Solo the Blitzen Ridge

The Black Dagger on the Diamond

Scenic Cruise in the Black Canyon

Any 5.11 at Lumpy (Those Lumpy 11s are freaking hard!)

The Naked Edge

Climb a route on 5 major formations at Lumpy Ridge in a day

Boulder any legit V7

The Ejector Seat at Shelf Road

Make it to Yosemite

Climb the Casual route in 9 hours car to car

Some of these are more realistic than others but it gives me something to strive towards.

Stay out of my orthopedic surgeons long enough that i can take him out of my favorites on my cell phone which means
- no more broken legs
- no more knee surgeries

I need to say I appreciate our relationship, i mess it up and you fix it, but we have to end this relationship cold turkey.....

Is that too much to ask for a goal for 2013?

Climbing goals don't really ever change for me.

So my goals are to continue as I have been for many years now.

Boils down to climbing one hell of a lot, hitting many new areas, doing some FA's, and having a fucking BLAST on the rock!!!

move to Denver
get a decent job
find climbing partners
comfortable with 5.10 trad
12a sport
moonlight buttress
climb 3 days per week
if anyone in denver/boulder needs a partner let me know, im moving in with my girlfrind next month and dont know anybody in the area

Find a decent job, leave Ohio, and move somewhere nearer to good climbing, either in the Southeast or the West. Everything else is going to be minor.

It would also be nice to recover fully from my broken foot (I hear you, Chuck, surgery and recovery time sucks), climb more long routes and fewer sport projects, and see some new crags. Looking back on 2012, I did not go to one new place the entire year, which was my biggest disappointment.

I'd like to be a nicer person overall. As it stands now, I'm somewhat crude and tactless, although honest. Some people value this trait, but more often than not, people value tact and discretion and this is important because I'm a pretty social person. At least I know I'm this way. That's a benefit I think.

Also, I'd like to really focus on getting a handle on my mental game. I psyche myself out far too easily. I'd like to get more quality time on rock. I burned a few trips up this year fucking with people that clog the logistics up. I need to find one or two solid partners that are near my ability range and have the same goals and want to get in as many pitches in as many places in as little time as possible- as opposed to having a large pool of cool people that just want to "go" if that makes any sense. I'd rather spend the majority of my trips with someone that doesn't necessarily make me laugh until I fart around a fire, but is a machine on the rock. Ideally both criteria would be met, but that seems to be tough to find.

I hope everyone gets what they work for this year. Keep stoke alive.

Check out some new areas around Az.
Climb more in Sedona.
Get an FA on a sick-hard line.
Spend more time with the wifey.
Climb more at Cochise (including to the true summit of the Rockfellow Dome).
Send 5.12 trad.
Send a couple more 5.13 sport lines.
Not get injured.

To finally get rid of this damn golfer's elbow that I've had for 14 months.

If that happens, it would be awesome to climb Cap'm Pissgums and maybe make it up to the Black Canyon and/or Canyonlands at some point.

I took only one trip (long weekend) in 2012. Hoping for a few more than that in 2013, although with a baby coming in April I don't know if that will happen. If I do manage a few trips:

-Flash/OS 5.12
-Take my first climbing trip to the Black Hills
-Make it back to one of these areas: Joe's, SoIll, City of Rocks
-Run at least 3 half-marathons and 1 full.

Get a better job so I can afford a car (I live in Brooklyn, NY). I really think not having my own car is the biggest thing holding back my climbing. I'd be out every weekend during the season if I had my own wheels. Meanwhile, I'd estimate not having a car reduces my days on rock by over 50%.

Stay strong and fit
Climb ice every week all winter
Climb rock, lots of rock, and more rock all year
Climb OWs, lots and lots of OWs
Send "Coyne Crack" and "Sweden Ringle"

Alright, I am going big because just a couple of these would be great.

Free ASG
Free Moonlight
Send Terminator
Send more 13 sport
Climb Rainer
A new route in Venezeula

Finally recover from my hand injury

Climb in Bishop

Cut 20-30 more lbs

Boulder V10

Sport 5.13a

Trad 5.11a

Climb the Diamond

Climb in Moab, Joes, Indian creek, Eldo, Rmnp, Rifle, Shelf, and as many other places as possible within driving distance

Get my first AMGA cert.

Celebrate my victory with a beer on my 21st birthday at the end of the year.

1. ski north dakota
2. get rid of this rash

I'm not posting up my goals here. Instead I drew them up in a checklist form and put them on the wall in the kitchen.

I'll see the list every day, on my way to get a beer, or bacon, or brownies, or candy.... maybe I make some dietary goals too.

climb harder. drink more beer. smoke more cigarettes. shouldn't be too hard.

Beat cancer (been fighting hard / non stop since September 2011) and return to climbing and life.

Short term... my goal is to get out of Florida (of which I am working the next 3-4 weeks) back home to the mountains of CO and climb some freaking ice!

Long term get back to climbing 3- 4 days per month with some extended trips mingled in.

v10 or bust

quit being a sissy la la and lead every 5.10 I climb. Oh and lead a 5.10 OW. Specifically Y Crack in the Mcdowells needs to be knocked off my list (ya I know its a 5.9 it's hard) and Generator Crack needs to fall to me.
Also same goal I had last year, climb one destination place a month. Even if it means making overnight drives there and back.