-The Sharp End-
life, technology, and the pursuit of adventure

Sum­mer is wind­ing down and I’m back spend­ing hours behind the desk catch­ing up on all the back log. Man, what a great sum­mer! I’ve been on a project tour of Vir­ginia, Wash­ing­ton DC, Aspen,Co, Boul­der, CO, Peru, and of course some climb­ing in between. I’ve met some incred­i­ble peo­ple, been inspired by their tal­ents, and stories.

One lucky oppor­tu­nity this sum­mer was work­ing with pro climbers Court­ney Sanders and Daniel Woods at Domin­ion River Rock ear­lier this year. I was doing my first film project and did a short on Court­ney. After only climb­ing for about 6 months, Court­ney met Daniel Woods and was imme­di­ately thrust into the pro­fes­sional climb­ing world. Can you imag­ine? Six months in, I don’t think I even knew what half the climb­ing terms were! The sim­plest prob­lem seemed so impos­si­ble, even when some­one showed me the moves.

This story intrigued me.

I recently pub­lished the short on Vimeo and shared it with Court­ney. I was com­pletely ner­vous that she might not like it.… But for­tu­nately she not only loved it, she shared it on her blog. I was so very hon­ored by that!

This being my first short doc­u­men­tary piece, I was a bit shy to post it. There is so much of the story yet to be told, so it feels a bit unfin­ished & rough. But, I’m try­ing to let that go and embrace the learning/adventure that is film mak­ing.

Either way, Court­ney & Daniel are amaz­ingly tal­ented climbers and gen­uinely sweet peo­ple. Court­ney has been able to accom­plish in a few short years what many top climbers have spent a good por­tion of their life on. So, please check it out and let me know what you think!