I am blown away by Switzerland. We have been here for nearly four weeks now, and I still can’t get over how good this place is.

When we planned this trip, I knew very little about the climbing in Switzerland and pushed hard for splitting our time equally between here and Fontainebleau. I was outnumbered, however, and we decided to spend five weeks on Swiss granite and three on French sandstone. I was worried that my time here would be spent sitting in front of some isolated 8b+ that I couldn’t touch while the boys threw themselves at it. I soon learned that having enough to climb on in Switzerland was a laughable concern. Now, as our stay here draws to a close, I feel like I have barely scratched the surface of what this place has to offer. There is certainly a lifetime of bouldering for me in Switzerland and it is all amazing. 

Ryan Olson and Jason Pinto have joined Jamie and I for the European leg of our trip. After many months of planning, our group of four left Boulder on February 19^th. Eleven hours in the air were topped off by an eight hour drive from Paris to the Swiss canton of Ticino. We arrived at our apartment in Claro, Switzerland after thirty hours of continuous travel and met up with two other friends from Colorado who were already here. Despite our exhaustion, we made a late night trip to Cresciano to look at Dreamtime, which is as beautiful and inspiring as I hoped it would be.