If you don’t live under a rock then you probably know that the U.S. Bouldering Championships were this past weekend at the Spot gym in Boulder. If you paid any attention at all you know Daniel Woods and Alex Johnson crushed hard enough to clench the titles. Their accomplishments are worthy enough to drink to tonight  except for the fact that neither one of them are old enough to buy their own alcohol.

I am feeling particularly resentful of this sometimes unrelenting city today. It’s loud. Between the subways, cabs, straphangers, tourists and vagrants I find myself frowning a lot. Especially while it pisses rain outside. Tomorrow should be beautiful, however. 

It is not tomorrow yet, though, so i searched a little and remembered why I like where I live at le
ast a little bit. 

I drove to New Jersey this last weekend for the 2008 Mammut Gravity Brawl. 

I got to watch Matt Bosley, Kevin Jorgeson and Rob D’Anastasio and others duke it out in …