alright! Here we go! Let's start with my current sock monkey (from Waterstone), Sophie Sockmonkey! Here she is with a bowl of my homegrown popcorn. We were supposed to take a photo of her with the popped popcorn too, but I guess we forgot. Ruth loved the popcorn!

Sophie Sockmokney had a brief break dancing phase. She got pretty good.

Sophie and I chillin'

One of our first weekends in Chattanooga, we went to Rocktown, in Georgia. Our friends Dan and Zak were there, working on their guidebook to the rock climbing there. Here, Ruth and Julia (who I met once before in Joshua Tree last winter, but she lives in Charleston, WV) decided to start a band. And everyone knows the most important thing to do first (when starting a band) is take a photoshoot for your album cover. We haven't gotten any further with our band, like who will play what insturments..., but we have some good album cover photos to choose from.

Dan was taking photos for the guidebook, so Ruth and I had photoshoots. Yeah, we're kind of a big deal. :) Here's me! On 'Ripple'. You can find me in the Rocktown Guidebook too! Coming out this spring.

A different day at Rocktown. Ruth and I were watching our other roommate (we have even ANOTHER roommate too, but I don't think I have any photos of him in this post..), Ryan climb, but the photo came out so well!

Ruth had her birthday at the end of January, here's a climb she did that day.

Here's one of my proudest climbs I've ever done. It's called Helicopter, because your feet swing around a lot.

this is my favorite problem at Rocktown! No one else liked it.

Here's a new area! This place is called Mountain Brook, named after the apartment complex it is owned by. This is Donald trying a tall, scary problem called Melon Slab.

Now we've moved onto LRC. This is the place we climb most often.LRC is owned by Montlake Golf Club. It's in the woods paralleling the golf course, so every once in a while, when there's an awful golfer, you have to watch out for stray golf balls being shot into the woods. Being owned by a golf club, it naturally costs money to go there. I bought a year pass. To make it worth it, I had to go 40 times from Dec. 5th to April 5th. Yesterday was visit 43! Easy. Here's a photo from when Joe visited over winter break

Joe on Incredarete!

This was another of my really hard climbs. Harder than I've ever done before! It's a V7 called Red House.

This is Jill (a girl I met while here) doing a problem on a day so cold, they closed the golf course. The boulders actually ON the golf course are off limits, unless the golf course is closed, so sometimes people go at night, and there were some others on the fairway this day, but really the only good time to climb on the golf course is on the bouldering competition day they have once a year.

In February (or maybe late January?) Joe went with a Cincinnati school group to Horse Pens 40 in AL. Only 2 hours away for me, so I met up with him. Here he is on my favorite problem there, Spook Eye. He did better than me that trip!

I put lots of photos of me in this post, since everyone got bored with my climbing pictures of other people.

Here's the latest hard problem I did. Jerry's Kids, V7. It's the tallest hard thing I've done, so it took me a really long time to get brave and do it.

last but not least! My friend Cecylia and I took an intro to aerials class! We tried the aerial fabrics, and learned a bunch of beginner moves on the trapeze. It was so fun, that now I'm starting to think I need my OWN trapeze. But they cost upwards of $270, and to make one you need to be able to weld, and "splice rope". Sounds like too much work.

-Stella