New Frontiers & Fame

[audio: http://www.jakecast.com/wp-music/theanimal.mp3|titles=Animal|artists=Miike Snow]

Blam. New Frontiers on the JCDC (JakeCast-Dot-Com…duh).

First time leading a route outside. An awesome moment to:
A) Realize you are far more uncomfortable with heights than you thought
B) Realize skiing, biking and programming have left you with no upper body strength
C) Scream in a high pitched voice that you can’t find the next hold
D) All of the above…

Remember kids, there is no where to wash your hands if you mess up while peeing with a harness on. That thought and this picture are totally unrelated.
…just don’t use the same handholds as me for a couple days

Here’s a nice shot of Philipp, my awesome german belayer, staring at the camera and giving it a nice pose.
You know what he’s not looking at? Me. Confused 90′ above him. Haha.

Philipp resends the route, making it look easy.

My other German associate, Dajana, learning to climb in an awesome trial by fire.

I tried to cheer her on in her own native language, but unfortunately my German is a bit rusty (read: non-existent) and all I could manage to shout out was: “Wo bewahren sie ihre toilettenpapier!”
…which roughly translates to ‘where’s the toilet paper’

Philipp took this moment to tell us that he’d been to this area a week before, but that giant pile of rocks wasn’t there…Haha. I’m not fucking laughing.