The VooDoo Climbing Blog

12/10/07

fun with friends, bouldering, brownies & snow...

...Pretty much sums up my birthday. Our wonderful friends Rich & Rox brought over loads of deliciously evil snacks and we went out to our climbing wall, put up lots of holds & climbed until the brownies & homebrew started calling our names.... what a fun night, thanks guys! So happy Jeff & Sam were able to join in the fun!

12/4/07

so in love with voodoo

Planned on going to the climbing gym or yoga with my girlfriends tonight. It’s been difficult to squeeze in some “Gina Time“ now that the holiday busy season has kicked in at VooDoo. Frank kept busy sewing today. He roped me into selecting fabrics for the next run of everything - my favorite part of the job. In between his huge day of sewing & his tig welding class he managed to put up a couple more panels on our climbing wall… I love that man! My Birthday is just around the corner and he’s trying to finish the wall before then (this wall is supposed to be my gift)…. See why I love him???? So I bailed on the climbing gym & the yoga class. Instead - while Frank was learning more about welding titanium - I spent my evening digging out our long lost stash of climbing holds, wrenches & bolts. Blasting every Pixies album in our music library... I slapped loads of holds onto our climbing wall! Oh what FUN! Uncovered so many classic shapes that are missing in our current production line. Inspiring to say the least… I'm really motivated to get some of the classics back into production… and even more psyched to get our NEW stuff molded! I love my new wall - Yes, sooooo in love with VooDoo… after all these years ;-)

some pics before I went to work - more to come

11/30/07

the dirtbag diaries

Had a fun visit this week with our friend Fitz. He produces the Dirtbag Diaries; an adventure podcast dedicated to untold stories of near misses, life changing experiences and humorous moments in wild places. Check it out http://www.dirtbagdiaries.com/

11/21/07

our old / new climbing wall

Those of you that have been out to the VooDoo compound might remember the pile of climbing wall panels under tarps being used as a napping spot for our 2 cats - well they're finally being resurrected & redesigned. So we'll have about a 25x12' climbing wall just in time for winter.

wall construction

Frank

rough draft model

right panel

side view

11/17/07

white rim trail - canyonlands national park

6 friends, 3 days of riding, 2 nights camping & 100 miles covered in one of the coolest places on earth! Such a fun trip - we're already planning a longer white rim adventure for the Spring or Fall of '08 - we're hoping to squeeze in at least one tower next time.

Jeff - Shelly - Gina (me) - Frank

Shelly & Gina playing on the Musselman Arch

Gina

Art - Frank - Jeff

Frank - Gina - Shelly - Mary - Art - Jeff

10/31/07

moab rides

I forgot to update the blog after the Moab road bike ride. We rode 70 miles in the cold with lots of rain along the river road past the big bend boulders, castleton tower, fisher towers - out to Dewey Bridge and back. It was a great way to soak up the scenery. The sun made an appearance in the last 20 miles but then the wind picked up! It was a fun weekend hanging with Marc & Suzanne - they are hilarious and my face was sore from laughing! The big bend boulders were perfect on Sunday.

This weekend we’re heading off to the Canyonlands National Park in Utah http://www.nps.gov/cany/ to ride the white rim trail. 3 days of mountain biking and 2 nights of camping with a great group of friends surrounded by amazing scenery! Happy Halloween!