tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90447805054030720362024-03-13T14:31:14.046-07:00Climbing Puerto RicoDeseamos el desarrollo del deporte en la isla y poder lograr que Puerto Rico se reconozca como un destino de escalada a nivel mundial.
{We look forward to develop the sport in the island and to be able to make Puerto Rico a renown climbing destination worldwide.}Climbing PRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06661786462700164194noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9044780505403072036.post-78472228771527960452013-08-12T16:31:00.002-07:002013-08-12T16:31:24.333-07:00El Regreso {The Comeback}<div style="text-align: center;">
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Entre mudanzas y lesiones (por no aburrirlos con excusas) tuve que dejar de escalar por un tiempo. Por suerte tuve la mente ocupada en otras cosas y no lo sufrí tanto. Aunque el descanso fue forzado entendí que era necesario. Los ciclos son esenciales, son las partes de un todo que establecen balance. La mente lo agradece y el cuerpo también. Uno no puede llevar la mente y el cuerpo al máximo sin tomar descansos, al igual que si un motor se mantiene acelerado al final se va a quemar. Cuando regresamos de las pausas o desvíos a veces confirmamos la razón por la cual le dedicábamos tanto tiempo a eso que nos apasiona. </div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Amongst </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">injuries </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">and</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">moving from apartment (not to bore you with excuses) I had to stop climbing for a while. Luckily I had my mind occupied on other things and I didn't suffer as much. Even though the break was a forced one I understood that it was necessary. Cycles are essential, they are the parts of a whole that establish balance. The mind and body appreciate it too. One can not push the mind and body to its maximum without taking breaks, just like a motor that's kept accelerated it will eventually burn out. When we comeback from those pauses or detours we sometimes confirm the reason for which we dedicated so much time to that which we love.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">El escalador "iluminado" dando señales de un buen día de escalada.</span></div>
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Otra de las pausas en mi vida fue la de nuestro blog, al que tanto cariño le habíamos dedicado. Y es que no es fácil dedicarle tanto a algo que es totalmente nuevo para uno. Simplemente sale de la necesidad de exponer y compartir lo que te apasiona, y por ende lo haces con gusto. No es hasta que paras de hacerlo que comienzas a recibir retroalimentación positiva y puedes ver el fruto. En ese "break" realizas que el esfuerzo valió la pena. El sentimiento de satisfacción de retomar aquello que disfrutabas hacer, se podría comparar con el que uno siente al realizar una ruta que llevas proyectando. Por eso aprovecho para darle las ¡¡¡GRACIAS!!! a todos los que apoyan y disfrutan de este blog.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Another pause in my life was with our blog which we had dedicated so much effort. It's not easy to dedicate so much to something that is totally new for you. It simply comes from the necessity to expose and share that which you are passionate about, so you do it with pleasure. It's not until you stop doing it that you start to receive positive feedback and can see the fruits of your labor. It is in this break when you realize that the effort was worth it. The feeling of satisfaction of coming back to that which you enjoyed doing could be compared to what you feel after ascending a route that you've been projecting. That's why I want to take the time to give a big THANK YOU!!! to everyone that supports and enjoys this blog.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Angel "Yomo" Roche trabajando su proyecto "Head to Toe".</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Jorge Lassus hace su "comeback" repitiendo la ruta clásica "Head to Toe".</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999; font-size: x-small;">Jorge Lassus makes his comeback repeating the classic route "Head to Toe".</span></div>
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El volver a retomar algo que estuvo aguantado trae una visión fresca a lo que llegó a ser rutina. Es ahí donde la magia ocurre. Por eso decidimos visitar Cayey... para regresar al deporte que tanto nos apasiona. Un lugar de increíble potencial, donde la escalada es totalmente diferente a la escalada en piedra caliza. Con visión fresca retomamos la escalada y entre risas, rutas, vistas y amistades volvimos a descubrir el área, realizando que habían equipado rutas nuevas y que quedaban partes donde saldrían aún más. </div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">To comeback to something that was on hold brings a fresh look to what had become a routine. And that is where the magic happens. That's why we decided to visit Cayey to comeback to the sport which we love. A place with incredible potential where the climbing is totally different than climbing on limestone. With a fresh look we climbed again and amongst laughs, routes, views, and friends we rediscovered the crag realizing that there were new routes put up and that there where parts where more lines could be developed.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Yordan González tratando las movidas de lo que </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">pronto</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> será una ruta nueva en Cayey.</span></div>
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Después de un hermoso día de escalada reafirmamos el porqué le dedicamos tanto tiempo a lo que nos apasiona. Escalar rutas que ya has escalado pero con una nueva perspectiva, así como volver a hacer aquello que te apasiona y que dejaste a un lado, son cosas que ayudan a mejorar y a crecer. Esos descansos, aunque a veces forzados, despiertan la motivación y regeneran la energía haciendo que uno regrese. Puedes dejar de hacer lo que sea, lo importante es saber que siempre puedes regresar a lo que amas.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">After a beautiful day of climbing we once again confirmed why we dedicate so much time to that which we love. Climbing routes which you have already climbed but with a new perspective just as coming back to do what you love but had stopped doing helps one improve and grow. Those breaks even though sometimes forced wake up motivation and recharge your energy leading you to comeback. One can stop doing anything the important thing is knowing that you can always comeback to what you love. </span></div>
Climbing PRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06661786462700164194noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9044780505403072036.post-7161497904414941712011-12-11T14:58:00.000-08:002011-12-11T15:06:48.166-08:00El Artículo {The Article}<div style="text-align: center;">En el mes de octubre RockandIce (revista de renombre a nivel mundial) sacó un artículo sobre la escalada en la isla. Aunque el texto no abunda mucho sobre la escalada, las fotos hablan por si solas. Básicamente cubrieron la escena del <a href="http://climbingpr.blogspot.com/2011/05/bulder-bouldering.html" target="_blank">búlder</a> con un poco de escalada deportiva y <a href="http://climbingpr.blogspot.com/2011/05/psicobloc-en-arecibo-deep-water-solo-in.html" target="_blank">psicobloc</a>. A través de las imá<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">genes</span></span> hicieron evidente la ventaja de tener bloques de piedra en la playa y también mostraron una buena variedad de rocas y lu<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">gares ya desarrollados</span>. Poco a poco la idea de que una isla ten<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">ga</span> piedra, playa, cultura y buena temperatura todo el año, se esta haciendo evidente ante el mundo. Es deber de nosotros contribuir con la preservación de esta bella isla y el desarrollo del deporte en ella. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">In the month of October RockandIce (a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">reknown worldwide ma</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 14px;">gazine</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">) published an article about the climbin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 14px;">g in the island. Althou</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 14px;">gh the text does not say much about climbin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 14px;">g, the phtotos speak for themselves. Basically they covered the boulderin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 14px;">g scene with a little sport climbin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 14px;">g and deep water solo. Throu</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 14px;">ghout the ima</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 14px;">ges they made evident the advanta</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 14px;">ge of havin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 14px;">g boulders on the beach, they also showed a </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 14px;">good variety of rock and developed places. Little by little the idea of an island havin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 14px;">g rock, beach, culture, and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 14px;">good temperature all year round, is bein</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 14px;">g evident for the rest of the world. It is our duty to contribute with the preservation of this beautifull island and the development of the sport in it.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">To see the complete article click <a href="http://issuu.com/rock-and-ice/docs/197-ss?mode=embed&layout=http%3A%2F%2Fskin.issuu.com%2Fv%2Flight%2Flayout.xml" target="_blank">here!</a></span><br />
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</span></div>Climbing PRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06661786462700164194noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9044780505403072036.post-89304953614373389012011-11-25T06:13:00.000-08:002011-12-11T15:30:40.805-08:00Peñon del Hoyo<div style="text-align: center;">El potencial que tiene la isla para el desarrollo del deporte de escalada es indiscutible. Ahora sí, hay que pasar días de busqueda intensa para descubrir lo que está escondido en las montañas. Por lo menos damos <span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">gracias a que todavía existen </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">personas</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"> que les </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">gusta y les trae satisfacción buscar. Jor</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">ge Lopez</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"> es de los pocos que concocen la sensación de encontrar oro, y es que hace poco comenzó a desarrollar un area con mucho potencial en el pueblo de Ponce.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">The potential the island has for the development of climbin</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">g is undoubtable. But there is one thin</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 14px;">g, you definitely have to pass days of intense search to discover what lays hidden in the mountains. At least we </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 14px;">give thanks that there still exist people that like and take pleasure in searchin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 14px;">g. Jor</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 14px;">ge Lopez is of the few that know the feelin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 14px;">g of findin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 14px;">g </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 14px;">gold, just recently he started developin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 14px;">g an area with </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 14px;">great potential in the town of Ponce.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">"Peñon del Hoyo" in all its </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">glory, all the routes filled up that day.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 14px;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">El nombre del área es "Peñon del Hoyo", el mismo nombre con el que cuenta el sector, y tiene unas 8 rutas accesibles al público, de las cuales 6 están una al lado de la otra. Aunque no son rutas de </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">gran altura, quizas 30-35 pies, la piedra es de alta calidad y el sector queda elevado lo cual crea la sensación de estar escalando en lo alto.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">The name of the area is "Peñon del Hoyo", the same name by which the sector </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 14px;">goes by, and has 8 accesible routs open to the public of which 6 routes are side by side. The routes are not that hi</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 14px;">gh, maybe 30-35 feet, but the rock is of </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 14px;">great quality and the sector is elevated which creates a sensation of climbin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 14px;">g hi</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 14px;">gh routes.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwWFRXIPGTylAL11i1GgBaLafBF7f4bfa03x6MROOSgRwr3qZpWaIRvA0j7LzplpJKRV1zJpR6SBa7m8Wb0ZOv8qR2ZeBKaR7MHcHLEIf2B4APM86aJhcjOWG4Rcgx5WtU5PsREbubUD0/s1600/Picture+7.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwWFRXIPGTylAL11i1GgBaLafBF7f4bfa03x6MROOSgRwr3qZpWaIRvA0j7LzplpJKRV1zJpR6SBa7m8Wb0ZOv8qR2ZeBKaR7MHcHLEIf2B4APM86aJhcjOWG4Rcgx5WtU5PsREbubUD0/s640/Picture+7.png" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Uno de los contribuyentes al desarrollo del sector, Omar Malavet disfrutando una de sus creaciones.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">One of the contributors of the development of the sector, Omar Malavet enjoys one of his creations.</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"> Las rutas son sumamente divertidas con </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">grados desde 5.5 hasta 5.10b. que ponen a prueba la buena técnica. Al sector estar en un área seca, como lo es Ponce, la piedra además de ser bien dura se siente porosa y la tracción que crea con las zapatillas es sumamente buena. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">The routes are extremely fun with </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 14px;">grades </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 14px;">goin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 14px;">g from 5.5 to 5.10b which put </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 14px;">good technique to test. Since the sector is located in a dry area like Ponce, the rock besides bein</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 14px;">g very hard feels porous and the traction it creates with the shoes is extremely </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 14px;">good.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuOCCixLY0OdBBYW-El4YNC3Zykt2tEmuu5p1fifWwcMy477e3xAyBohpwIXx-6en75PLDyKX7eamZX5NQGEIlf71Q5mFg9yxIz9cAGe5TKnH2fIKJwNaAkYoz5JkFfPTr-WXSvAe3GNM/s1600/Picture+4.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuOCCixLY0OdBBYW-El4YNC3Zykt2tEmuu5p1fifWwcMy477e3xAyBohpwIXx-6en75PLDyKX7eamZX5NQGEIlf71Q5mFg9yxIz9cAGe5TKnH2fIKJwNaAkYoz5JkFfPTr-WXSvAe3GNM/s640/Picture+4.png" width="426" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Yasiri Castro en su primer encuentro con la piedra Ponceña.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">Yasiri Castro on her first encouter with Ponce's rock.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">Lue</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">go del día de escalada n</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">os dimos la tarea de explorar un poco con Jor</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">ge y entre telarañas, fan</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">go y</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"> vainas con abispas</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"> encontramos otro pedacito del tesoro que esta isla </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">guarda en secreto</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"> Se</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">gún él cuenta y de lo que nosotros nos dimos cuenta, queda mucho por desarrollar. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">Yo lo que sé es... el que busca encuentra. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">After the day of climbin</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 14px;">g we took on the task to explore a little with Jor</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 14px;">ge and between spiderwebs, mud, and vines with wasps we found another little piece of the treasure that this island holds secret. Accordin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 14px;">g to him, and accordin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 14px;">g to what we found out, there is a lot to be developed. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 14px;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 14px;">One sure thin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 14px;">g is... he who seeks finds.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 14px;"> </span></div>Climbing PRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06661786462700164194noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9044780505403072036.post-85530315464201417922011-10-23T18:57:00.000-07:002011-10-23T18:57:37.127-07:00Playa Pirata {Pirate Beach}<div style="text-align: center;">"¡Pieeeeedra a la vistaaaaaa!" No existe mejor sensación que encontrar un area nueva que se pueda desarrollar, bueno si existe... El descubrir piedras para ser escaladas envuelve otro tipo de adrenalina, uno de conquista. Encontrar algo, visualizarlo, prepararlo, y lograrlo trae una satisfacción indescriptible. Esto fue lo que pasó hace varios meses, ¡descubrimos un area nueva para bulder en la playa en el area de Manati!<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">"Rock ahoooooy!" There is no better feelin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">g</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"> than finding a new area that can be developed, well yes there is... Discoverin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">g rocks to be climbed envolves another kind of adrenaline, one of conquest. Findin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">g somethin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">g, visualizin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">g it, preparin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">g it, and achievin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">g it, brin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">gs an indescribable satisfaction. This is what happened a couple of months a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">go, we found a new area for boulderin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">g on the beach in Manati!</span><br />
