taking it easy for a while...

Hey everyone,

So i landed back in this beautiful city on Wednesday and have been trying to figure out what exactly has happened to my elbow. I have been to phsio already and we have almost pinpointed the issue.

The trip was amazing and in the last week i got to check out some new areas within the potrero that have very little traffic, the Vatican is a small area that requires an entry pitch to get into and the smirf bowl is probably the most mysterious crag at the potrero. The verdict is the Vatican needs some serious rebolting attention in order to fix all of routes, every one is damaged from a flood they had years ago. The vatican was a pretty eerie place and kind of felt like a tomb, every route in it was completely water polished due to the fact that when it rains heavy in the monsoon months there is a waterfall going right through this area.The smirf bowl is a pretty serious 5th class approach, to a very short set of routes the hard route is 2 manufactured pockets to a jug and the 11d in the orange rock looked like the best route there.

My elbow is officially injured it has gotten worse and worse throughout the trip, i tweaked it back in a climbers rock comp in November. I finally just stopped climbing and just enjoyed the warm Mexican sun for the last 4 days of my trip, not because it was debilitating me from climbing but knowing that constantly ignoring signals like this from your body to rest will eventually have very serious repercussions. So now its time to rest, i haven’t  rested in a month in about the last 5 years of my climbing , actually i don’t think that i rested more then about 5 days, tops! so its going to be hard staying away from what i love more then anything in the world, but i am sure that in the end i will come back stronger and even more motivated for the hard stuff this summer.

Tres-leche, hands down the best cake in the world!

My Friends Rick and Simeon, Two of the nicest and happiest climbers I have ever met

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