Chilling in the Desert

So I'm a little over a month into my stay in The Creek and I'm still loving life. Every day is different in some way, but there's also a comfortable routine here, and it's nice to live in a place of such amazing beauty and opportunity for exploration and climbing.

So far, I've only really touched on the logistics and more general aspects of living at The Creek without much mention of the actual climbing or anything else that happens here.
I have a few goals I'm trying to meet while I live here: I'm trying to climb better, become more fit, and overcome and heal several nagging injuries.

The climbing has been spectacular. You couldn't ask for better weather, and the cracks? They go on forever. I've climbed on, looked at and attempted so many varied, beautiful lines it's hard to keep track of them all.
My primary focus for climbing while I'm here is to work on crack sizes that are difficult for me, and to round out my skills.

I've also met a lot of wonderful people here, and that's one of the rewards of this lifestyle that's very hard to quantify.

After Indian Creek, I will be going to The Valley.
It had been my original plan to work in Yosemite Valley for the concessionaire but  I didn't get the job--it's nice that I'll still be able to spend time there.
I have high hopes to do a lot of climbing and continue meeting awesome people.

I feel I should mention, in the interest of full disclosure, that I've had a bit of "climbers block", aka loss of psych.  All I mean by that, is that there has been a surprisingly frequent and numerous number of days where I didn't want to climb. A lot of it, I think, comes from feeling pressured to go climb with the group, even though I may have other things I want to do.
It's all well and good, and I'm not too worried about it, but it does give me pause and cause a fair bit of introspection when I'm ostensibly on a climbing road trip and I have little desire to climb.
That being said, I do still climb and I had a great climbing day yesterday when I climbed the second pitch on Supercrack and then tried leading Ananaki (it's a ways off).

This blog is not as frequently updated as I had first imagined, and I regret that I'm not able to be more thorough in my updates, but it's nice to check in from time to time and write about whatever it is that seems most relevant at the time.