PIKE PLACE ON A RARE SUNNY DAY
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Sunday, October 31, 2010
claudiu and alina
PIKE PLACE ON A RARE SUNNY DAY
Thursday, October 28, 2010
i have never been so honored
there is not much greater honor than to be made into a halloween costume.
melina you are wonderful
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
BOO Fritz!!!!
years ago there was this kid who would come to all the comps wearing a tie dyed tshirt. he was in youth D. i tried to recruit him. he denied me. in a snotty little boys voice he said that he climbed for cascade crags and he wasnt leaving.
a couple seasons later he joined my team. he and his family have become one in a long line of wonderful families and climbers to have grown from this amazing rock climbing team. it is guys like alex who make this team what it is today and what it will continue to be for years to come. he has stayed true to the Team VC code and makes me proud every time he climbs.
way to go buddy. lets go bouldering, i've been training.
here is an article written in the Herald where Alex talks garbage about football players.
Monday, October 25, 2010
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Sunday, October 24, 2010
leavenworth team trip
adam and I spent the last couple days in leavenworth with a group of the kids from team. we got some great climbing in on saturday and even though it was raining most of sunday we were able to get quite a few boulders in. we had a ton of fun. Ronya was able to climb a V3. emmaline was sending V4s all day. brekkan, clare and trevin were getting it done as well.
Aran and i were trying some harder stuff. i have been to leavenworth 2 times in the last 4 years i think. once the spring before last and then this weekend. the most frustrating part is getting on problems i used to be able to do and getting served. this weekend was a different story.
i did dangle (v7) again, and kobe tai (v8) again. and even did the coffee cup (v10, seemed a bit soft) after about an hour. ive been training boulders for the past month or so and it seems to be working. it feels good after a short summer of not climbing much at all.
we had a cabin out there and it was fun seeing a few generations from my climbing team hangin out. corinne, from the first group of kids i ever coached is now 24 yrs old. chelsea just aged out, and all the ones who are currently on team. it was fun.
Monday, October 18, 2010
Erden is still going strong
our friend Erden is still killing it on his attempt to circumnavigate the globe via man power.
check his latest post from his website. and check his tracker.
October 18, 2010 (Day 98)
I was having trouble with my modem connection by satellite phone. It kept dropping, making emails and dispatches impossible. It remains unreliable, I may have partially fixed it, time will tell.
I now have a spare oar, ready for use. When I found the epoxy, I started the work to assemble it. While I was on para-anchor waiting in the cabin a while back, I began to prepare the shorter handle side of the broken oar.
With the shaft diameter being the largest at the handle and tapering down toward the blade, I had to slide the also tapered 70 cm long plug, which I had already cut from a different shaft, down from the end toward the break. I had wrapped electrical tape at the end of the plug both as an even spacer for centering the plug and as a gasket to contain the epoxy that I was to pour. When jammed in place, the plug extruded about 40 cm past the break, leaving about 30 cm inside. I placed four little rolls I had prepared evenly around the plug to center it at the break as well, then once I fashioned a little paper cone taped in place to serve as a funnel, I was ready to pour epoxy in the 3-4 mm gap between the plug and the shaft.
I stood the oar shaft on its end then tied it to the corner of my footwell. Its total length with the plug was about 1.5 meters. I mixed two parts by volume of epoxy with one part hardener in a plastic cup which I had sacrificed for the cause. The wind was down to 15-20 knots but still too strong for the job at hand. At 25 knots, the darn wind blew food off my spoon! At 15, it wanted to blow the epoxy past my funnel. I managed to get most of the epoxy where it was intended; the gap filled with epoxy up to 2 cm from the break. I let the shaft rest overnight for the glue to set. In 24-hours, it would be rock hard.
Before gluing the blade end of the broken oar, some preparation was necessary. I had to make sure that the blade would have a "zero pitch angle" meaning that when the oar was placed in the oarlock, the blade would go in and out of the water vertically. This is unlike racing shells where a small pitch angle is introduced to the blade. This feature literally lifts the racing shell in the water to counter the upward and backward momentum of the rower when all the strength of the legs are applied to pull on the oars once the blade enters the water -- that moment is called "the catch."
So I lined up the blade and marked the correct angle with some tape on either side of the break which I would match later. I wrapped electrical tape again at the tip of the plug before I inserted it into the remaining blade side shaft. When the plug jammed, the separation at the break was about 4 cm to account for the jagged carbon fiber shaft ends that I had cut using a hacksaw; therefore the total length of the oar shaft remained about the same. Because of different shaft tapers from separate oar manufacturers, the gap to fill with epoxy was much tighter in this section of the oar. I centered the plug by setting four tiny wedges around it that I had cut by sacrificing two laundry clips.