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</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> La aventura comienza con un camino 4x4 que te lleva a una playa desierta donde sólo el que sabe llega, bueno los guardias buscando indocumentados también. El área es espectacular y básicamente descubrimos la piedra por obra y gracia de las necesidades corporales. A pasos de la playa, dentro de lo que pensarias es sólo maleza, habita un pedazo de piedra caliza bastante grande la cual nombramos "la isla".<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">The adventure starts with a 4x4 trail that leads you to a dessert beach where only the ones who know </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">get there, well cops searchin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">g for ille</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">gal immi</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">grants</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"> too. The area is spectacular and we found the rock by means of bodily necessities. Only steps away from the beach, inside of what one would think is only jun</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-size: 16px;">gle</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">, lives a pretty bi</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">g</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"> piece of limestone rock we named "the island".</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> Lo interesante del pedazo de piedra es que conseguimos desarrollar problemas de todos niveles, pero todos prueban tu mente ya que "la isla" entera tiene alrededor de unos 15-20 pies de altura en sus 60 pies de largo. Esto se conoce como "highball" en inglés. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">The interestin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">g thin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">g about the piece of rock is that we were able to develop problems of all kinds of leves, but all of them challen</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">ge your mind, because "the island" has around 15-20 feet of hei</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">ght in all of its 60 feet of len</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">gth. This is known as a "hi</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">ghball".</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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El escalar bloques con gran altura conlleva un nivel de concentración muy alta, buen "spotting" y buen criterio de tus propios límites. Todo movimiento se ejecuta con <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">gran </span>presición y cuidado ya que si cometes cualquier error la caída no será placentera. Por lo demás el nivel de adrenalina es uno parecido al de una batalla, luego de conquistar cualquier problema seguro te sentiras como todo un pirata que encontró su tesoro.<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">Climbin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">g boulders of </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">great hei</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">ght requires a hi</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">gh level of concentration, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">good spottin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">g, and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">good criteria of your own limits. Every movement is executed carefully and with </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">great precision knowin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">g that if you make a mistake the fall will not be pleasant. On the other hand the level of adrenaline is similar to one of a battle, after conquerin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">g any problem surely you'll feel like a pirate who found its treasure.</span><br />
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</div>Climbing PRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06661786462700164194noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9044780505403072036.post-62107103538034737812011-10-11T10:19:00.000-07:002011-10-11T18:29:06.600-07:00Etapas {Stages}<div style="text-align: center;">Hay cosas que marcan etapas en la vida como por ejemplo una mudanza, la cual ha consumido todo mi tiempo este último mes y por eso mi breve ausencia, mis disculpas. De la misma forma hay ciertas rutas que marcan etapas en la vida del escalador. "Shanghai Bombay" en el Parque Julio Enrique Monagas en Bayamón es una de estas rutas. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">There are things that mark sta</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">ges in life for example movin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">g from your house, which has consumed all my time this past month explainin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">g my abscence, my apolo</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">gies. In the same manner there are certain routes that mark sta</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">ges in the life of a climber. "Shan</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">ghai Bombay" en Julio Enrique Mona</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">gas Park in Bayamón is one of these routes.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">Esta es una ruta técnica y de resistencia con el crux al final, poniendo a prueba todo lo aprendido hasta el momento de enfrentarla. Ya sea que marque: una mejoría en tu técnica, que tengas mayor resistencia, que mejores la memoria muscular, que subas de grado, o simplemente que sobrepases algo que llevas trabajando por mucho tiempo, algo marcará de seguro.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">This is a technical and hi</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">gh resistance route with its crux at the end, puttin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">g everythin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">g you've learned to test when facin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">g it. It may mark: improvement in your technique, that you have more resistance, improvement in muscle memory, that you pass on to a new </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">grade, or simply that you accomplish somethin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">g you've been workin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">g on for a lon</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">g time, surely it will mark somethin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">g.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">El grado de esta ruta es 5.12a, la cual determina una base para el comienzo en un nivel difícil. Básicamente 5.12 es el nivel más alto de escalada en Puerto Rico con la excepción de varios 5.13's. Así que si encadenaste o como decimos nosotros "sacaste" esta ruta, bienvenido a una nueva etapa...</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">The </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">grade of this route is 5.12a, which determines a base for a start in a difficult level. Basically 5.12 is the hardest level of climbin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">g in Puerto Rico with the exception of various 5.13's. So if you redpointed this route, welcome to a new sta</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">ge...</span></div><div><br />
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</div>Climbing PRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06661786462700164194noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9044780505403072036.post-65264718403159136112011-09-08T06:17:00.000-07:002011-10-11T10:28:03.881-07:00En la Cuerda Floja {Slackline}<div style="text-align: center;">"¡Meeeeeera Walleeeendaaaaa!" Así nos gritan cada vez que practicamos el "slackline" en público. Es casi inevitable escuchar la musiquita de circo en tu mente al ver a al<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">guien caminando en una cuerda floja o "slackline" (como se le conoce en in</span>glés), pero en realidad esta última es diferente a la del circo. En el circo se utiliza un cable, en el "slackline" se utiliza un cincha(webbing) la cual es mucho más flexible. Cualquiera pensaría que esto es pura diversión y solamente un juego, pero el que lo ha probado sabe que es mucho más que eso.<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">"Heeeeeey Walleeeeendaaaaaaa!" That's what people shout everytime we practice slackline in public. It is kind of inevitable to hear that circus music in your mind, everytime you see a person walkin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">g the ti</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">ghtrope or slackline, but in reality this last one is different from the one used in the circus. A cable is used in the circus and a slackline is made of webbin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">g which is much more flexible. Anyone would think that this is purley fun and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">games, but those who have tried it know that it is much more.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">El "slackline" no es solo una forma de pasar un buen rato con tus amistades, también es una forma de ejercitar el cuerpo y la mente. Trabaja mucho las piernas y el centro del cuerpo o "core". Requiere altos niveles de concentración y buen balance, al igual que hacer enfoque en la respiración. Se desarrollan retos, trucos y rutinas como también se pueden crear juegos.<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">Slackline is not only a way to have a good time with your friends, it is also a form of exercisin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">g your body and your mind. It works the le</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">gs and the center of the body or core a lot. It requires hi</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">gh leves of concentration and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">good balance and focuces on breathin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">g. Challen</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">ges, tricks, and rutines are developed and you can also create </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">games.</span></div><div style="text-align: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0r0oukXcnLgr6Kvoohyz9qndM9wQ1plYdS3S0dWY560uJK1WnVADRMpHanIhQ_nCAosqayzzQUueO9xF8sRbj3KqTh99jizImgb88Z_ifPIhqClHgi4_x2OzG6_VmLyBqM5Hvyv2jcTQ/s1600/Picture+4.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0r0oukXcnLgr6Kvoohyz9qndM9wQ1plYdS3S0dWY560uJK1WnVADRMpHanIhQ_nCAosqayzzQUueO9xF8sRbj3KqTh99jizImgb88Z_ifPIhqClHgi4_x2OzG6_VmLyBqM5Hvyv2jcTQ/s640/Picture+4.png" width="424" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">G</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">ina Malloy totalmente concentrada en dar su próximo paso.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">G</span>ina Malloy totally concentrated on makin</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">g</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-size: x-small;"> her next step.</span><br />
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</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ_UuCDvZx0cUIHTRG40sD2ulyhh30vGx5D5SdBO_Fw0rtnthhz9sYmIuxa3eNwobBj1qfYxLa1GDHjnpq2-VDyWrT25DzjnEmlV_luCFzioqCiNrBdYE24OMS3FEL1DzMg9LDaeh05HI/s1600/Picture+1.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ_UuCDvZx0cUIHTRG40sD2ulyhh30vGx5D5SdBO_Fw0rtnthhz9sYmIuxa3eNwobBj1qfYxLa1GDHjnpq2-VDyWrT25DzjnEmlV_luCFzioqCiNrBdYE24OMS3FEL1DzMg9LDaeh05HI/s400/Picture+1.png" width="266" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7IADU9HPa5ZRCTUVgZurHQT2V7-k8bTV7D4ge2ZSFV52D0PAwwl_BF4rOt3i6xYpn8cbQdLKz_Ac-zZ9tO7yiz3rupmKLZw4INIdxNkpkHxb0PnhuQy3IAlzRB6-9OH2Xqs_YSAR1i3E/s1600/Picture+5.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7IADU9HPa5ZRCTUVgZurHQT2V7-k8bTV7D4ge2ZSFV52D0PAwwl_BF4rOt3i6xYpn8cbQdLKz_Ac-zZ9tO7yiz3rupmKLZw4INIdxNkpkHxb0PnhuQy3IAlzRB6-9OH2Xqs_YSAR1i3E/s400/Picture+5.png" width="266" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Yordan </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">González respira para recuperar balance y lo</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">g</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">rar bajar.</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Yordan </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">González breathes </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">to recuperate balance and to be able to lower down.</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi14Zq-VEOxt4Jx2nJCv2gjho8dKHWL8D8GVlSkUL3r8lyKpacxWTLVuWTCL7cxSp0OrXh6ECqSR5YoMoBLoBv2HqaGhoiCr68yB2CXGsz0nBSxHKvZndDlQS9fhoPubWSBeFWfmOJiL-o/s1600/Picture+2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi14Zq-VEOxt4Jx2nJCv2gjho8dKHWL8D8GVlSkUL3r8lyKpacxWTLVuWTCL7cxSp0OrXh6ECqSR5YoMoBLoBv2HqaGhoiCr68yB2CXGsz0nBSxHKvZndDlQS9fhoPubWSBeFWfmOJiL-o/s640/Picture+2.png" width="426" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Jorge Lassus logra sentarse en el slackline.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">Jorge Lassus makes the sitdown on the slackline.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;">Muchos escaladores complementan la escalada con este deporte o pasatiempo, como lo prefieras llamar. No es para menos, pues en realidad tienen muchas semejanzas, como por ejemplo ambos trabajan con el balance y una vez que te "trepas" todo se reduce al puro presente. Además, al igual que en la escalada cada persona tiene su propio estilo y su propia fortaleza.<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">Many climbers complement climbing with this sport or </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">game, depends on which you prefer to call it.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">And it's with </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">good reason because i</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">n reality they have many similarities like both work with balance and once you "climb" on it everythin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">g reduces to pure present. And like climbin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">g, everyone has its own style and its own stren</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">gth.</span></div><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;">Anda trátalo y te aseguro que también cantarás: Ta Ta TaRaRaRa Ta Ta Tara...<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">Go ahead, try it and I asure you will also be sin</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">ging: Ta Ta TaNaNaNa Ta Ta Tana...</span><br />
