Told you so, HA! Psyched, stoked, happy — all the standard superlatives apply. Good ol' sunshine. It just makes me want to sing songs by The Allman Brothers and eat a goddamn peach, I'll tell ya.

This morning we realized that the rains had brought a load of toads into the dried-out swimming pool in our yard. They had no way out and had been treading six inches of water until they croaked. No pun intended. Lisa waded in today with some kitchen utensils and saved the remaining. It was epic. It was brave. She is Lisa Rands!!! Lisa also finished her two-year project and dispatched Nutsa (V12) today. Proud.

Yesterday the whole group hiked back out to The Eight Day Rain Sector. Which, by the way, was named after a storm last season twice as long as the one we just sat though. Conditions were amazing and we were greeted by a group of baboons calling the boulders we were about to climb on home. After a little standoff, we proved to be the larger apes. Your strong mo' spray down goes like this: Daniel flashed Tony's new classic Barracuda (V11), as well as Black Mango (V11) and the Shark Arete (V10). Paul followed close to suit and by day's end added a nice sit-start to Barracuda (V12).

The day was ending and I decided to revisit a nice boulder I had noticed weeks before. I was very surprised that the belly had a few "holds". I tell ya folks, it looks impossible. Six moves of Compression beyond Compressing. By headlamps Daniel, Noah, and I started chalking up holds and psyching up Woods. He did all the moves in the cool evening temps; each move at or near his limit. It is now a matter of time before someone links them all and sends it. I am very excited to see the progression of this boulder. Tonight we will hike back out to the boulder by headlamps again