While at Smith, Ingrid and I played around with my Yashica and took some night shots. I had forgotten my cable release so that limited our options, but some of them came out cool anyways.

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Last weekend we went over to Smith Rock and climbed on Spiderman. I freaked out at the crux, again, when my feet blew and I was hanging by my hands above my gear. So that sucked. After Ingrid and I got to the top, I rapped down to take pictures of Matt and Jeremy pulling the roof. That was badass and made up for the cruxy screaming and swearing.

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Ding and I went to get peaches at Sauvie's Island this weekend. There were a lot still on the trees but they weren't as tasty as I remembered. They all went mushy and moldy in a few days so Ding was a little sad.

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On Saturday Matt, Ron, Angel and I went up into the gorge for a little hike up Mt. Hamilton. It was a pretty chill hike with some nice views.

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On Tuesday Ron and I went up to Beacon Rock to get in some practice. I've been wanting to do some simulclimbing to get ready for the Grand Teton in August. We got in a few sections of simulclimbing using an ascender to protect the leader, I think it worked out pretty well. The climbing was bomber and I felt pretty good on lead above the gear. We'll be going up again in a week or two to get more practice.

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Last weekend I went up to Seattle to hang out with Sara for a few days. We came across a kitchy store and inside they had Ugly Dolls. They are quite ugly, but I bought a bat for Ingrid. We decided to take Ding (the bat's name) around Seattle and document his adventures for Ingrid.

We took Ding to the aquarium, to an Italian pizza place, to beer, to a park, to breakfast and then to mojitos. Below are his adventures.

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For the 4th we went down to the beach to hang out and get in a bit of mountain biking. Sara came down on Wednesday to check out the fireworks with us. We had a kickass bbq, even if there were vegetables involved.

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Last weekend I went with Ingrid to Montana for her grandmothers funeral. We went to some of her family's favorite spots to hang out. At the waterfall Ingrid jumped off the top and later went down the waterfall.

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White Sulphur Springs, Montana.

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Over the weekend Ron and I went over to Smith to try and help out Vince's Boy Scout troop do some climbing. We set up a few top ropes over by Cinammon Slab. We did a few 5.8s and a 5.5. After they left Ron and I redid the 5.8 to the side of Cinammon Slab and then did the 2nd pitch of 5.5.

The next day we ran over to Super Slab (5.6) after a bigass breakfast and had a bad ass time. I think next time Ron will be ready to do his first real trad lead on the 3rd pitch - the money pitch. When I lead it this time I was able to run out certain sections to practice going faster and it was totally bomber.

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On Sunday Ingrid and I went down to help out Trey, Mary and Simone make some cob for a new fireplace. It was pretty fun to much around w/ the mud and straw. My bricks were the ugly strawie ones, while Miles and Ingrid made really nice ones.

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