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</div>Climbing PRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06661786462700164194noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9044780505403072036.post-59807079169896849962011-09-04T09:50:00.000-07:002011-09-04T17:21:25.402-07:00Tenemos Un Problema { We've Got a Problem}<div style="text-align: center;">"¡Por fín saqué el maldito problemaaaa!" Lo que en nuestra vida diaria sería al<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">go que uno buscaría evitar, en la vida del que hace búlder es al</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">go a lo cual se aspira y se trabaja duro por "sobrepasar".</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"> </span>Es un poco irónico que el propósito para el adicto al búlder sea la búsqueda constante de "problemas" para resolver.<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">"Finally, I did the damn problem!" What would normally be avoided in our daily lives is somethin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">g to look forward to an work hard to overcome, in the life of a boulderer. It's a little ironic that the main purpose of the boulderin</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 14px;">g </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 14px;">addict is the constant search of "problems" to solve.</span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmObdnPpkGlkFDJFoH1g9pBSW2SDDGTJW_kGcSkOcf7VA_tIU1tyYq9vZBtfFK_0pEVakWBvqB2Rwp0y6-Frvay8sl2KI4hmCrZ31tlTJlCYJh6J14ZVxyY0PewskmlVpuorBTU3VOceg/s1600/Yordan+%2527Pandemonium%2527.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmObdnPpkGlkFDJFoH1g9pBSW2SDDGTJW_kGcSkOcf7VA_tIU1tyYq9vZBtfFK_0pEVakWBvqB2Rwp0y6-Frvay8sl2KI4hmCrZ31tlTJlCYJh6J14ZVxyY0PewskmlVpuorBTU3VOceg/s640/Yordan+%2527Pandemonium%2527.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Yordan </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">G</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">onzáles enfrentando el problema llamado "Pandemonium"</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">Yordan </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">G</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">onzález facin</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">g the problem called "Pandemonium"</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Foto: Bryant Huffman</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"> En el búlder, se usa la creatividad individual o colectiva para encontrar la manera más ele<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">gante, más </span></span></span>difícil o <span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">simplemente la única manera posible de subir un bloque de piedra</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">. </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">Lo que en la escalada deportiva se le conoce como "proyecto"(una ruta que se está trabajando para lo</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">grar</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"> encadenar), en el búlder se le conoce como "problema" ( trabajar la vía establecida para subir el bloque).Y he ahí el jue</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">go, resolver el "problema". Al</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">gunos toman solo varios pe</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">gues en resolver, otros pueden tomar días, semanas, meses y hasta</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"> años dependiendo lo que ten</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">gas que trabajar para lo</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">gralos. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">In boulderin</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 14px;">g the individual or collective creativity is used to find the most ele</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 14px;">gant, most dificult or simply the only way possible of climbin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 14px;">g a boulder. What is known in sport climbin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 14px;">g as a "project"( a route which is bein</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 14px;">g</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 14px;"> worked on to be able to redpoint) in boulderin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 14px;">g is known as a "problem" (a specific line which is worked </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 14px;">on to be able to climb the boulder). That's the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 14px;">game, how to solve the "problem". Some only take several tries in bein</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 14px;">g solved, others may take days, weeks, months, or even years dependin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 14px;">g on what you need to work on.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 14px;"> </span><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO4gBMYx4Tarz6HJ1f6jAPHQWmzK1qGknosS_gQGWzmWTUW3ALmbrj92a-VZHloz5wWwY13dXcvPsZZXhV4nJfKcRvH9O1Y4FIgnIaS2FvHwEVfMRneLq2LYp4VIYa-IhJV0ZW4GiZXhE/s1600/Mariely+%2527Nu%25CC%2581cleo%2527.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO4gBMYx4Tarz6HJ1f6jAPHQWmzK1qGknosS_gQGWzmWTUW3ALmbrj92a-VZHloz5wWwY13dXcvPsZZXhV4nJfKcRvH9O1Y4FIgnIaS2FvHwEVfMRneLq2LYp4VIYa-IhJV0ZW4GiZXhE/s640/Mariely+%2527Nu%25CC%2581cleo%2527.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Ely Bonivi buscando la manera de resolver el problema.</span> </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">Ely Bonivi lookin</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">g for a way to solve the problem.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Foto: Yordan </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">G</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 14px;">onzález</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dx1mGCMETDqYjyHHou1rNGTRCe7nomIHFSNQtrqNEzdNOi_jwAROK5H6Th7wrPuWutSjYKP8tNpDNHtfw0u1w' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Aquí una muestra de uno de los problemas desarrollado en el sector de "Ciclomundo".</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">Here's a taste of one of the problems developed in the "Ciclomundo" area.</span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">Cada bloque de piedra tiene</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"> su "problema" esperando a ser resuelto, quizas sea invisible para al</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">gunos pero evidente para otros. Cada "problema" se toma como un reto, lue</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">go de resolverlo simplemente pasas al próximo sin pensar en como será este nuevo reto. ¿Qué tal si aplicaramos esto al diario vivir? Cada problema en la vida sería un búlder a ser escalado; "¡Sacho el V7 del trabajo el martes estuvo fuerte, pero lo saqué!..."jajajaa NOT!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">Each boulder has its own "problem" waitin</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 14px;">g to be solved, maybe invisible to some, but evident to others. Each "problem" is taken as a challen</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 14px;">ge, after solvin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 14px;">g it you simply pass on to the next one without thinkin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 14px;">g how will this new challen</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 14px;">ge be. What if we were to apply this to our daily lives? Each problem in our life would be a boulder to be climbed; "Man that V7 in work on tuesday was tou</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; line-height: 14px;">gh, but I did it!... hahahaa NOT!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div>Climbing PRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06661786462700164194noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9044780505403072036.post-87700816013738511612011-08-17T16:08:00.000-07:002011-10-11T10:25:20.105-07:00Aprende a Volar {Learn to Fly}<div style="text-align: center;"> Lo que fácilmente puede ser un detonador de descargas para mentarse en la madre de sabe Dios quién, puede ser de mucho aprendizaje para quienes lo sepan procesar. Estamos hablando de caerse y es que en la escalada uno aprende a fuerza de caídas, no de cantazos. Si no te caes cuando escalas no estás empujando tu límite ni progresando, estas escalando por debajo de tu capacidad, cosa que tampoco está mal, si eso es lo que buscas. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">What can easily be a detonator for an outburst of rambling and screamin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">g</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"> , can be a learnin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">g experience</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"> for those who can process it correctly. We are talking about falling, and in climbing one learns from falling not from hitting the wall. If you don't fall when you climb</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"> you're not pushing your limit nor progressing, you're climbing below you're capacity, which isn't wrong</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"> either, if that is what you're looking for.</span><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Si prestas atención cada caída te enseña lo que estabas haciendo mal, sea la posición de los pies o del cuerpo, que tenías el agarre equivocado, necesitabas tensión en el cuerpo, etc.. Hay mil maneras diferentes de por qué no te sale una movida o simplemente te caes. La idea es entender lo que está pasando y trabajar en ello, no es frustrarse. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">If you pay attention each fall shows you what you were doing wrong, be it feet or body positioning, you had the wrong hold, you needed body tension, exc.. There are a thousand different ways why you are not able to do a move or why you just fall. The idea is to understand what is happening and work on it, not to frustrate yourself. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Casi siempre existe un momento inigualable antes de caerse donde la adrenalina se dispara por todo tu cuerpo, el corazón acelera el ritmo, los agarres desaparecen de tu vista, comienzas a hiperventilar, las piernas te tiemblan incontrolablemente y muchas veces todo termina en "¡Sea la madre.... !!!!!" Otras veces antes de que puedas darte cuenta ya estás volando. Al principio puede ser aterrorizante pero después de un tiempo hasta le coges el gustito, sólo tienes que perderle el miedo a volar.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">Almost always there exists a moment before falling that is unique where the adrenalin shoots through your whole body, the heart raises its rhythm, the holds disappear from site, you start to hyperventilate, your legs shake out of control and a lot of times everythin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">g</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"> ends up in "god damn... !!!!" Other times before you know it you're already flying. At first it may be terrifying but after a while you even start to like it, you just have to loose your fear of flyin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">g</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">.</span></div>Climbing PRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06661786462700164194noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9044780505403072036.post-4274667416802629962011-07-29T19:04:00.000-07:002011-07-29T19:23:26.629-07:001er Nivel {1st Level}<div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Decir que somos 30 escaladores activos en la isla sería un poco exagerado, seguro que somos menos. La mayoría de la gente ni sabe que existe la posibilidad de escalar en Puerto Rico. La escalada no solo trabaja el cuerpo, también trabaja la mente, el balance, la coordinación, la respiración, el compañerismo, y el alma, para los que lo entiendan. </div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">To say that we are 30 active climbers in the island would be a little exagerated, surely we are less. The majority of the people don't even know that the possibility to climb in Puerto Rico exists. Climbin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">g not only works your body it also works your mind, balance, coordination, breathin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">g, companinship, and your soul, for those who understand it.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCN3FU5t8CWWja6mWlol9IT-iCi8B22Iun5ESUL4hHVhbBLsQIrrcdpvJWszNta1Az00NxTs52GjNDHSY2SFBqbyQcizxmN5bj_rkUmUNcmVk_mr52TtZUdR3WPSM9Fm4pEHWJ20KQpTY/s1600/IMG_0309.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCN3FU5t8CWWja6mWlol9IT-iCi8B22Iun5ESUL4hHVhbBLsQIrrcdpvJWszNta1Az00NxTs52GjNDHSY2SFBqbyQcizxmN5bj_rkUmUNcmVk_mr52TtZUdR3WPSM9Fm4pEHWJ20KQpTY/s640/IMG_0309.jpg" width="424" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Las chicas con su </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">gracia</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> demostraron que no se trata de fuerza bruta.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 14px;">G</span>irls with their </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">grace</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999; font-size: x-small;"> demonstrated that it's not a matter of brute force.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">En Puerto Rico hace falta que la gente tenga la oportunidad de practicar un deporte así. Un deporte que además de todo lo mencionado se practica en los lugares más hermosos que te puedes imaginar, poniendote en contacto directo con la naturaleza, cosa que estamos perdiendo rápidamente. </div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">In Puerto Rico there is the need for people to have the opportunity to practice a sport like this. A sport that besides all that is said before is practiced in the most beautiful places you can ima</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">gine, puttin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">g you in direct contact with nature, somethin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">g that we are losin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">g quickly.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Papá observa lo que podría ser la proxima generación de escaladores boricuas.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Dad observes what could be the next </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">generation of boricua climbers.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Por estas razones decidimos comenzar a ofrecer una serie de talleres básicos en donde las personas pudieran tener la experiencia de escalar y decidir si es para ellos o no. Para nuestra sorpresa con todo y el mal clima, el primero se lleno. Hubo de todo, hermanos, novios, padres e hijos y todo el mundo pudo disfrutar de un buen día de escalada en comunión. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">For these reasons we decided to start offerin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">g a series of basic workshops where people could have the experience of climbin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">g and decidin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">g wether this is for them or not. To our surprise even with the bad weather, the first one was full. All kinds showed up, brothers, couples, father and son and everyone was able to enjoy a </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">good day of climbin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">g in comunion.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;">La adrenalina no faltó y todos se enfrentaron a sus miedos, inseguridades y fortalezas, pero las sonrisas sobraron. Hay varias zapatillas y arneses nuevos rondando por ahí a raíz del taller, lo que demuestra que esto es un deporte del cual muchos podrían disfrutar. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Adrenaline was present and everyone faced their fears, insecurities and stren</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">gths, but there were plenty of smiles. There are a couple of new shoes and harnesses </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">goin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">g around which demonstrates that this is a sport which a lot of people could enjoy.</span></div><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">We can see the feelin</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">g of knowin</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">g he's </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">goin</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">g to achieve what he propose to himself; </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">gettin</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">g to the top.</span></span><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">La escalada puede sonar "extrema" para muchos y puede llegar a serlo, pero en realidad se puede practicar de manera recreativa también. Todo depende el nivel al cual lo quieras llevar. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Climbin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">g can seem "extreme" to many people and it can surely be, but in the other hand it can be practiced for recreational purposes. It all depends the level you want to take it to. </span></div><div><br />
</div>Climbing PRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06661786462700164194noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9044780505403072036.post-68567826208579656882011-07-22T07:52:00.000-07:002011-09-07T20:30:06.705-07:00Escalando con Papá {Climbing with Daddy}<div style="text-align: center;">Son muchas las veces que hemos oido, "Mano es que ahora con el nene(a) no puedo escalar tanto". Y aunque sí es cierto que es un poco más complicado, no es cierto que se tenga que dejar de escalar al tener un hij@. Simplemente tendrás que prepararte mejor antes de salir y cargar un poco, bastante más de lo que estás acostumbrado. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">It's been many times we have heard, "Man I can't climb much, now that I have my kid". Although it's true that it's a little more complicated, it's not true that you have to quit climbing when you have a kid. You will simply have to prepare better before leaving and carry a little, a lot more than you're used to.</span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS-PC5wQHb9WZp0y20WPbfxOCTI_T7wKfHlXKz9YFKsLmtukFaZNjKotC9lBlv-BUv-gy52FUpRrGbgoPmENF51oeHPBh2ZvQwZ3KC36choYVizZmbDu1dTLGVW_SaQrwEWfy3TbzVojc/s1600/IMG_9425.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS-PC5wQHb9WZp0y20WPbfxOCTI_T7wKfHlXKz9YFKsLmtukFaZNjKotC9lBlv-BUv-gy52FUpRrGbgoPmENF51oeHPBh2ZvQwZ3KC36choYVizZmbDu1dTLGVW_SaQrwEWfy3TbzVojc/s640/IMG_9425.JPG" width="426" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Padre e hija disfrutando de un gran día de escalada...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">{Father and daughter enjoying a great day of climbing...}</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Quizás este no sea el tiempo para trabajar tus proyectos o establecer nuevas rutas y problemas, pero será tiempo de compartir tu pasión con tu nuevo ser querido, de ambos aprender de cada uno, y de inculcarle lo importante que es el contacto con la naturaleza. ¿Quién sabe?, podría llegar a ser un escalador(a) profesional algún día.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Maybe this is not the time to work on your projects or establish new routes and problems, but it will be time to share your passion with your new loved one, of both learning from each other, and of showing the importance of the contact with nature. Who knows?, (s)he could become a professional climber some day.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFSwlhS7wKYD52pukgOvLkp4Ao-5OYBo-sBmooYLo2dyC3viaifmIyU5TO_TC-QvMLWlQ1GMyLs6COXnUxH3om34xGgixwN-lXW4AlU7Xc-qS3La86bShXVwAZHkZgXwfVj9HVVOHtq0w/s1600/Picture+1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="458" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFSwlhS7wKYD52pukgOvLkp4Ao-5OYBo-sBmooYLo2dyC3viaifmIyU5TO_TC-QvMLWlQ1GMyLs6COXnUxH3om34xGgixwN-lXW4AlU7Xc-qS3La86bShXVwAZHkZgXwfVj9HVVOHtq0w/s640/Picture+1.png" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Papá aprovechando un </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">momento de</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> distracción para poder escalar..</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">{Dad taking advantage of a sudden distraction to be able to climb...}</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">Aquí van al menos cinco sugerencias que te ayudarán a escalar con tu hij@:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">1.</span> Consigue uno o varios compañeros para escalar en quien confíes, que le gusten los niños y se sientan comodos con ellos. Son muchas las veces que vas a dejar a tu hij@ en sus manos.