Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Update from Scott Fitzgerald, Asana Athlete

Hey Asana!
It looks like your time at the Teva Games was well worth the effort!Amazing job on the flooring!!Another month has passed like lightning and is full of adventure and learning.The job at the local restaurant and saloon is going well. I'm learning a lot about the restaurant business and local Wyoming ranch culture..lol.Climbing this last month has been devoted mainly to getting multi-pitch rock guide certified and doing some guiding on the tower.In mid May, I took a 7 day long 7a-7p guide certification course. It went super well and I got certified to multi-pitch guide. It was a lot of work and we put quite a bit of rock beneath our shoes.Other than the multitudes of easier guiding routes this last month, I haven't done too much hard stuff on the tower.My life has been eaten up by waiting tables and guiding...but hey, I have to work sometime. :-)I have had a Yosemite trip in the plans for at least 4 months, so on May 31st we (I and a friend from home) packed up and left the tower for Yose to do walls and long free routes.We got here to the Valley late on the 1st and headed straight for our first wall of the trip. (West Face of Leaning Tower) We stayed on the wall the 2nd-3rd and came down that night. Since then we have been doing longer free routes to get ready for our goal of the trip. We want to do the Nose in a day together.We are taking a much needed 1.5 day's of rest before getting back on the rock and shooting for that goal. We hope to get on the Nose within a week to try our NIAD venture.
In other news, the production company "Ghettohillbilly Productions" out of Arkansas is doing very well. We are having a time of it by working together over 2000 miles apart, but we are making headway. It's another hot summer in AR, so we are devoting it to learning how to edit and produce. We are waiting on better conditions in the south to get harder problems/routes and better shots.Right now it is a three person production company with only 2 people actually in AR. I have one of the 2 cameras with me getting some western footage. The Devils Tower video still might work out depending on my free time and schedule later this summer...we shall see."Ghettohillbilly Productions" got on the front page of UCMag.tv!!! Check it out! Things are looking good.
I'd still really like to swing by Boise on the way back to Wyoming, but it is still up in the air depending on how long it takes us to accomplish our goals here in the valley.
I think the rest of the day calls for hanging out in the El Cap Meadow starring at the Captain.
That's about it for now,--Scott

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