don't have enough big enough ledge go coil it over your attachment to the anchor.
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Crack climbing clinic this Sunday! Come jam some Crack climbing clinic this Sunday!

Come jam some cracks with us!
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Anchor Building Techniques Part 2! This is what y Anchor Building Techniques Part 2!

This is what you all came for! 

To learn how to break all of the rules of anchor building! Building anchors is always seen as a rigid process.. but we can have creativity while creating and building anchors.

Here's some takeaways from this little tech tip video.

🔗metal on metal is okay in an anchoring configuration. We can enchain cams and carabiners to each other while anchor building. Just don't clip a quixkdraw to a racking carabiner on a cam and lead over it.

♻️ we can connect two pieces together to create one leg of an anchor with two pieces. This allows us to use shorter material because you're only equalizing between two points even though there's still 3 pieces in the system.
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⚡️⚡️FREE TRAD CLIMBING BASICS WEBINAR! ⚡ ⚡️⚡️FREE TRAD CLIMBING BASICS WEBINAR! ⚡️⚡️

⏰️ 7:00PM June 5th 🗓

📍Link in bio!!🔗
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Another amazing day of guiding at Lovers Leap! Th Another amazing day of guiding at Lovers Leap!

This is taken from pitch 1 of Psychedelic Tree 🌳 🍄👽🌈⚡️

Come climb badass routes with us this season!

We'll be adding some amazing trips to the calendar including High Sierra alpine climbing! 🏕⛰️🏞
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