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">2.</span> Cambia la escalada deportiva por ir a hacer búlder. No estarás atado a nada a 60 pies de altura, así que puedes brincar del problema rápidamente y atender a tu cria. Siempre llevar una colchoneta extra como area designada para tu hij@, es primordial.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">3.</span> Ponte fuerte por que vas a cargar muchos extras, esto incluye: agua, ropa, comida, jugetes, colchoneta, pañales, trapos para limpiar, y mucha tiza (magnesio). </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">4.</span> Trata mientras puedas de ir a escalar en grupos de tres, así se turnan, uno atiende a tu hij@ mientras otro te da seguridad o te "espotea".</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">5.</span> Adquiere mucha paciencia. Puede ser que te pegues varias veces al problema, mientras tu hij@ te aclama a gritos antes de poderle dar un pegue real, como puede ser que use tu tiza como abono para las plantas. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Here are at least five suggestions that will help you climb with your kid:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">1.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"> Find one or several climbing partners who you trust, that like kids and who you feel comfortable with. You will leave your kid in their hands many times.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">2.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"> Rather than sport climbing, go bouldering. You will not be tied to anything 60 feet in the air, so you can jump off quickly and attend your child. Always take an extra crash pad as the designated area for your kid, this is a must.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">3.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 14px;">G</span>et strong, you're going to carry a lot of extras. This includes: water, clothes, toys, crash pad, diapers, cleaning cloths, y a lot of chalk.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">4.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"> Try as much as you can to go climbing in groups of three, that way you can take turns, one takes care of the child while the other one gives you a "spot".</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">5.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"> Aquire a lot of pacience. It may happen that you will touch the problem several times, while your kid cries for you, before you actually give it a go, as it may also happen that your kid uses your chalk as plant fertilizer.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">{Exellent demostration that hummus is not only a source of food...}</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHSTG1zAPo3eyjbr51-VwFxoGDSSxaQMESkFCqwtxIWIAZi4PgSVlixMNbdHYOEuK2XUegFTxKwxqUEzwNvZgn0nH9u8yVn3BxoRvDs4ZI-QFzRGzRqiol3TF5CHf_SaHFoBNqMXLh7Vg/s1600/Picture+4.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="404" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHSTG1zAPo3eyjbr51-VwFxoGDSSxaQMESkFCqwtxIWIAZi4PgSVlixMNbdHYOEuK2XUegFTxKwxqUEzwNvZgn0nH9u8yVn3BxoRvDs4ZI-QFzRGzRqiol3TF5CHf_SaHFoBNqMXLh7Vg/s640/Picture+4.png" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">¡El Fantasma de la ... Óspera!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">{The Phantom of the ... Damit!}</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Fotos: Bryant Huffman</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">En fin, habrán veces en que no podrás ni escalar. Esas son las veces en que hay que dejar el egoísmo a un lado y hay que realizar lo importante que son estos momentos con tu hij@. Momentos que tus hijos se llevarán con ellos por el resto de sus vidas, mucho más que los recuerdos de algún ascenso de su papá.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Sometimes you just won't get to climb. Those are the times when you have to let go of your ego and realize the importance of these moments whith your child. Moments that your kid will take with them for the rest of their lives, much more than the memories of an ascent of his dad.</span></div>Climbing PRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06661786462700164194noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9044780505403072036.post-10612745702729866942011-07-15T23:09:00.000-07:002011-07-22T09:04:07.604-07:00La "Fe" Escala Montañas {"Faith" Can Climb Mountains}<div style="text-align: center;">El clima ha estado errático estos últimos días, amanece soleado, llueve, sale el sol, vuelve a llover...<br />
Y así no se puede escalar. Las ganas de moverse por una piedra ya sobrepasaban el verificar el tiempo en el radar, así que quedamos para ir a escalar, el destino... Ciales. Al día siguiente la lluvia hacía su acto de presencia una vez más, pero había fe en el grupo de que </div><div style="text-align: center;">lo ibamos a lograr.</div><div style="text-align: center;">-----------------------------------</div><div style="text-align: center;">Latley the climate has been erratic, sun in the mornin, rain, sun comes out, rains again... And you can't climb like that. The need to move on rock was greater than cheking the weather on the radar, so we planned to go climbing, the destination... Ciales. One more time the rain made its prescence, but in the group there was "faith" that we would make it.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig8tEeMECRF5hzGCLSZpQz0_oMZpsVV9hOmidz_jv5Y44_oVfyWsIBKKQ5Y2q3_Mze6l4-xaOUU-01gxH3pcDw-4uhPMuqvegn6KIPVhDFAj6DAAlkY8vFHaT_dAggBN01gkClqnoVOlA/s1600/IMG_0813.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="475" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig8tEeMECRF5hzGCLSZpQz0_oMZpsVV9hOmidz_jv5Y44_oVfyWsIBKKQ5Y2q3_Mze6l4-xaOUU-01gxH3pcDw-4uhPMuqvegn6KIPVhDFAj6DAAlkY8vFHaT_dAggBN01gkClqnoVOlA/s640/IMG_0813.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Asi se vió casi todo el camino a San <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 14px;">G</span>ermán.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">{Thats how it looked on our way to San <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 14px;">G</span>ermán.}</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Foto: Bryant Huffman</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> A última hora cambiamos de destino y nos dirigimos rumbo a San <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 14px;">G</span>ermán, sabíamos que si llovia por lo menos teníamos el área del "gym" que casi nunca se moja debido a la inclinación de la pared. Estuvo lloviendo casi todo el tiempo, pero se vió la luz al final del camino. Para nuestra sorpresa en San <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 14px;">G</span>ermán no había llovido. Casi sin poder creerlo nos dirigimos a la pared la cual estaba completamente seca.</div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">-------------------------------------</div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">At the last minute we changed destination and headed for San <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 14px;">G</span>ermán, we knew that if it rained at least we could climb in "the gym" area that almost never gets wet due to the overhang of the wall. It rained almost all the way, but there was light at the end of the tunnel. To our surprise it had not rained in San <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 14px;">G</span>ermán. Almost without believing it we headed towards the wall which was completely dry.</div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjptgz7picLZddfAT7b7YJ98abJF9JCSVXBufOuxf3mRUonXTngBJbAwrG6ZADdSpgEEURWUZj07U6kcOAVClvtLFFO5JRjt9hjX62L_O65dvh2TRE1mH0GwRPEw-QrA7n3VM7P76zGLLA/s1600/P1020280.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjptgz7picLZddfAT7b7YJ98abJF9JCSVXBufOuxf3mRUonXTngBJbAwrG6ZADdSpgEEURWUZj07U6kcOAVClvtLFFO5JRjt9hjX62L_O65dvh2TRE1mH0GwRPEw-QrA7n3VM7P76zGLLA/s640/P1020280.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">El grupo apreciando el proyecto en la impesionante pared del sector "el </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">gym".</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">{The </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">group appreciatin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">g the project on the impresive wall in the sector "the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">gym".}</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Foto: Bryant Huffman</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> Uno de los del grupo nos señalo su proyecto "Margarita" un 5.12a, y nos dijo que tenía fé en que la iba a hacer. Al ser del área metro son pocas la veces que visitamos este sector (aunque no debería ser así). Por esta razón si no logras lo que quieres hacer, sabes que puede ser mucho tiempo en que vuelvas a tratarlo.</div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">--------------------------------------</div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">One of the group pointed out his project "Margarita" a 5.12a and said that he had faith that he would do it. Being from the metropolitan area its few the times we visit this sector (though it shouldn't be that way). For this reason if you don't accomplish what you wanted to do, you know it' may be a long time before you try it again.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Bryant Huffman dandole un pe</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">gue a "Poesía Violenta" 5.11a</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">{Bryant Huffman </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">goin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">g for a ride on "Poesía Violenta" 5.11a}</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Foto: Hector Estrada</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Esto no solo hace que uno se olvide del beta, pero pone a uno en un estado de intranquilidad que no se vence hasta que logres ese proyecto. Constantemente pensar en la ruta, en las movidas, en la secuencia, soñar con la ruta, son procesos inconcientes para lograr fluir al volver a enfrentar tu proyecto.</div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">--------------------------------</div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This not only makes you forget the beta, but puts you in state of intranquility that you can't conquer until you succeed in your project. Thinking constantly on the route, on the moves, on the sequence, dreaming with the route, are unconscious processes to be able to flow once you face your project again.</div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiASkBtcMPgcuB_DPh-600Sf-MOxdU9rNrSpxUsCg_4iZPB0NSyh5Ci_CCyJ6ToOWug55_z0YNgSNtyj0anxMqK9xNjc1NCZhmYiSeaQ6bve117w1xLR__IEgNYWiTlhtJAYkv2iAacSj4/s1600/Picture+2.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="382" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiASkBtcMPgcuB_DPh-600Sf-MOxdU9rNrSpxUsCg_4iZPB0NSyh5Ci_CCyJ6ToOWug55_z0YNgSNtyj0anxMqK9xNjc1NCZhmYiSeaQ6bve117w1xLR__IEgNYWiTlhtJAYkv2iAacSj4/s640/Picture+2.png" width="640" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkMMAlnVgBeoxseAI01Sr4QHZ5SoWNlJ4eMcTfhjIWOfbZlXZVcqz_pcQC0Gn8QORl1XxEKrp1bkP4e1uPzKYFDgvDlWHvzAtm27vAyKpYN6JhagnpiaIYzVHmYtj6s-PCJlrvZx47a2c/s1600/Picture+3.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="522" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkMMAlnVgBeoxseAI01Sr4QHZ5SoWNlJ4eMcTfhjIWOfbZlXZVcqz_pcQC0Gn8QORl1XxEKrp1bkP4e1uPzKYFDgvDlWHvzAtm27vAyKpYN6JhagnpiaIYzVHmYtj6s-PCJlrvZx47a2c/s640/Picture+3.png" width="640" /></a></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2zq6hbYpwXVq7O22hL0X_1TWvsbXQRzr7RuuywR8id3NJubWxZ8ni7keylSyce8DQdyE_LgXzNDokB6J4H-5gnVwwZAMdBJm4hREfVpUlnJy6SPQE78Vo4R6OB4QZxQswIMtwydNpAjw/s1600/Picture+4.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="390" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2zq6hbYpwXVq7O22hL0X_1TWvsbXQRzr7RuuywR8id3NJubWxZ8ni7keylSyce8DQdyE_LgXzNDokB6J4H-5gnVwwZAMdBJm4hREfVpUlnJy6SPQE78Vo4R6OB4QZxQswIMtwydNpAjw/s640/Picture+4.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">1. Hector Estrada "en la zona" despues de pasar el crux. 2. Utilizando la tufa para el descanso crucial. 3. Después de encadenar su projecto, la cara lo dice todo.</span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">{1. Hector Estrada "in the zone" after passin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">g the crux. 2. Makin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">g use of the tufa for the crucial rest. 3. After redpointin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">g</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> his project, his face tells everythin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">g.}</span><br />
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</span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Una cierta tensión y ansiedad se apodera cuando uno realmente quiere algo, es en ese momento que hay que respirar, relajarse y creer. En la escalada literalmente "querer es poder" pero hay veces que simplemente hay que tener "fe".</div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">-----------------------------------------------</div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A certain tension and anxiety takes over when you really want something, it's in that moment when you have to breath, relax and believe. In climbing literally "where there is a will there is a way", but sometimes you just gotta have "faith".</div>Climbing PRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06661786462700164194noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9044780505403072036.post-55612132460640594572011-07-10T20:33:00.000-07:002011-07-22T09:06:20.893-07:00Poder Femenino {Femenin Power}<div style="text-align: center;">Son muchas las veces que hemos oido mujeres diciendo "¡pero si yo no puedo hacer ni un "push-up!" como escusa para no tratar este deporte, y esto para nada es cierto. Sí es verdad que los hombres poseen mayor fuerza bruta, pero las mujers dominan más el balance ya que están mucho más en sintonía con su plexo solar o "core" como también se conoce. Esto es primordial en la escalada.<br />
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It's been many times we've heard women saying "but I can't even do one push-up! as an excuse to not try this sport, and this is not true. Yes it's true that men posses more brute force but women have more balance since they are more in tune with their solar plex or core as it's also known. This is essential in climbing.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl-kVdYG2ednJU-sLMDXJJWHaVXTZIgI0pMtuFhZpMOPCBEv2XMjzPD3M_WqThelRw_b4ACDHUvozqZSpy_TZKgIgYxQtVgWMIVn7hqLg3kr4c0FTGbYKVUkUAeQPypsK1Y1XMVboR2Hs/s1600/IMG_9787.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl-kVdYG2ednJU-sLMDXJJWHaVXTZIgI0pMtuFhZpMOPCBEv2XMjzPD3M_WqThelRw_b4ACDHUvozqZSpy_TZKgIgYxQtVgWMIVn7hqLg3kr4c0FTGbYKVUkUAeQPypsK1Y1XMVboR2Hs/s640/IMG_9787.JPG" width="425" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Mariely Bonivi aprovechando su flexibilidad para lograr encadenar.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">{Mariely Bonivi taking advantage of her flexibility to be able to make the chains.}</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Foto: Bryant Huffman </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Muchas veces por la diferencia de estatura se ven forzadas a hacer las rutas y problemas muy diferentes que los hombres. Ahí es cuando sus destrezas y ventajas se destacan, como la posibilidad de utilizar agarres bien pequeños por el tamaño de sus dedos.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">--------------------------------------</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Many times due to the difference in height they are forced to make the routes and problems very different than men. That is when their skills and advantages shine, like the possibility to use very tiny holds because of the size of their fingers.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc0N0Vnvpv8n-mpgDVtSj8esDFxuVLoYnitqcGsFEtJhSf1XxuEXI8vogxwtVHOiRXtVvI96tagQBF5rsdHZ0sl5riVMHnj4FTeILQ_Oc3yJtTTTsTCRONHYCaNmaZvYYYr0ZCE1QGRzY/s1600/Valeria+buldereando.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc0N0Vnvpv8n-mpgDVtSj8esDFxuVLoYnitqcGsFEtJhSf1XxuEXI8vogxwtVHOiRXtVvI96tagQBF5rsdHZ0sl5riVMHnj4FTeILQ_Oc3yJtTTTsTCRONHYCaNmaZvYYYr0ZCE1QGRzY/s640/Valeria+buldereando.png" width="596" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Valeria Bosch balanceandose en uno de los bloques del sector "Nuevo Mundo".</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">{Valeria Bosch balancing in one of the boulders in the "Nuevo Mundo" sector.}</span><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> Las mujers intuitívamente utilizan técnica para escalar y no fuerza bruta. Cuando se escala eficiente uno utiliza la menos fuerza posible para ahorrar energía y poder llegar al tope de una, esa es la meta.<br />
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Women intituively use technique to climb and not bute force. When you climb eficiently you use the less force possible to conserve enrgy to make it to the top on one go, that is the goal.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOcVts_GKEnVa0QmZlAKjSI4M14HXeYlJdHkSBWhrL6EKhfGDnronB9ZQY6dhAW1e-FRg7H8R5fsK8aQNSf1lb2tTQ7dLtH-p6fS47YQ3e8IwgUnXnBSnxmPuQkcbdY4NkzyKU_BjKMBQ/s1600/Picture+14.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOcVts_GKEnVa0QmZlAKjSI4M14HXeYlJdHkSBWhrL6EKhfGDnronB9ZQY6dhAW1e-FRg7H8R5fsK8aQNSf1lb2tTQ7dLtH-p6fS47YQ3e8IwgUnXnBSnxmPuQkcbdY4NkzyKU_BjKMBQ/s400/Picture+14.png" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Isabel de León usando buena técnica enfrentando una sección difícil.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">{Isabel de León using good technique facing a dificult section.}</span><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> Las mujeres por lo general son mas flexibilidad, son mas livianas, son mas técnicas y crean el balance perfecto compartiendo este deporte. Los hombres podemos aprender mucho de como escala una mujer. En fin, en la escalada hacen falta más.<br />
