Introduction

I started climbing in the winter of 2007 at Central Washington University's indoor climbing gym.

Climbing was just a fun activity I did every once in a while until that summer. 

That summer I joined Edgeworks climbing gym in Tacoma, WA and began to treat climbing as a sport. 

I climbed consistently for about a half year until I decided to join Track & Field for the university. 

When I stopped climbing in winter of 2008, I was climbing somewhere between v4 and v5. 

I picked climbing up again in the winter of 2010 to enter a contest at CWU. 

The contest tracked the feet my partner and I climbed. The goal was to collectively total the same footage as Mt. Everest from base to summit: roughly 13,800 feet of vertical climbing. 

We ended with close to double that amount. I scaled that 35 foot wall almost 400 times that month.

I'm proud of our accomplishment, but I'm more thankful for the experience with my climbing partner, Darrell. We had a blast.

--And we each won a rope! which I sold, because I didn't think I would ever continue the sport. 

Short lived was my second run at climbing.

She doesn't know this, but I eventually began to climb again after reading one of the "100 reasons why I love Kyle" my girlfriend gave me. It said, simply, "I love your passion for climbing." She had written it years before when I first started climbing. 

--I thought about what climbing had done for me and what kind of person I was when it was in my life. 

I hope to post more on those thoughts later, but for now I'll say that they were more than enough to inspire me to climb again. 

I've been climbing very consistently now since August of 2010. 

At my best, and by Seattle Bouldering Project's standards, I'm climbing v7. 

Throughout these periods, I've climbed mostly indoors. However, I've spent a good amount of time at Frenchman Coulee, Gold Bar, Exit 32, Exit 38, and Smith Rock.

My passion is bouldering, but I enjoy sport as well. 

I've never climbed trad, but am eager to do so.