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The 24th of April in the year 2004

UPDATES:
~Roughly 10 New Pictures in the Gallery

Hey ladies and gentlemen.

I know, I know, I never update this site, but you see, that's with good reason. Most of my time is taken up with school work, climbing, sleeping, partying, and filming. Throughout all these events the media I have just builds up and up and up, until I wind up making an update like this, with about 10 Brand New Pictures for you all to enjoy.

So in the month or so that I've been doing all this incessant work, a few things have come to my attention. First off, no one around Murfreesboro,TN climbs. This really comes as no surprise when you think about it after all we are located in about the flatest part of the state. However, I have managed to line up a few climbers along the way. Scottie has been my climbing partner for the better part of this year now. The kid has a lot of heart and is progressively getting better, his goal is 5.13a by summer's end. Andrew is probably one of the better climbers I have seen in a while, kid makes V8's look like a newbie could do them. Technically, the kid is leaps and bounds ahead of me, although I can still give him a run for his money by bruiting through the problem. Jay, although not an extremely dedicated climber, is one of the few people around here that will actually but his balls out and lead something here and there, which in my opinion is worth its weight in gold. The others include, Josh, Keena, Scott Davidson, and Mark. I might have missed a person or two but that is the small crew we got going on here.

Otherwise, the climbing has been getting nuts. I have finally reached my goal of becoming a 5.11a climber. On my last trip to Summersville,WV I flashed Barfing Butterflies 5.11a. Since then, I've been working on flashing a number of things, because you know you can't count the route as defeated until you can blast the sucker. My most recent project are at the Obed and Clear Creek: Eve's Drop 11a (damn throw above the knob), Squeeze Cheese 12a, Ivy League 11a, and other random crap. I recently went on a trip and blasted through Tarantella, 5.10a, with about as much ease as a knife through butter baby, and almost had Ivy League. Besides that I just played around, most of the routes were wet so I just got on anything that looked like it was dry through out.(again, check the pics gallery!) Also, I am moving into a new realm in the climbing world; I am going traditional. I haven't been able to find someone who will let me be their gear monkey yet, but I am sure that will change once I get back from training this summer.

So all in all an eventful period of time, and I've been filming nonstop getting footage together for the new sampler, which I want to be ridiculously hardcore.

Peace out, ya'll
~Chris Meinhart