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Women generally are more flexible, more lighweight, more tecnical and create the perfect balance sharing this sport. Us men can learn a lot from how a woman climbs. In other words, in climbing we need more.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoiEkmNB5b1KkLWohO6xqAoZuqp8Bx8SI6PytmF-VaWPUxaYxv5dRmf8V40iy1IaO4hQs-G5p6gUAP54BMLsdtt44rzfFJ5fjchyjjwqW5WuVbmz_BSM4BioT-5WM9V-wXQQCbcmdwRI8/s1600/tanama+gozando+el+tope.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoiEkmNB5b1KkLWohO6xqAoZuqp8Bx8SI6PytmF-VaWPUxaYxv5dRmf8V40iy1IaO4hQs-G5p6gUAP54BMLsdtt44rzfFJ5fjchyjjwqW5WuVbmz_BSM4BioT-5WM9V-wXQQCbcmdwRI8/s640/tanama+gozando+el+tope.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Tanamá del Cemi disfrutando la sensación de llegar al tope.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">{Tanamá del Cemi enjoying the feeling of making it to the top.} </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Foto: Jorge Lassus</span></div>Climbing PRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06661786462700164194noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9044780505403072036.post-2853950887416167092011-07-04T09:14:00.000-07:002011-07-04T09:24:14.449-07:00El Proceso {The Process}<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Los procesos son parte primordial de todo en la vida. Para lle<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">g</span></span>ar a al<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">g</span>o hay que pasar por al<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">g</span>o siempre. En la escalada pasamos por muchos procesos diferentes, ya sea el proceso de descubrir sectores, de limpieza, de equipar una ruta, de decifrar el beta, de ponerse más fuerte para subir el nivel, de visualizar y establecer un posible problema de bloque o una ruta, etc. El proceso puede semejar fracaso ya que no se ha lo<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">grado</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"> la meta, pero</span> en la escalada los procesos son primordiales y son los procesos los que realmente nos enseñan.. Por ejemplo, escalando mientras más te cai<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">gas más aprenderás. </span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> ------------------------------------</div><div style="text-align: center;">Processes are an essential part in everythin<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">g in life. You have to pass throu</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">gh a process to be able to achieve anythin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">g. In climbin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">g we pass throu</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">gh a lot of different processes, be it the process of discoverin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">g a new sector, cleanin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">g, boltin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">g, decipherin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">g beta, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">gettin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">g stron</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">ger to push the level, visualizin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">g and establishin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">g a boulder problem or route, etc. The process can seem like failure since you haven't achieved the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">goal, but in climbin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">g processes are essential and it's these processes that really teach us. For example, when climbin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">g the more you fall the more you will learn.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxaxKNoGXfuf_byF26OwaRViwvF2SCmSz7ISGZDs89BFIS2zccD3UqvQmRDakLN_JX3QPdhj1t-M0dDkyjZtA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Jor</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">ge Lassus pasando por el proceso de establecer un problema de bloque nuevo.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">{Jor</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">ge Lassus in the process of establishin</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">g a new boulder problem.}</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">Esto puede ser frustrante para muchos, pero es en esta etapa donde tu cuerpo va a ir entendiendo poco a poco a como amoldarse a las movidas y crear memoria muscular. Para mi esta es la parte más divertida, esa etapa donde la ima</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">ginación se enfrenta al cuerpo. Tu ima</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">ginac</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">ión te puede hacer visualizar una manera de resolver una movida, pero no es hasta que lo tratas físicamente que entiendes cuan fácil o dificil es, y si es posible o no. Un jue</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">go de</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"> ajedres corporal que decifras entre pe</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">g</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">ue y caida y que hace de lo imposible al</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">go posible.</span> </span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; line-height: normal;">---------------------------------------------------</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">This can be frustratin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">g to many, but it's in this sta</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">ge where your body is </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">goin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">g to slowly understand how to mold itself to the moves and create muscle memory. To me this is best part, that sta</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">ge where ima</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">gination confronts the body. Your ima</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">gination can make you visualize a way to solve a move, but it's not until you try it physically that you understand how easy or how hard it is or if it's possible or not. A </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">game of body</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"> chess</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"> that you solve with trial and error that makes the impossible possible.</span></span></span></span></div>Climbing PRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06661786462700164194noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9044780505403072036.post-45188438134398548652011-06-27T21:32:00.000-07:002011-07-22T09:07:43.363-07:00Yabucoa, Paraíso del granito {Yabucoa, Granite Paradise}<div style="text-align: center;">El <span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">granito se podria considerar uno de los tipos de piedra ideal para escalada de bloques. En estos tipo de bloques</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"> se han establecido al</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">gunos de los problemas más difíciles del mundo. En Puerto Rico existen este tipo de piedras y la mayoría de ellas se encuentran en el sureste de la isla, especialmente en Yabucoa.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">G</span>ranite can be considered one of the best types of rock for boulderin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">g. Some of the world's hardest problems have been established in this type of boulders. This type of rock exists in Puerto Rico and most of it is found in the southeast of the island, especially in Yabucoa.</span><br />
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</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Yabucoa es un pueblo costero y varios de estos bloques están ubicados en las playas<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">. Esto te brinda la oportunidad de tener</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"> una buena sesión de bloque y después darte un chapuzón para enfriar los motores. ¡¿Que mejor combinación?!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">--------------------------------</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">Yabucoa lies in the coast and some of these boulders are located on the beach. This </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">gives you the opportunity of havin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">g a </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">good boulder session and then take a swim on the beach to cool down. What a better combination?!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpDiqOVEosF_jZjaozgO0yrpapEMz6-qOkJ655DwgW3-LMZBWH1_rM3s_94daEu6UcgQiDKSs-3eW26MoXHLooOeuyuLt4yXtanCWzxwAMpoe_NrGWjVjH9vzBYHpYLP2HV2zG4YkwvuU/s1600/Picture+11.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpDiqOVEosF_jZjaozgO0yrpapEMz6-qOkJ655DwgW3-LMZBWH1_rM3s_94daEu6UcgQiDKSs-3eW26MoXHLooOeuyuLt4yXtanCWzxwAMpoe_NrGWjVjH9vzBYHpYLP2HV2zG4YkwvuU/s400/Picture+11.png" width="340" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Hector Estrada enfoca la vista en lo que parece un a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">garre invisible.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">{Hector Estrada focuses his si</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">ght on what seems to be an invisible hold.}</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;">La escalada en <span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">granito se caracteriza por sus a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">garres incómodos gracias a la superficie porosa de la piedra. Por un lado ayuda a pe</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">garte</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"> a la piedra, por otro lado la fricción con la piedra lastima la mano con mayor fascilidad. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">One of the characteristics of climbin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">g on </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">granite is uncomfortable holds due to its dry rou</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">gh surface. On one hand it helps you stick to the rock better but on the other hand the friction with the rock hurts the hand with more ease.</span><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">Añadele a esto el uso de a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">garres pequeños, bien bien pequeños o donde solo puedes aplicar presión y fricción, esto mas muy pocas opciones para ubicar los pies y tienes la escalada en </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">granito.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">Add to this the use of small holds, super small holds or where you can only apply pressure and friction, all this plus very little options of where to put your feet and you have what it is to climb on </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">granite.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"> </span><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKU8M87-zG9FW0hdbmS2_I76pA0c5jJl8GrpVLvLSdL92MmPEc98uNr-xEy6sL6HjLRIkGQbjyrXI9pWrak2i6qgVWOPE5J3z9YEzwGMaoDhbTpeS1QE8isjRcTpGt4uASeJ0uKXdLwpk/s1600/Picture+42.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKU8M87-zG9FW0hdbmS2_I76pA0c5jJl8GrpVLvLSdL92MmPEc98uNr-xEy6sL6HjLRIkGQbjyrXI9pWrak2i6qgVWOPE5J3z9YEzwGMaoDhbTpeS1QE8isjRcTpGt4uASeJ0uKXdLwpk/s640/Picture+42.png" width="478" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Alfonso "Pocho" Vazquez aplicando pura fricción para alcanzar el próximo a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 14px;">garre.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 14px;">Alfonso "Pocho" Vazquez applyin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 14px;">g pure friction to reach the next </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 14px;">grab.</span><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">Montones de bloques de <span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">granito residen en Yabucoa y pueblos adjacentes listos para ser limpiados y escalados. El potencial es indiscutible solo falta mucho trabajo y visión para establecer problemas de nivel mundial.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">A lot of </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">granite</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"> boulders live in Yabucoa and the towns next to it ready to be cleaned and climbed. There is no doubt of the potential, what's missin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">g is a lot of work and vision to establish world class boulder problems.</span></div>Climbing PRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06661786462700164194noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9044780505403072036.post-24674045266948048502011-06-24T10:42:00.000-07:002011-06-24T13:23:42.662-07:00Solo 5 Razones {Just 5 Reasons}<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSLX3jbdexWZA7MWRmYbHEYGrNE95XaI5xFSMujMAEk3VRNtf0xoxEV5G4ePhP_nNaktNZdwhLU_QGirmsm8KRKkta_TTSdewKDijY9vkIHCwRs9Y0xkLh0caND_PbM2rvUuhcf9cA1js/s1600/IMG_0740.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSLX3jbdexWZA7MWRmYbHEYGrNE95XaI5xFSMujMAEk3VRNtf0xoxEV5G4ePhP_nNaktNZdwhLU_QGirmsm8KRKkta_TTSdewKDijY9vkIHCwRs9Y0xkLh0caND_PbM2rvUuhcf9cA1js/s640/IMG_0740.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Esta visual es <span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">asquerosa hasta para los mismos escaladores que utilizarían estos colchones.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">{This site is dist</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">ustin</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">g even to the same climbers who would use these cushions.}</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div>Con el crecimiento del deporte en la isla crecen también las preocupaciones y problemas. Esto debido a la falta de educación en cuanto a ética, disciplina y se<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">guridad</span>. Últimamente hemos encontrado cojines y colchones <span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">guardados debajo de piedras en "Ciclomundo", un area de bloque en Bayamón, esto es inaceptable y no debería estar pasando. Es nuestro deber instruir y aconsejar a todos aquellos comenzando en el deporte</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">, y he aquí por lo menos cinco razones por la cual no se debe dejar equipo ni basura en nin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">gun lu</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">gar.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">1.</span> No todo el mundo que utiliza el parque escala, ¡esto ante ojos ajenos es basura!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">2.</span> La </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">goma de esponja o "foam" sirve como lu</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">gar de anidaje para los roedores, ¡no ayudes a la populación de ratas!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">3.</span> Si estas lo suficientemente fuerte para ir a hacer bloque, creo que estas lo suficientemente fuerte para car</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">gar una colchoneta en tu espalda.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">4.</span> ¡Nadie quiere ase</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">gurar su caida con un matre podrido!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">5.</span> Por conductas como estas nos pueden ne</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">gar el acceso al parque eventualmente. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">Si no respetas la naturaleza no te respetas a ti mismo. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">En resumidas cuentas: "¡S</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">i lo llevaste, llevatelo!"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"> </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">With the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">growth of the sport in the island, concerns and problems </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">grow too. This is due to the lack of education on ethics, discipline and safety. Lately we have found cushions and mattresses stashed below rocks in "Ciclomundo", a boulderin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">g area in Bayamón, this is unacceptable and shouldn't be happenin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">g. It is our duty to instruct and advise all those who are startin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">g in this sport, and here are at least five reasons why you shouldn't leave </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">gear or trash anywhere.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">1.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"> </span>Not everyone that uses the park climbs, in other peoples eyes this is trash!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">2.</span> Foam serves as a perfect nest for rodents, don't help the rat population!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">3.</span> If you're stron</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">g enou</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">gh to </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">go boulderin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">g I think you're stron</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">g enou</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">gh to carry a foam pad on your back!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">4.</span> Nobody wants to catch their fall on a rotten mattress!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">5.</span> It's this kinds of conducts that can lead to havin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">g our access denied from the park. If you don't respect nature you don't respect yourself. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">In other words: "If you took it with you, take it with you!" </span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggI5huzczYJUCOz2_HXr88-8fBKT_N_VNTs3emEokL4s_5liz6vY8VbPblJFp-KR9ioa2wSMXwpMiAWfRbZWq6srWSeH_MPS3r9J4lKZ3qSxHx2oLZXEvT-6_7kTEgvYsjKs0OTl6FzQM/s1600/IMG_0737.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggI5huzczYJUCOz2_HXr88-8fBKT_N_VNTs3emEokL4s_5liz6vY8VbPblJFp-KR9ioa2wSMXwpMiAWfRbZWq6srWSeH_MPS3r9J4lKZ3qSxHx2oLZXEvT-6_7kTEgvYsjKs0OTl6FzQM/s640/IMG_0737.