It has been super hot this week. After such cool temps the last week or more of August it is a little tough to go back to nearly ninety and muggy. Next week looks like it'll be back to fall.

Marty and I visited Lost City yesterday and set top ropes on three routes; Red Wall, Texas Flake and Forbidden Zone and ran a pair of laps on each. Marty is working hard to be fit for a trip to the Cascades that is just a week away and so we dashed out for a quick work out and stayed cool in the sort of corridor in which these great routes hide.

Personally, I feel like it is time to crank it all up a bit. After a long summer of climbing mostly moderate pitches it's time to do something hard (at least by my somewhat lame standards). I got a taste of the Adirondacks last week with a client from the city. We visited the west face of Mt. Colden and climed Colden Slide, a thousand feet of cruiser slabs in a back country setting that landed us right at the summit. We also went to the Beer Walls by Chapel Pond and climbed a number of reasonably good pitches. I am amazed at how featured the rock is up there, very nice.

Hoping to visit Canon Mt. next week for a long route or two. The weather dictates.