Pouring epoxy in that gap was a battle. When I stood the oar on its blade, the break stood at about 2.4 meters. That was at my chin level when I stood high astride the footwell. Any side to side movement from the rolling motion of the boat was amplified up there, so lining up the epoxy cup with the funnel was tough. The job required two hands, but I also felt insecure wanting to hold on. The cabintop was level with my hips; I had to keep pumping my knees to counter the bucking boat. And IF I lined up the funnel, the wind blew half of the epoxy glue away splattering it all over. A lot of grunting and cussing later I managed to get some glue in place, then quickly sacrificed a towel to wipe down. That glue as well had to set over the following 24-hours.
With the plug firmly positioned, I could now continue the work by laying the oar on the deck. I wrapped plastic sheet tightly across the 4 cm separation to act as a mold. The sheet was cut from a ziploc bag; epoxy does not stick to such plastics. I taped the sheet in place then placed a new paper funnel on the top side of the separation. When I poured epoxy, it propagated down into the shaft horizontally. I helped it flow by tapping the shaft with the handle of a heavy diving knife. Soon the entire space around the plug including the 4 cm separation at the break was filled with epoxy. This too had to wait another 24 hours.
Next, I wanted to make the best use of my remaining epoxy. I wished I hadn't wasted so much while pouring in the wind, oh well... I cut four 20 cm sections of 4-inch medium weight fiberglass tape. I wet two of those with epoxy and placed them lengthwise across the separation which had by now been filled evenly with the outside shaft surface. The two four inch width tapes were wide enough to overlap about 1 cm on their edges. I used another plastic sheet to wrap over the fiberglass then gently massaged through it to remove any significant air bubbles underneath. Another 24 hours passed before I laid another two sheets of fiberglass tape. These layers of tape would act like a splint on the outside of the shaft, and prevent any tendency of the carbon fiber shaft edges at the junction to splinter.
Another 24 hours and I was done. All I had to do was to reattach the handle. When the excess glue dried completely, I was able to peel it out of my plastic cup as well. It was a nice bonus to recover my cup.
My oar is probably stronger now, and certainly heavier. It sure displays better back on my starboard rack than in pieces for weeks on my deck.
Erden.
check his latest post from his website. and check his tracker.
October 18, 2010 (Day 98)
I was having trouble with my modem connection by satellite phone. It kept dropping, making emails and dispatches impossible. It remains unreliable, I may have partially fixed it, time will tell.
I now have a spare oar, ready for use. When I found the epoxy, I started the work to assemble it. While I was on para-anchor waiting in the cabin a while back, I began to prepare the shorter handle side of the broken oar.
With the shaft diameter being the largest at the handle and tapering down toward the blade, I had to slide the also tapered 70 cm long plug, which I had already cut from a different shaft, down from the end toward the break. I had wrapped electrical tape at the end of the plug both as an even spacer for centering the plug and as a gasket to contain the epoxy that I was to pour. When jammed in place, the plug extruded about 40 cm past the break, leaving about 30 cm inside. I placed four little rolls I had prepared evenly around the plug to center it at the break as well, then once I fashioned a little paper cone taped in place to serve as a funnel, I was ready to pour epoxy in the 3-4 mm gap between the plug and the shaft.
I stood the oar shaft on its end then tied it to the corner of my footwell. Its total length with the plug was about 1.5 meters. I mixed two parts by volume of epoxy with one part hardener in a plastic cup which I had sacrificed for the cause. The wind was down to 15-20 knots but still too strong for the job at hand. At 25 knots, the darn wind blew food off my spoon! At 15, it wanted to blow the epoxy past my funnel. I managed to get most of the epoxy where it was intended; the gap filled with epoxy up to 2 cm from the break. I let the shaft rest overnight for the glue to set. In 24-hours, it would be rock hard.
Before gluing the blade end of the broken oar, some preparation was necessary. I had to make sure that the blade would have a "zero pitch angle" meaning that when the oar was placed in the oarlock, the blade would go in and out of the water vertically. This is unlike racing shells where a small pitch angle is introduced to the blade. This feature literally lifts the racing shell in the water to counter the upward and backward momentum of the rower when all the strength of the legs are applied to pull on the oars once the blade enters the water -- that moment is called "the catch."
