Reel Rock Film Tour

Vote for "Vertical World"! Spencer Victory's production shot at Red River Gorge!

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Happy Birthday to Me!

So Wednesday was my birthday and I must say, the people that love me have spoiled me this year. Steph got me a Jetboil cooking system and my parents got me a Tokina 12-24 f/4 wide angle lens! I can't wait to make hot spiked cider and shoot epic bouldering pics this fall!

In other news, I really am sick of this heat. My birthday was the hottest day of the year thus far with heat indices of 115 all day, and it shows no sign of breaking. I feel super motivated to climb and take pictures but all my plans are in a holding pattern until the weather breaks, which will be another month probably.

I signed up to take the LSAT in October! In a rare show of initiative I also got a prep book for the exam so I don't fly in completely blind. The first recommendation of the book was to take a practice test, which I did. Scored a 166 (95 percentile), which is pretty decent, but hopefully I can raise it another 5 points or so on the actual exam.

Top 3 Law School Prospects:

UNC Chapel Hill, NC
UC Boulder, CO
Cornell Ithaca, NY

So this Saturday-Wednesday Steph and I are gonna be out at the Red! Hopefully I can tick off some hardish routes despite the heat and put some beta work on some harder routes for the Fall. We're taking road bikes too so should be a good time!

Kevin Jorgeson at Hueco Tanks

Hueco Rock Rodeo ticklist (top 6 problems count)

v11,v13,v12,v12,v12,v12

Updates from the North

Tyler relaxes in the "seat" after the mental Crux of 'First Amendment'

Me Working 'Red Scare' V8 (Photo by Matt Lowber)

Tyler sticks the crux of 'Rock Biter' V7/8
Some Quick Updates from Alaska.

First Tyler Johnson decided Alaska was the place to be, so he drove up here and has been crushing. He's also found a job and is working on a place to stay when it gets chilly.

Bouldering.

Hatcher Pass is the place to be, some sick boulders in the newly established Independence Mine area offer super crimpy hard problems.

Some fun sends:

'Rock Biter' V7/8. Tyler sent this after only a few goes in a single day, I came back three days later and flew up this third go of the day.

Captain Kaboom: V1?

Unknown V3

Unknown V6

I've also worked a sick super crimpy problem sent for the FA later that day by Matt Lowber, it goes V8 and was christened 'Red Scare.'

Wookie Wall:

Tyler, My friends Rachel Silverstein and Aleks Pfaffe, and I made a trip to Wiener Lake to climb at Wookie wall. Tyler tested himself on the goofy climbing of the area on the warmup: 'First Amendment' 5.11a, falling at the difficulty crux, he sent second go. We also worked 'Face the Damage' 5.11b/c, a pumpy route with a hard hand jam crux. Tyler tested his onsight ability on 'Breaking the Chains' falling at the first crux and the upper crux while figuring out crucial beta. Tyler and I also worked a sweet powerful 5.13a called 'Illuminati' which has a dead point and a full dyno crux, this we decided was fairly stout for the grade, probably meriting a 5.13a/b rating.