Crystal Lake - Losing what's left of my mind.

Post by **Taco** » Sun Jul 15, 2012 1:32 pm

I have a retail job. I can barely do anything anymore, working full time and having Sunday off, the only day anyone else can go out and do stuff. Many other things have happened in recent history for me, so I'm having a real tough time doing anything, so I'm emotionally and spiritually drained. I'd really like to throw it all away and just leave, and go climb and explore and canyoneer and really live and stay the hell away from civilization and all the bullshit we've all constructed and accepted for ourselves.

Yesterday I got out a little. Went up to Crystal Lake to the crag with my new shoes. Didn't solo anything yet, maybe I will today though. Went to the bouldering area and bouldered for a while.

I desperately need to do a big objective, like good ol' Fish Fork in a day again, or one of the other ones, or a wall or something.

Pics

My special project

Action shot crap

New shoes

Out, away from the city

atomicoyote · Post by **atomicoyote** » Sun Jul 15, 2012 3:14 pm

Contact one of the guide services about work - Yosemite Mountaineering (the one out of Yosemite Valley), Southern Yosemite Mountain Guides, maybe Rainier Mountaineering or American Alpine Institute up in Washington. Might be seasonal, maybe simple trail guiding mixed with some occasional vertical rock & ice, but it'll git ya outta L.A. for a while. And you might walk by some cool stuff you can come back and do at a later date.

RichardK · Post by **RichardK** » Sun Jul 15, 2012 3:49 pm

Taco wrote: ↑ I'm emotionally and spiritually drained. I'd really like to throw it all away and just leave, and go climb and explore and canyoneer and really live and stay the hell away from civilization and all the bullshit we've all constructed and accepted for ourselves.

I hear you.

Post by **Taco** » Mon Jul 16, 2012 6:22 am

I just applied for Yosemite yesterday. 8)

Post by **Hikin_Jim** » Mon Jul 16, 2012 4:08 pm

Taco wrote: ↑I have a retail job. I can barely do anything anymore, working full time and having Sunday off, the only day anyone else can go out and do stuff. Many other things have happened in recent history for me, so I'm having a real tough time doing anything, so I'm emotionally and spiritually drained. I'd really like to throw it all away and just leave, and go climb and explore and canyoneer and really live and stay the hell away from civilization and all the bullshit we've all constructed and accepted for ourselves.

yeah. Would bills, insurance, the decline of America/the rise of China all just go away please so I can just live in the backcountry?

HJ

Post by **Taco** » Mon Jul 16, 2012 11:57 pm

Fuck it, let China and 'Murrica battle it out with their pocketbooks while we live in the mountains with clean water and simplicity.

Dragon · Post by **Dragon** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 9:39 am

I am so right there with you taco. Let's take for the hills and let the world worry about itself.

Post by **Hikin_Jim** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 2:07 pm

Taco wrote: ↑Fuck it, let China and 'Murrica battle it out with their pocketbooks while we live in the mountains with clean water and simplicity.

Tempting... tempting...

HJ