What are you climbing goals this season?

I thought this would be interesting...

By the end of the season (novemberish) I'm hoping to be getting into 5.7 (trad) leading (currently 5.4 leader). It'd be really cool to get to where I can consistently follow 5.10 without too much thrashing about.

I want to tick several big snow climbs along the front range as well as at least a couple of multi-pitch trad routes that I followed last summer.

I'm hoping to get some class 3 routes on a couple of the 14ers in CO as well.

Big plans....

Should be a fun summer.

Nice thread.

I have a few specific goals. There are a few climbs down at Ralph Stover in Pa that I want to conquer. 2 are 5.8+ classics that have kicked my butt last year. Last fall I was getting closer to the cruxes but just couldn't quite pull them. I'm hoping to nail them this spring. The other is a monster 5.10 called Phone Booth and I hope to nail it sometime this year.

I also want to do a lot more climbing in the Delaware Water Gap. It's so close to home and there are tons of trad routes there that I want to get familiar with. Hopefully, enough climbing there will pay dividends when I hit the Gunks where I want to bump up my lead grades this year. Leading High Exposure is high up on that list.

I've got a couple routes that spit me out last year that i need to get back to and complete clean. I need to sit down and make a little tick list for myself!

High Ex is a stiff 7 isn't it?

You also need to come west there Pennsy - i'm gonna put your spork under a rock on top of Wind Ridge in Eldo and make you go get it. :-p

High E is actually a 5.6 (last pitch 6+) but it's so freaking scary because it's so steep and exposed. I still laugh about the guide who was bringing up a client and encountered a party who were bailing. The guy said "I lead 5.10 back home but that (pointing up to the money pitch) is sick!"

Yeah yeah, I need to go west. I just wish I didn't hate travelling so much. I didn't get a new spork yet, so I guess there is hope.

I've heard the grades at the Gunks are generally pretty stiff. Some people say the Eldo Canyon grades are all sandbags, but it's just that the old school grades have never been downgraded and thus some climbs can seem a bit stiffer than other, later developed areas. those dudes from the 50's and 60's were badazz!