I should be climbing right now

Its my spring break, and I'm sitting at a computer looking outside at the rain. The plan was to spend this week climbing down at Smith Rock, but the weather has just been terrible. It looks like Thursday things might get a bit better, so I think I'll head down then, and hopefully get at least a few days of climbing in.

I've only gotten outside climbing once in the last 3 months, and I am missing it badly. I haven't been doing much other than schoolwork and drinking, often at the same time. And its surprising that I'm still in pretty good climbing shape. I've been bouldering well indoors recently. I've probably sent more V6 boulder problems at the warehouse in the last few weeks than I have in the last few years. My finger injury is more or less gone, although I'm still taping it, just in case. I haven't been psyched for getting on a rope indoors, but I'm hoping (perhaps naively) that my route fitness will come back pretty easily as soon as I get outside. I've had fun playing in the snow though, a couple of weeks ago I went skiing for my first time ever. It was so much fun, I know this is something that I will be doing a lot more of in the future. And last week I went snowshoeing, which was less fun, more hard work, but getting to hang out in the hotsprings with friends was worth it. I'm done with the cold wet weather though, I really want to get outside on some rock.

Me enjoying the snow at White Pass

I had a multiple page ticklist for this smith trip, but I'm now having to edit it and decide what I really want to get on. I'd be psyched to get on The Quickening, a route I've often looked at, but never tried. It looks like it'd be really fun , I found what seems like good beta for it online. I haven't done anything harder than 12b at Smith, so it'd be awesome to do this route. I'm also psyched to get on some trad as well. We'll see what happens, right now any dry rock climbing would be awesome.