So I lined up the blade and marked the correct angle with some tape on either side of the break which I would match later. I wrapped electrical tape again at the tip of the plug before I inserted it into the remaining blade side shaft. When the plug jammed, the separation at the break was about 4 cm to account for the jagged carbon fiber shaft ends that I had cut using a hacksaw; therefore the total length of the oar shaft remained about the same. Because of different shaft tapers from separate oar manufacturers, the gap to fill with epoxy was much tighter in this section of the oar. I centered the plug by setting four tiny wedges around it that I had cut by sacrificing two laundry clips.
Pouring epoxy in that gap was a battle. When I stood the oar on its blade, the break stood at about 2.4 meters. That was at my chin level when I stood high astride the footwell. Any side to side movement from the rolling motion of the boat was amplified up there, so lining up the epoxy cup with the funnel was tough. The job required two hands, but I also felt insecure wanting to hold on. The cabintop was level with my hips; I had to keep pumping my knees to counter the bucking boat. And IF I lined up the funnel, the wind blew half of the epoxy glue away splattering it all over. A lot of grunting and cussing later I managed to get some glue in place, then quickly sacrificed a towel to wipe down. That glue as well had to set over the following 24-hours.
With the plug firmly positioned, I could now continue the work by laying the oar on the deck. I wrapped plastic sheet tightly across the 4 cm separation to act as a mold. The sheet was cut from a ziploc bag; epoxy does not stick to such plastics. I taped the sheet in place then placed a new paper funnel on the top side of the separation. When I poured epoxy, it propagated down into the shaft horizontally. I helped it flow by tapping the shaft with the handle of a heavy diving knife. Soon the entire space around the plug including the 4 cm separation at the break was filled with epoxy. This too had to wait another 24 hours.
Next, I wanted to make the best use of my remaining epoxy. I wished I hadn't wasted so much while pouring in the wind, oh well... I cut four 20 cm sections of 4-inch medium weight fiberglass tape. I wet two of those with epoxy and placed them lengthwise across the separation which had by now been filled evenly with the outside shaft surface. The two four inch width tapes were wide enough to overlap about 1 cm on their edges. I used another plastic sheet to wrap over the fiberglass then gently massaged through it to remove any significant air bubbles underneath. Another 24 hours passed before I laid another two sheets of fiberglass tape. These layers of tape would act like a splint on the outside of the shaft, and prevent any tendency of the carbon fiber shaft edges at the junction to splinter.
Another 24 hours and I was done. All I had to do was to reattach the handle. When the excess glue dried completely, I was able to peel it out of my plastic cup as well. It was a nice bonus to recover my cup.
My oar is probably stronger now, and certainly heavier. It sure displays better back on my starboard rack than in pieces for weeks on my deck.
Erden.
bend climbing team
bend climbing team blog had a write up about our comp last weekend in tacoma.
thanks mike and nice job.
thanks mike and nice job.
Sunday, October 17, 2010
enzo discusses the Real Madrid game while linus couldnt care less
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Saturday, October 16, 2010
Friday, October 15, 2010
verticalworld routeset comp crew
I love this crew. What jason and brian used to do at stonegardens over a decade ago was setting the standard in the northwest. Now years later, they have stepped back into the game. Its so much fun. There is a lot of routesetting lineage in this picture. It all comes full circle.
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signed and delivered
All done. 65 problems tested, tweaked and done. 15 hours total.
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Thursday, October 14, 2010
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Banksy does the simpsons
saw this when it was aired. it was even a little farther out than usual simpsons.
now i understand why.
here is the interview with al jean.
now i understand why.
here is the interview with al jean.
Banksy does the Simpsons from Transfer.TV on Vimeo.
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
oh man this is awesome
i forgot how great this show was. i am watching it right now on boomerang channel. arabian knights, danger island, and of course the splits. this brings back many memories. direct TV rules.
Sunday, October 10, 2010
trevors nameless bulldog
Trevor just adopted this rescue bulldog. She is very sweet as you can see.
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tacoma throwdown
here are a few problems i set for our tacoma throwdown that was a couple weeks ago.
alex fritz, jonny goicheachea and ryan olsen on display.
alex fritz, jonny goicheachea and ryan olsen on display.
check back this weekend october 16th when we are having our ABS comp at tacoma and prolly some more classics from me.
Saturday, October 9, 2010
tyson vs audrey
I decided to compete today in the second session. Audrey and i are going head to head. Neither of us doing very well. More training for me. And less competing against the oldguy for her.
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max bachar
Here you see max becker harnessing the bachar/chionard look. Its working.
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stoneworks comp
First ABS comp of the year. Me and adam are down here. They have opened up the space nicely.
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Thursday, October 7, 2010
new team bags
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Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
puccio on the cover of outside magazine
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Sunday, October 3, 2010
wayward then climbing.
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sounders win
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