sydney 2008

here are a few shots from sydney australia youth world championships. i cant find my quito ecuador shots from youth worlds 2007.
this was another great trip. really fun. i got to do more site seeing here than i thought. their public transit system is the best. you buy one pass for the train, bus, and ferrys. and they all go where you want to go.
meg and i traveled together. we had a good trip over, and the most epic trip back. our flight got cancelled home, so we had to bum rush the airport at 6am to try to get a flight, got bumped from united, put on quantas, no connection in LA, running around for hours in different airports in different parts of the world. prolly stood in line for 8 hours at different airports while getting shuffled to different lines.
i would not want to do that again.

Imst austria 2006

this shows some shots from the Imst youth world championships. this was a great trip as well. i met kynan in boulder and we flew to london where we did the maintenance on one of the climbing walls on the royal carribean ships(his gym in florida has the contract on this). then we went to barcelona for some more wall work. then switzerland and germany. then austria. i think i took a total of 17 flights during this trip.
loved london, loved barca, loved austria....pretty much love europe.
i think we had a bunch of our kids on US team that year. bhops, boyko, carl, miki, who else? the US team had a whole hotel to ourselves. literally out of a story book, in the mountains of austria, with a hotel that looks like a gingerbread house. amazing place.
this really opened my eyes to what it means to coach. the euros do it for real. we went and trained at innsbruck (yes the mega facility that trains all the austria beasts) and also got to see all the euro teams in full squad.

china 2005

found some shots i took of the youth world championships from 2005. this was my first summer as a coach for the US national team. really a great time. really made some good friends.
kynan, coach kyle, claudiu. thanks for all the good years.
here you will see some scenery shots of awesome chinese history, and a sydney shot, i believe a zeb shot, me with the Iranian climbing team and coaches, the US team, a simon benkert shot with a bunny rabbit in his hand???? this was a great trip.

france 2004

its hard to believe that it was six years ago when i last went overseas to climb. me and a johnny harkness, jess bridges and coco made the trip to ceuse and then font. amazing. but here is a tip, if you are going on a rope climbing trip, dont boulder for a year and expect to be able to hold on for more than 5 bolts, especially in france.
found these shots and brought back memories.

CANNOT WAIT!!!!!!!!!!

the boys

2010

today is the day i start back on the road to killing hard routes. no more cake. no more cookies. no more 1 hr sessions. time to put the head down and go. funny thing is, ive been looking forward to this.