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">¿Un lu</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">gar hermoso para escalar, o la casa de un hermitaño? Usted decide...</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"> </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">{A beautiful place to climb, or the house of nomad? You decide...</span></span></div>Climbing PRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06661786462700164194noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9044780505403072036.post-54195221540872727932011-06-06T20:20:00.000-07:002011-06-06T20:36:31.186-07:00Beta, ¿Tu Dices el Pez? {Beta, You Mean the Fish?}<div style="text-align: center;">"Mano no encuentro el maldito a<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">garre</span> ese que tu me dices!" "Es como dos pul<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">gadas más arriba de donde tienes la mano!" Si tan solo hubiera tenido esa información antes, quizás hubiera lo</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">grado el ascenso. Y es que el "<b><i>beta</i></b>" es precisamente eso, la información necesaria para subir al</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">guna ruta o problema de bloque. Puede ser información sobre los a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">garres que vas a utilizar o la forma en que hay que a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">garrarlos,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"> así</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"> como los movimientos necesarios para lo</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">grar las movidas específicas, donde van los pies, cual es la parte más dura de la ruta, donde está el descanso crucial,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"> etc.. Cualquier información sobre al</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">guna </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">ruta o problema de bloque se considera "<i><b>beta</b></i>".</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">---------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">"Man I can't find the damn </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">grab you're tellin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">g me!" "It's like two inches ri</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">ght on top of where you have you're hand!" If only I would've had this information before maybe I would have been able to make the ascent. The "<b><i>beta</i></b>" is precisely that, the necessary information to be able to </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">go up a route or boulder problem. It can be information about the holds you're </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">goin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">g to use or the way in which to </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">grab the holds, or maybe the movements necessary to make the specific moves, where the feet </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">go, which is the hardest part of the route, where is the crucial rest, etc.. Any information about a route or boulder problem is considered "<b><i>beta</i></b>".</span><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNVJEbWvUzVSEA7EpghHddG05rJYsomu5q_wU8BUxzOr2tF9-1w1F37CPJqjRZul9xV6XhzsMqUg0KxqNky4Elj_LOHxHLr0jcKlzTu7h6yMjY5mYz7-SrFVunmiFabqLh3JxnuUprL2c/s1600/IMG_7818.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNVJEbWvUzVSEA7EpghHddG05rJYsomu5q_wU8BUxzOr2tF9-1w1F37CPJqjRZul9xV6XhzsMqUg0KxqNky4Elj_LOHxHLr0jcKlzTu7h6yMjY5mYz7-SrFVunmiFabqLh3JxnuUprL2c/s640/IMG_7818.JPG" width="426" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 14px;">Señalando el a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">garre escondido.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">{Pointin</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">g</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 14px;"> out the hidden </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">grab.}</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 14px;">Foto: Oscar </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 14px;">G</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 14px;">uerreo</span><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">Hay quienes no les </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">gusta tener nada de información antes de comenzar a escalar y tener que decifrarlo todo en el camino. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">Cuando una ruta o problema se escala sin nin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">guna</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"> información se considera escalada "<i>a vista</i>".</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"> Hay quienes les </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">gusta saberlo todo y tener una idea de lo que van a enfrentar. Están los que les </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">gusta</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"> que le </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">griten información si lo ven estancado en al</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">guna sección y están los que no les </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">gusta que le </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">griten nada.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">-------------------------------- </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">There's people who don't like to have any information before startin </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">g to climb and have to fi</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">gure out everythin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">g on the way up. When a route or problem is climbed without any information it is considered "<i>on-si</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><i>ght</i>". There are the ones who like to know it all and have an idea of what they are about to face. There are the ones who like to be shouted out information if they get stuck on a section</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"> and the ones who don't like to be shouted anythin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">g.</span><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi12R5IVPV4xOy1WmqbMfJs_Xu8jQHe_lnGHP4IvaflPrJs8cSKn0QZC1VYqwdPIIuwJZWHJn851o0GgEK-CmKNcXRq-SHApNVoryBWbJcvKzPGHk2-3XACL42KcsioLwvotzGnyzr4Vm8/s1600/IMG_0235.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi12R5IVPV4xOy1WmqbMfJs_Xu8jQHe_lnGHP4IvaflPrJs8cSKn0QZC1VYqwdPIIuwJZWHJn851o0GgEK-CmKNcXRq-SHApNVoryBWbJcvKzPGHk2-3XACL42KcsioLwvotzGnyzr4Vm8/s640/IMG_0235.JPG" width="432" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Bryant Huffman trata de decifrar la movida crucial para pasar el crux lue</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">go de fracasar en el intento a vista.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">{Bryant Huffman tries to fi</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">gure out the crucial move to pass the crux after failin</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">g the on-si</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">ght att</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 14px;">empt.}</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 14px;">Foto: Diane Pulliza</span><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCQu8_dwHqgsnePCI54KB7ZRygtG0TF_VHnYOGW6B55ILkxTs3oXBXoSmBTZOHFNTdrMOkt7maoQOzx2g8LUZi__pWGXBwBK-ykHtWBb4D7hN-aXseW_8KQ4aijAm1qcb9tNheSfTRw9k/s1600/IMG_3660.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCQu8_dwHqgsnePCI54KB7ZRygtG0TF_VHnYOGW6B55ILkxTs3oXBXoSmBTZOHFNTdrMOkt7maoQOzx2g8LUZi__pWGXBwBK-ykHtWBb4D7hN-aXseW_8KQ4aijAm1qcb9tNheSfTRw9k/s640/IMG_3660.JPG" width="640" /></a></div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Discutiendo la posible secuencia para un problema de bloque en Vacia Tale</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">ga.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">{Discussin</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">g the possible secuence for a boulder problem in Vacia Tale</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">ga.}</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 14px;">Foto: Oscar </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 14px;">G</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 14px;">uerrero</span><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">Ahora, el "<i><b>beta</b></i>" puede cambiar, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">todo depende de la persona. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">Una ruta o problema de bloque jamás sera i</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">gual para una persona que mida 6'2" que para una persona que mida 5'.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"> Quizás en el a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">garre en que uno usa tres dedos otro ten</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">ga que usar dos por que no le caben. Puede ser que al</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">guien ha</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">ga</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"> un movimiento dinámico para lle</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">gar a un a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">garre, cuando otro quizás encuentre una protuberancia diminuta donde apollar el pie para lle</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">gar más cómodo al mismo a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">garre. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">Puede que una ruta ten</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">ga una sola manera de ser escalada, como puede ser que ten</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">ga varias, depende del escalador y sus destrezas </span>en esco<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">ger cual es la forma apropiada de subir para el o ella.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"> Y he aquí parte de la belleza</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"> de la escalada, nadie escala i</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">gual y todo el mundo tiene una fortaleza diferente.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"> </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">But then a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">gain, the "<b><i>beta</i></b>" can chan</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">ge, everythin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">g depends on the person. A route or boulder problem will never be the same for a person who measures 6'2" than for a person who measures 5'. Maybe in the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">grab that one uses three fin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">gers the other uses two because they won't fit. It maybe that somebody makes a dynamic move to </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">get to a </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">grab when the other may find a mini feature where he can put his foot to </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">get more comfortable to the same </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">grab. A route may have only one way to be climbed or it can have various ways, it depends on the climber and his or her skills to choose the best way to climb it. This is part of the beauty of climbin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">g, nobody climbs the same way and everybody has a different stren</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">gth.</span></div>Climbing PRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06661786462700164194noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9044780505403072036.post-71904074983617714902011-06-01T20:31:00.000-07:002011-06-05T08:14:09.083-07:00El Bosque de Piedra {The Rock Forest}<div style="text-align: center;">Lle<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">garon rumores de un tal lu</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">gar en Juana Diaz donde residen cientos de bloques de caliza. Así que decidimos averi</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">guar si esto era cierto. Emprendimos viaje hacia el sur oeste de la isla en búsqueda del terreno prometido. Al acercarnos a nuestro destino comenzamos a ver evidencia del posible potencial. La adrenalina aumentaba en cada uno que andaba en el carro. Nos encontramos con la otra mitad de la bri</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">gada allí y sentimos la misma emoción en cada uno de ellos. Se activo nuestro instinto explorador, nos car</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">gamos de equipaje y comenzamos a caminar.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Desde el principio nos enfrentamos a un terreno vir</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">gen y hostil. Enredaderas de prin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">gamosa(un tipo de hiedra venenosa) y ve</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">getación </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">cubrian toda el área,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> escondiendo la superficie inestable y rocosa y obli</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">gándonos a tener un paso cauteloso. Los bloques comenzaron a aparecer a lo lejos como hon</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">gos en un campo de </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">grama, y de pronto nos topamos con lo prometido, un lu</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">gar cubierto de bloques.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">----------------------------------------</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Rumors arrived of a place in Juana Diaz where hundreds of limestone boulders live. So we decided to find out if this was true. We headed to the southwest of the island in search of the promised land. As we were </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">gettin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">g close to our destination we started seein</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">g evidence of the possible potencial. The adrenaline increased in each one that was in the car. Our explorer instinct was activated, we put on our </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">gear and started to walk. From the start we encountered a vir</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">gin and hostil enviroment. Prin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">gamosa vines(a type of poison ivy) and ve</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">getation covered the whole area, hidin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">g the unstable and rocky terrain and made us take cautious steps. The boulders startin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">g appearin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">g in the distance like mushrooms in a </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">grass field and suddenly we encountered what was promised, a field full of boulders.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Las opciones eran tantas que tomar la desición de cual esco</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">ger se hacia casi imposible. Lue</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">go de varias desiluciones, comprendimos la</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> ilusión óptica que se crea en cuanto al tamaño de los bloques. Lo que a la distancia parece </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">gi</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">gante puede ser pequeño y lo que quizas no parece tan bueno puede ser una joya. La selección se tornó crítica ya que para lle</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">gar al bloque esco</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">gido había que romper camino.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">--------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">There were so many options that the desicion of which one to choose was almost impossible. After a couple of desilusions we understood the optical ilusion that forms in terms of the boulder hei</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">ghts. What seemed </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">gi</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">gantic from a distance can be in fact small</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> and what may not look </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">good could turn out to be a </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">gem. The selection became critical since </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">gettin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">g to the chosen boulder ment makin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">g</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> a path.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Los bloques tienen una variedad de formas fuera de lo común, semejando esculturas a la interperie. Después de un lar<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">go rato buscando, encontramos un sector con potencial, así que sin pensarlo dos veces decidimos probarlo. Un bloque particular nos llamo la atención y despues de varios "pe</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">gues" y</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> lo</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">grar un primer ascenso tuvimos un accidente.</span> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">---------------------------------------</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The boulders here have a variety of shapes out of the ordinary, resemblin<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">g sculptures out in the open.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">After a lon</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">g time searchin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">g we found a sector with potencial so without hesitatin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">g we decided to try it out. A certain boulder catched our attention and after a couple of tries and achievin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">g a first ascent we had an accident.