The last few weeks have been CRAZY!  And everything is about to get even CRAZIER!  I have had very little time to do much other than climb and work, but it’s been great.  Two weekends ago I traveled down to the annual Yank-N-Yard Competition in Albuquerque, New Mexico and managed to place 2nd among the stacked field of competitors.  I wrote a little write-up on the Five Ten blog here: http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/12199-2011-yank-n-yard-in-albuquerque-nm-carlo-traversi.

Pressing it out in Qualifiers! (Photo: Greg Mionske)

And here’s a nice video from the event:

After that it was back to Colorado for some outdoor bouldering.  Both Sides Of The Spectrum!  It was a perfect fall day when Jonny Hork and I made the hike back out to the boulder in Moraine Park.  Cold breeze and dry air.  3rd Try and it was done!  And Jonny followed with an ascent on his next go.  I spent some time shooting some nice video and it should be out soon along with a number of climbs and clips I’ve collected over the summer.  I’m OVERDUE for some video release.

This past week and weekend I was consumed with The Spot Gym’s annual PSYCHEDELIA event which went off with it’s usual spice.  After far too many days in the gym preparing for the comp, it was back out to the alpine granite on Sunday.  With absolutely zero expectations, I managed one of my best days of climbing in a long while.  A flash ascent of Mind Matters (V12) and a flash of Dark Horse (V10) at Guanella Pass.  It felt really nice to try hard on new boulders.  It’s something I haven’t had the chance to do in quite a while and I look forward to more.  Guanella Pass has also presented itself, in my mind, as a potential “zone of the future” with more good, unclimbed rock than I’ve seen in a long while.  Why hasn’t anyone told me how good that place is?  Hopefully back again for more before the snow hits…