So, one month after laying out a prospectus of what I expect of myself over the next few months, I feel that things, thus far, are going reasonably well... That is, when I get the chance to climb...
 

Too Many Aims or Not Enough Effort: Struggling to keep my tick-list manageable and to turn my excitement into concentrated effort
 

A Week in the Life of an Unbelievably Psyched Climber: Bouldering, Training, Hero Worship and Philosophical Thinkings
 

OK, so I just wrote a huge blog article about Bouldering, tonight's Jimmy Marshall Lecture at the Fort William Mountain Festival and my philosophical thinkings on climbing and mountaineering after getting back from a day that has psyched me up beyond belief, but I stupidly somehow pressed 'back' on my web browser and lost the whole flipping thing! Gutted!

It was when I squeezed a hold so hard that blood started to leak from my bloodtest sights in my fingers from earlier today that I realised phase one of my training was well and truly underway! Phase one being trying harder to fail ungracefully and embarrass myself as much as possible to get rid of the 'fear' of failure! this was my first solo session at the wall for what seemed like far too long, and a great opportunity to get back to basics in my bouldering and to put into practice what I'd been reading in my new training book...
 

"What?! We start when?!

 
MADiDEA 2010 Val Grigna, Italy

June 11-13, 2010
Pian dei Resinelli
 
5th International Mountains & Diabetes Meet
 
 

• Speakers
• Mountains
• Fun

 
Friday night opener with Boyan Petrov and Jerry Gore
 

After heading east and being nonplussed with the climbing and wilderness opportunities, we decided to take things as face value and appreciate the various aspects of each locale we visited. We appreciated basically everything east of South Dakota as quickly as possible, taking pictures from the car, not stopping to see much other than a few stops at various relatives of ours along the way.

I would like to share with you all the account of my recent trip, so I will be blogging and posting pictures from the excursion which went from late June 08-November 08. I will be doing this in several installments--hopefully it will entertain and amuse.
Pre Departure Meditations

I have been Type one since 1998, when I was 16 years old. I had no idea how I was going to re-learn how to eat and behave, let alone where I would be ten years down the road. Now I am 26, married and I climb (up to 5.11) boulder to v4 and have spent months at a clip, hiking and climbing in various mountain ranges in North America.