Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Spring is trying to establish itself as the main political actor in today’s quasi-seasonal race for domination. I hope that we can keep with the trends and have spring beat out winter…’cause there is climbing and barefoot fun to be had!
The climbing/bouldering around Morgantown is simply superb. Mo, Steve, and I (and Lilly pup) went out to Pioneer Rocks last week for a little adventure. Here's a nice sequence of Mo conquering the 5.14x named Super Killa…. Ha, 'twas not as difficult as it may seem.






After the day, an alien grapefruit appeared as a gesture of homage to we climbers...we gladly sacrificed it for more juice to get home.


Mo has a little forge set-up out at the rebel base (exact location disputed) in Canrain Valley. Upon first sight of Ben Nelson’s homemade veggie oil burner (literally a metal coffee can with oil inside that has a metal pipe coming off the side, where a hair dryer blows enough air to keep a nice flame going, go Ben!), I wondered if it would be hot enough to forge with…veggie oil is a lot less harmful to be around than the coal you see in these pictures below. We did get to multitask with maple syrup boiling and a little forging on the side…hey, if the flames are gonna blaze up, use’ em!




Last night Mo and I made some pizza….some lightly fried tempeh, ramp, onion, mozzarella, celery, and orange bell pepper pizza….out of this world! Mo has been known to Sriracha the hell outta most foods, the pizza was not exception. After dinner I began a seed project…which led to the eventual bashing of lower thoracic spine on metal sink…don’t ask. I almost passed out when trying to get up from the hit, and barely made it to the pad on the floor, where Mo put a frozen jar of bee pollen on the wound….nighty night I went…then awakened to finish that Maeve Leakey anthropology paper before the a.m.!


Enter saliva...


Freshly injured............spice up your life!
One more thing: breathe slowly.

3 comments:

Mariam said...

Gotta love Morgan Stanley aka JP morgan chase's face as he traverses upward on pic 10...haha his eyes are crossing man.

U boys look like you are keeping busy in Spring, love the new blogiddy...I send my love from Boston

Graduation...eeek :) check out some of the new sound lyle www.myspace.com/mariamisound

Cory said...

Ahem, Mo is not cross-eyed but very, very, very focused. If he were to miss that next hold he would a)plummet to his death, b)look like a fool on camera, and c)not be a "Cory's blog hero."

But glad that you are so scrutinous! And hey people, Mahriami's musica is killa! Check it out!

Anonymous said...

hey whats up its jacob, thought i would say whats up. ian took to to those pioneer boulders once, they are sweet. see you guys in the valley.