Hijacking a pirate ship and taking all the loot so I can afford to fly to the places I want to climb in lol!

Goal # 1
get online less, go climbing more

(as I been doing for quite some time)

Primary Goal: Remain absent from the pages of Accidents in North American Mountaineering.

My goal list is pretty extensive for 2012:

-Whitney, Shasta, and Muir (CA 14ers); February
-Pico de Orizaba and Iztaccihuatl (Mexican volcanoes); March
-Mt. Rainier, Glacier Peak, St. Helens, El Dorado, Entiat Cirque triplet, Daniel, Hinman, Dragontail just to name a few WA Cascade Peaks; July
-Three Sisters, Jefferson, Eagle Cap just to name a few OR Cascade Peaks; July
-Finish the CO 14ers (except Capitol, Pyramid and Little Bear) and as many Centennial 13ers as possible; May-June
-Kings, Yard, Agassiz, Powell, Gilbert, Spread Eagle, Lamotte to name a few Utah Uinta Peaks and Mt. Tuk, Peale in La Sals; August
-Granite Peak plus nearby Beartooth Peaks in MT; August
-Fremont, Jackson, Sunbeam, Febbas, Wind River, Koven just to name a few in the Wind Rivers; August
-Middle Teton and possibly Grand Teton; August
-2 weeks in the Alberta Rockies with choice summits; September
-Possibly a trip to Lake Clark NP in Alaska; August-September
-Wheeler Peak and Mt. Wheeler (Nevada and NM Highpoints); April

Goals that will happen though are:
1. Going to Colorado for a few days in May and climbing as much as possible before I must return
2. Doing a climbing trip with the kids maybe in Quebec because they want to see the caribou
3. Another trip to Katahdin because it's kind of a tradition at this point
4. If at all possible go back to Yosemite this summer

sure not a grandiose list but it's an attainable one with kids and work....why do I feel so old?

I flew over 40,000 air miles in 2011and that included ZERO business trips. All vacation travel. I'd like to beat that number in 2012.

instead of going for a winter mountaineering course in socttland,so i can bone up on ice and mixed skills(army reserves came right on my holiday)
illl do a seconed trad climbing course in wadi ram, jorden 4 days.
climb at least two weekends in wadi rum before summer and complete "beauty" 6a trad 13pitches
summer season go to chamonix and aim for aig. de la repulic aig. du diable grand capucin and grand jorasess traverse or NF depending on condition and maybe if find the courage puatery integral.

wow thats nice to get it all down in writing it almost makes it all possible.

2012:

-Move to Colorado (in three weeks)
-See old friends & meet new ones
-get a job
-hike,climb & Party with my friends as much as possible
- take off a portion of the summer to go on an extensive hiking/climbing trip with one of my good buddies.

this will do it for me.

Climb some unclimbed 'uns

Kili
Denali
Elbrus
In that order..

sjarelkwint wrote:

etai101 wrote:instead of going for a winter mountaineering course in socttland,so i can bone up on ice and mixed skills(army reserves came right on my holiday)
illl do a seconed trad climbing course in wadi ram, jorden 4 days.
climb at least two weekends in wadi rum before summer and complete "beauty" 6a trad 13pitches
summer season go to chamonix and aim for aig. de la repulic aig. du diable grand capucin and grand jorasess traverse or NF depending on condition and maybe if find the courage puatery integral.

wow thats nice to get it all down in writing it almost makes it all possible.

So no scotland for you?

Other advice Tradclimbing in North Wales!

yea UK seems further away from me as it has ever been.
have no time to spare this winter now that my vacation is bust, wadi ram is right next door and really doable on a tight schedguale plus its awosome!
other than that the closest world class climbing area in the vecinety is in calimnos greece sport oriented crags(had a bit too much of that this year).

cheers.

Toubkal, Elbrus, Demavend, Ararat, Etna... and many others in the Alps

goals for 2012!? graduate from college (May/June) Get started on my career, (hopefully find a decent job).

Might head to the Pacific North West for some Early Winter Ascents. (November/December)

Don't any of you want to do a first ascent or new route ?