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A uno de los compañeros le cayo el pie entre las colchonetas y se fracturó el tobillo, haciendo evidente el alto riez<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">go envuelto en este deporte y lo importante que es siempre estar alerta a los minimos detalles. Tan solo pul</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">gadas de separación entre colchonetas fue lo suficiente para fracturarle tobillo</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">. Sin ni siquiera haber calentado, estuvimos obli</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">gados</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> a re</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">g</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">resar para llevar a nuestro ami</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">go</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> al hospital, dejandonos con las </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">ganas de escalar y con la intri</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">ga de los bloques a descubrir.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">------------------------------------------------</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The foot of one of the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">guys in the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">group fell in between the crash pads and he fractured his ankle, makin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">g evident the hi</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">gh risk involved in this sport and the importance of bein</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">g alert to minimum details. Just inches of separation between crash pads was enou</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">gh to fracture his ankle. Without even bein</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">g able to warm up we were forced to head back to take our friend to the hospital, leavin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">g us wantin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">g to climb some more and the curiosity of the boulders to be discovered.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">El re</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">greso a este bosque de piedra es al</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">go</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> se</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">guro...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">-------------------</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The return to this rock forest is a sure thin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">g...</span></div>Climbing PRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06661786462700164194noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9044780505403072036.post-80326749169372779932011-05-29T10:14:00.000-07:002011-06-01T19:55:44.265-07:00El Maldito Crux {The Goddamn Crux}<div style="text-align: center;">¡Sonó la alarma interna! Todos tus sentidos explotan a máxima capacidad y tu cuerpo entero se sincroniza para dar el mayor voltaje posible. La respiración se apodera del ritmo de tu ascenso, la altura desaparece y tu mundo se torna en el pequeño pedazo de piedra que tienes al frente... solo existe el puro presente. Lo que antes se sentía como un paseo, instantáneamente se convierte en un <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">gran reto</span> y el simple hecho de lle<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">gar de aquí a allí para poder continuar tu camino. Bienvenido al crux, la sección más difícil de una ruta o problema de bloque.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The internal alarm has sounded! All your senses explode to maximum capacity and your entire body sincronizes to </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">give the hi</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">ghest volta</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">ge possible. The breathin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">g takes over the rhythm of your ascent, the hei</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">ght disappears and your world becomes the small piece of rock you have in front of you... there is only the pure present. What felt like a breeze instantly becomes a bi</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">g challen</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">ge and the simple fact that you have to </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">go from here to there to be able to continue your path. Welcome to the crux, the hardest section of a route or a boulder problem.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">{Ely Bonivi </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">givin</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">g everythin</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">g she's </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">got in the crux of a route in Cayey.}</span><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge1xz36WZz6NbzEyRadBe9jTa4cPmCk2_mjIDEHQdzA3N-BAkAg-VvzQAeMXbYknvmyjrh-Yg1ljGy7iRTn2NvSXhIL4XzXeSMFQSsLzqV1aJc-ob1wUHP241E-wxK86KRW4dK889s3JI/s1600/Picture+39.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge1xz36WZz6NbzEyRadBe9jTa4cPmCk2_mjIDEHQdzA3N-BAkAg-VvzQAeMXbYknvmyjrh-Yg1ljGy7iRTn2NvSXhIL4XzXeSMFQSsLzqV1aJc-ob1wUHP241E-wxK86KRW4dK889s3JI/s640/Picture+39.png" width="424" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Alfonso "Pocho" Vazquez cara a cara con el crux de un bloque en Yabucoa.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">{Alfonso "Pocho" Vazquez face to face with the crux of a boulder in Yabucoa.}</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">(Foto: JG Photo</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">graphy)</span></div>Climbing PRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06661786462700164194noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9044780505403072036.post-88379933121973811652011-05-21T10:34:00.000-07:002011-06-01T20:20:38.080-07:00Desarrollo {Development}<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">"Mano, ¿tú sabes dónde yo he visto un montón de piedras? en Quebradilla..., en Florida..., en San Sebastián..., en Utuado.....". No cabe duda el potencial que tiene Puerto Rico para la escalada. La isla consta con una variedad de diferentes tipos de piedra distribuídas en distintos municipios. Podemos encontrar con<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">glomerados, piedra volcánica, </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">granito, piedra de arena, y variedades de caliza predominando.</span> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">Ahora sí, estas areas no están listas para ser escaladas. Cada una requiere distintos esfuerzos para lo<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">grar</span> las condiciones óptimas. Quizás tendrás que hacer un trecho solo para lle<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">gar al área, ya sea para hacer búlder o escalada deportiva(<i>Puerto Rico no tiene fisuras para poder hacer escalada tradicional, o quizas no la hemos encontrado todavía</i>). </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">Probablemente tendrás</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"> que limpiar el área alrededor de la piedra o pared para </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">tener</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"> caídas limpias o poder hacer belay. Podrías tener que hacer un rappel para poder limpiar el tope de un bloque o para poder limpiar una pared que va a ser equipada. También</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"> es sumamente importante </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">verificar y sacar o evitar las piedras sueltas, etc.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">---------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">"Man, you know where I've seen a lot of rocks? in Quebradilla..., in Florida..., in San Sebastián, in Utuado....". There is no doubt of the potencial Puerto Rico has for climbin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">g. The island has a variety of different types of rock distributed in different municipalities. We can find con</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">glomerates, volcanic rock, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">granite, sandstone, and varieties of limestone predominatin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">g.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"> </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">Never the less, these areas are not ready to be climbed. Each one requires different efforts to obtain optimum conditions. Maybe you will have to make a trail just to </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">get to the area, be it for boulderin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">g</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"> or sport climbin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">g</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">(<i>Puerto Rico doesn't have cracks to be able to climb traditionally or maybe we haven't found it yet</i>). Probably you will have to clean around a boulder or wall to obtain clear landin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">gs for falls or to be able to belay. Rappellin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">g</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"> may be necessary to be able to clean the top of a boulder or to be able to clean a wall to put up protection. It is also very important to verify and pull or avoid all the loose rock, etc.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu-AwyqvolHcgWOndkgH60xyBbyQLN0fACEHpV52ni1S4j-GCutomYwPIT1EIhBFMQwf6NqkSY4QExIIVz_Mg-4_PNTJ_hZl6qmEj9BY1XXvZoYiyxIBVZRorYz2GlmsFoeLkXA6AA-Ek/s1600/IMG_0633.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu-AwyqvolHcgWOndkgH60xyBbyQLN0fACEHpV52ni1S4j-GCutomYwPIT1EIhBFMQwf6NqkSY4QExIIVz_Mg-4_PNTJ_hZl6qmEj9BY1XXvZoYiyxIBVZRorYz2GlmsFoeLkXA6AA-Ek/s640/IMG_0633.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Jean Lassus tomándose un descanso para limpiar sus espejuelos empapados en tierra. <br />
{Jean Lassus takes a break to clean his eye</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">glasses covered in dirt.}</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">Nunca vas a encontrar un lu</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">gar en perfectas condiciones, se necesita tener visión y trabajar duro para lo</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">grar el propósito, como decimos nosotros "hay que meter caña!" y obviamente mientras más manos mejor.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">-------------------------------</span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">You're never </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">goin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">g to find a spot in perfect conditions, you must have vision and work hard to achieve you're purpose, like we say "hay que meter caña!" and obviously the more hands the better.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkgQAg_po_dopzaJUehxIvntpPXRMzyXIq8eHZZOqzlf9wKBNU0kpM998dET1l-5g8GxTt8syyUExHQmSw_QfB5erTxFlf3FhBWTo9Rk_xT0ApXNW_MIi_1vixl0Kx3o3vBiYzBuPc5iM/s1600/IMG_0638.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkgQAg_po_dopzaJUehxIvntpPXRMzyXIq8eHZZOqzlf9wKBNU0kpM998dET1l-5g8GxTt8syyUExHQmSw_QfB5erTxFlf3FhBWTo9Rk_xT0ApXNW_MIi_1vixl0Kx3o3vBiYzBuPc5iM/s640/IMG_0638.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Bryant Huffman levantando la alfombra de 4 pul</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">gadas</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> de tierra en el tope de un bloque con la ayuda del machete. {Bryant Huffman liftin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">g the 4 inch dirt ru</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">g from top of a boulder with the help of a machete.} </span></span></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJMaUbmMMALOTjfzHBh1dJV5ORwlJ0whcKo1A1w8HeULSyklqQ4nuh4Lg0aI7_2dyRE-7wdqnZczkMBu-1GhywFLhqva5KJskMAz2crtnLigXmllaGFTySxV6fqRLarqyH409EEtVRroA/s1600/P1010648.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJMaUbmMMALOTjfzHBh1dJV5ORwlJ0whcKo1A1w8HeULSyklqQ4nuh4Lg0aI7_2dyRE-7wdqnZczkMBu-1GhywFLhqva5KJskMAz2crtnLigXmllaGFTySxV6fqRLarqyH409EEtVRroA/s640/P1010648.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Jor</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">ge</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 19px;"> Lassus limpiando el tope de un bloque asegu<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 19px;">rado con cuerda y arnés. <br />
{Jor</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 19px;">ge Lassus cleanin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 19px;">g the top of a boulder secured with rope and harness.} </span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 19px;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 19px;"></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 19px;">(Foto: Bryant Huffman)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 19px;"><br />
</span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf5yHyVfA39b078iRtI_3x2Z9cpqyW70Qy5-17bp3TCLB9OsfCCULi7NzqFw4BWDkNBBTHgxFB0dgGEfFEEZTc-RUjHBjWrYhr1ohZJFjWA9BVXX4x2PbblhFqhZfzBMCiYDvd4Kv0mdI/s1600/P1010636.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf5yHyVfA39b078iRtI_3x2Z9cpqyW70Qy5-17bp3TCLB9OsfCCULi7NzqFw4BWDkNBBTHgxFB0dgGEfFEEZTc-RUjHBjWrYhr1ohZJFjWA9BVXX4x2PbblhFqhZfzBMCiYDvd4Kv0mdI/s640/P1010636.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 19px;">Evidencia de las vainas que cubrian completamente este bloque.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 19px;">{Evidence of the vines that covered this boulder completely.}</span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 19px;"></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">(Foto: Bryant Huffman) </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">En fin, son un sinnúmero de elementos con los que uno se enfrenta al desarrollar un área. Días de trabajo duro car</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">gando equipo, sudando inténsamente, siendo picado por inséctos y plantas, llenándote de tierra por todos lados y sumer</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">gido en el medio de la nada.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"> Todo esto se sobrepasa con el simple propósito de descubrir si lo que uno tiene en su mente, en realidad es posible.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">So there are unnumbered elements</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"> you will encounter when developin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">g an area. Days of hard labour carryin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">g </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">gear, sweatin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">g intensively, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">gettin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">g bitten by insects and plants, coverin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">g</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"> yourself in dirt, and summer</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">ged en the middle of nowhere.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"> All this is overcome with the simple purpose of discoverin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">g if what you have on you're mind is really possible.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"> </span></div>Climbing PRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06661786462700164194noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9044780505403072036.post-64105059637549425422011-05-16T22:39:00.000-07:002011-05-29T10:19:21.171-07:00Búlder Playero {Beach Bouldering}<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"> "Una alcapurria de jueyes y un coco frío por favor. Ahhh... nada como Piñones!" Después de una pequeña parada para recar<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">gar baterias, continúa unos 10 minutos en la carr. 187 hasta lle</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">gar a la bahía de</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;"> Vacia Tale</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">ga o "Punta Vacia Tale</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">ga"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;"> en Loíza, donde encontrarás un buen sector para hacer búlder en la playa.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">------------------------------</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">"A crab fritter</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;"> and a cold coconut please. Ahhh... nothin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">g like Piñones!" After a small pit stop to rechar</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">ge batteries, continue around 10 minutes in road 187 until you arrive at the Vacia Tale</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">ga bay or "Punta Vacia Tale</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">ga"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;"> in Loíza where you will find a </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">good </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">area for beach boulderin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">g.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">gáchate, cuida tu cabeza y vela las espinas mientras atraviesas el pequeño trecho que conecta el estacionamiento de arena con el area de escalada, este camino corto te llevará a tu pequeña bahia privada</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">. </span>El sector consiste de una <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">lar</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">ga</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;"> pared de piedra volcánica que cobija la pequeña bahia. El lu</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">g</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">ar tiene mucha ma</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">gia al i</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">gual que caracter</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;"> La piedra aquí muerde, así que prepara la mente para bre</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">gar con eso, sino usa "tape".</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;"> </span>Todo aquí depende de la marea. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;"> La pared tiene sectores donde la altura puede lle</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">gar a los 20 pies(6 metros).</span></span> La altura de los problemas siempre cambia ya que el a<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">gua altera los niveles de arena </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">constantemente</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">. La arena será un elemento del cual no podrás escapar, asi que te recomiendo llevar las zapatillas que menos te </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">gusten si es que tienes más de una. Tampoco te desesperes si se te mojan con una ola sorpresa, pues es muy probable que te pase mientras velas a tu compañero escalar.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">--------------------------------------</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">Crouch, watch you're head and watch out for the thorns while you pass throu</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">gh the small trail that conects the sand parkin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">g to the climbin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">g area</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">. This short trail will take you to you're small private bay. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">The sector consists of a lon</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">g wall of volcanic rock that shields the bay. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">The place has lots of ma</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">gic as well as character. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">The rock here bites, so prepare you're mind to deal with that or use tape.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">Everythin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">g here depends on the tide. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">The wall has parts where the hei</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">ght can reach up to 20 feet(6 meters).</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;"> The hei</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">ght of the problems always chan</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">ge as result of the water constantly chan</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">gin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">g the levels of the sand. Sand will be an element you will not escape from, so I recomend you brin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">g you're least favorite shoes, if you have more than one. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">Don't become desperate if they </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">get wet with a sudden wave, they probably will while you're spottin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">g you're partner.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;"> </span></span>Ya que conoces los requisitos, disfruta de una buena sesión de búlder en la playa. Date un chapuzón entre "pe</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">gues" o</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"> cuando termines </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;"> para refrescarte, y no olvides llevarte todo lo que tra</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">giste</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">. Si ves basura</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;"> tirada por ahí, llévatela también........porfa.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">---------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;"> Now that you know the requirements, enjoy a </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">good session of beach boulderin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">g. Take a swim in between tries or </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">when you finish</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;"> to refresh yourself, and don't for</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">get to take everythin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">g you brou</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">ght with you. If you see</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;"> trash layin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">g around, take it too...........please.</span></div>Climbing PRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06661786462700164194noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9044780505403072036.post-20885328073424770322011-05-15T22:44:00.000-07:002011-05-18T06:17:28.067-07:00Exposición Internacional {International Exposition}<div style="text-align: center;">Para mayo del año pasado salió un artículo sobre la escalada en la isla en una revista relativamente nueva llamada Dead Point Ma<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">gazine. Esta revista se distribuye </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">gratuitamente y está diri</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">gida a la nueva </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">generación de escaladores que se inclina más por la escalada deportiva y el búlder.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">-------------------------------------</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">In may of last year an article about climbin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">g in the island came out in a relatively new ma</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">gazine called Dead Point Ma</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">gazine. This ma</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">gazine is free and is desi</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">gned for the new climbin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">g </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">generation who are more into sport climbin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">g and boulderin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">g.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">A diferencia de otros artículos sobre la escalada en Puerto Rico, este mostró evidencia de búlder y psicobloc ademas de escalada deportiva en la isla. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">Gracias a este artículo hemos recibido la visita de escaldores de varias partes del mundo como Canada, Alemania, Turquía y diferentes partes de Estados Unidos para mencionar al</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">gunos. Tambien hemos recibido la visita de escaladores profesionales (Chris Sierzant y Lauren Lee) asi como foto</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">grafos profesionales (Tomás Donoso y Keith Ladinsky) documentando</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">. Son artículos y visitas como estas los que nos ayudan a crear de Puerto Rico un destino para la escalada.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span"></span></div><div style="text-align: center;">--------------------------------------------------</div><div style="text-align: center;">Unlike other articles written about climbin<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">g in Puerto Rico, this one showed evidence of boulderin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">g and deep water solo besides sport climbin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">g</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;"> in the island. Thanks to this article we have had the visit of several climbers from various parts of the world like Canada, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">G</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">ermany, Turkey and different parts of the United States just to mention a few. We have also had the visit of professional climbers (Chris Sierzant and Lauren Lee) as well as professional foto</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">graphers (Tomás Donoso and Keith Ladinsky) documentin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">g</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">. It's articles and visits like this that help us become Puerto Rico a climbin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;">g destination.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span"></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;"></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 19px;"></span></div>Climbing PRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06661786462700164194noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9044780505403072036.post-46141178041945851292011-05-14T23:06:00.000-07:002011-05-29T10:31:57.642-07:00Búlder {Bouldering}<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Búlder</b> (adaptación del inglés <i>boulder</i>), <b>escalada en bloque</b> o <b>bouldering</b>, es una modalidad de <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escalada" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Escalada">escalada</a> que consiste en escalar bloques de roca o pequeñas paredes, que pueden ser de hasta 8 metros, sin la necesidad de los materiales de protección convencionales de la <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escalada" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Escalada">escalada</a>(cuerda, arnés, elementos de fijación, etc.).</div></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;"><div style="text-align: center;">-----------------------------------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;"><div style="text-align: center;">Bouldering is a style of climbing that consists on climbing on natural large boulders or small rock walls that can be up to 8 meters high without the necessity of the conventional protective gear in rockclimbing(rope, harness, protection equipment, etc.)<br />
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</span></div></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;"><div style="text-align: center;"> La roca presenta "problemas" a resolver, tanto en ascenso como en travesía (horizontal). En este tipo de escalada se destaca la dificultad extrema durante trayectos muy cortos. </div></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;"><div style="text-align: center;">----------------------------------------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;"><div style="text-align: center;">The rock presents "problems" to be solved, in ascent as in traverse (horizontal). In this kind of climbing you see extreme difficulty in short distances.</div></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">(Foto: Bryant Huffman)</span></div></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;"><div style="text-align: center;">Generalmente se emplea una colchoneta portátil denominada "crash pad" y la pericia atenta de los compañeros, "porteros", quienes deben cuidar al escalador para que la posible caída no tenga consecuencias. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">(http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulder)</span><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">(Foto: Oscar </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Guerrero)</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">No todos los bloques se encuentran en perfectas condiciones y listos para ser trepados, muchos hay que trabajarlos para logra el objetivo. Todo esto luego de encontrarlos claro está. Como este último que estaba totalmente cubierto de maleza y requirió dos dias de limpieza.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Not every boulder is in perfect condition and ready to be climbed, many need to be worked in order to achieve the objective. All this after finding them obviously. Like this last one that was entirely coverd by thorned vines and took two days of cleaning.</div>Climbing PRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06661786462700164194noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9044780505403072036.post-34660797892452125922011-05-14T21:01:00.000-07:002011-05-29T10:29:10.061-07:00Psicobloc en Arecibo {Deep Water Solo in Arecibo}<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">"Me asomo, pienso: en serio? 50-55 pies de altura, 25% de desplome!" Desde ya la psiquis entró en juego. Que sensacion tan extraña tener que analizar una ruta de arriba hacia abajo, y es que no hay de otra, pues la única manera de comenzar la ruta es tirándote.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">-----------------------------------------------------------</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">"I take a peek, I think to my self: really? 50-55 feet high, 25% of overhang!" Imediately my mind starts to play games. What a strange feeling having to analize a route from top to bottom, guess there's no other way because to start the route you've got jump off.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Cada paso que das prueba aún mas tu mente, pues sabes que mientras mas alto llegues, mas alto caeras. A mayor altura, mayor el compromiso. Siempre hay que sobrepasar el "punto de no volver" o la "zona comoda", ese punto límite desde donde te sientes seguro callendo al agua. Despues de cierta altura el agua puede sentirse como cemento.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">---------------------------------------------------------</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Each step you take challenges your mind even more, because you know the higher you get, the higher you'll fall. The greater the height the greater the compromise. You will always have to overcome the "point of no return" or the "safe zone", that point where falling from feels safe. After certain height water can feel like cement.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Nada sobrepasa la sensacion de escalar intuitivamente y llegar al tope sin cuerda, sin tiza, sin poner una chapa, sin tener que anclarse y tener que ser bajado, sin tener a alguien abajo tuyo dandote apoyo o beta o gritandote estupidezes. Se crea una comunión directa con la piedra donde te mueves libremente y llegas a relajar tu mente sin tener que meter las manos en tu saquito de tranquilidad. Cuando hay alto nivel de concentración la altura deja de existir, todo es movimiento en el momento y todo esto pasa con el sonido del mar de fondo...... y debajo de ti.</div><div style="text-align: center;">-----------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="text-align: center;">Nothing overcomes the feeling of climbing intuitively and getting to the top without rope, without chalk, without clipping draws, without clipping the chains and having to be lowered, without having someone below you giving you support or beta or shouting stupid shit. A direct communion with the rock is created where you move freely and get to relax you're mind without having to dip your hands in your "tranquility" bag. When the concentration level is high the height ceases to exist, everithing is movement in the moment and everything is happening with the sound of the ocean in the backround......and beneath you.</div>Climbing PRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06661786462700164194noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9044780505403072036.post-85526463583559329662011-05-14T17:32:00.000-07:002011-05-14T17:32:04.470-07:00Cambio de Nudo {Knot Change}<div style="text-align: center;"> Los nudos te pueden salvar la vida o volverte loco tratando de hacer o deshacer uno. Por años se ha utilizado el nudo de fi<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">gura ocho como nudo principal para atar la cuerda a un arnes al momento de escalar. Aunque es cierto que este nudo es de alta se</span>guridad, a la hora de deshacerlo puede parecer imposible si ha recibido fuertes cargas debido a caidas. </div><div style="text-align: center;">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="text-align: center;">Knots can save your life or drive you insane just trying to get one done or undone. For years the figure eight knot has been used in climbing as the primary knot to secure a rope to a harness. Although it is true that this is a secure knot, it may seem impossible to undo after it has recieved heavy loads do to falls.</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Hace poco descubrí el "Bowline", un nudo que puede parecer complicado de primera instacia, pero en realidad no lo es. El truco esta en vestir bien el nudo (alinear y oritentar todas las partes del nudo para que quede correcto) a la hora de apretarlo y añadirle un nudo de seguridad. Una vez internalizado se hace relativamente más fácil que el nudo de figura ocho. Lo mejor del nudo es que no importa cuanta carga haya recibido es increiblemente fácil deshacerlo.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">--------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Recently I discovered the Bowline, a knot that may seem complicated at first, but in reality it isn't. The trick is dressing it right (aligning and orienting all the parts of a knot in order for it to be correct) when tying it and adding a stopper knot. Once internalized it becomes rather easier than the figure eight knot. The best thing about it, it doesn't matter how much strain you apply to it, it is incredibly easy to undo. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">Para que seguir batallando con un maldito nudo, cuando no puedes ni cerrar la mano luego de bajar de una ruta retante. Por eso, de ahora en adelante no me vuelvo mas un ocho, me quedo con el "Bowline".</div><div style="text-align: center;">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="text-align: center;">Why keep battling with a damn knot, when you can't even close your hand after lowering from a challenging route. That's why from now on no more hassles, I'm sticking with the Bowline.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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