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Returning to

By: colette

07-05-2013

5.10, Catalunya Climbing, Climbing in Europe, Climbing in Spain, Limestone climbing, Oliana, Photography, Rock Climbing, Spain, Travel Journal, Travel Photography

It always amazes me how adaptable the human brain is. Yesterday on NPR I heard how they measure the growth of information in the brain much like you see a muscle form on the arm. You can make yourself more creative or better at a sport. It’s all about putting in time, repetition, repetition, repetition. In essence the human brain is made to assimilate to just about any situation. But despite how a level of me knows this to be true, there continue to be moments where I can’t imagine being able to adapt to anything different than where I am right now.

Pita climbing in Oliana .

Crushing on Crux Crush

By: colette

29-04-2013

5.10, Catalunya Climbing, Climbing in Europe, Climbing in Spain, Climbing Interviews, Climbing Road Trip, Climbing Videos, Colette McInerney, Crux Crush, Eastern Mountain Sports, Five Ten atheletes, Five Ten Footwear, Oliana, On the Road, Petzl Climbing Gear, Photography, Rock Climbing, Sterling Ropes, Travel Journal, Travel Photography, Verve

Crushing on Terradets, Spain.

Check out a sweet little interview Crux Crush was kind enough to put together of yours truly HERE. Gotta say, I’ve always had a soft spot for the female voice in the climbing community! The more the merrier. Keep it up ladies!! <3

The Canarian with Daila Ojeda

By: colette

27-04-2013

Beach Vacation, Catalunya Climbing, Climbing in Spain, Climbing movies, Climbing Videos, Daila Ojeda, Prana

Daila and I had been planning a girl’s get away trip for a months before we finally landed on the idea of visiting her home on the Canary Islands. The idea of shooting a short piece came secondary, but it turned out to be just as impressionable as the wide oceans, and wild winds of Gran Canaria. Having complete creative control over filming while in Canary was a new experience and one that had me falling in love with making movies all over again. Daila is one of my favorite people ever, so it was felt effortless capturing her tranquilo flow and natural beauty. I can’t wait till our next piece, because the only thing that can one up this island is climbing!

Toe and Heel Hooks

By: colette

24-04-2013

Uncategorized

The latest installment of Eastern Mountain Sports How-To Series. These just keep becoming more fun!

Olé!

By: colette

03-04-2013

5.10, Climbing in Spain, Climbing Road Trip, Colette McInerney, Five Ten atheletes, Five Ten Footwear, Limestone climbing, Oliana, On the Road, Pretty photos, Spain, Travel Journal

Simon Carter photo on China Crisis 8b+/14a

Simon Carter was kind enough to share a few photos with me he snapped while here with his wife Monique last week. These were taken when I didn’t think I had a chance in hell of sending this route. Needless to say, I came a long way and was psyched to stick with the process. Hard routes are never a cake walk, and this pure projecting style of climbing isn’t for everyone, but for me it’s as rewarding as it gets!

Climbing Essentials- Edging

By: colette

29-03-2013

Climbing Videos, Eastern Mountain Sports, Five Ten atheletes, Five Ten Footwear, Instructional Videos, Joe Kinder, Rock Climbing

Here’s our latest installment in Eastern Mountain Sport’s “Climbing Essentials”. These have been fun work projects and I hope they prove useful for the new climbers out there!

La Isla Bonita

By: colette

27-03-2013

5.10, Beach Vacation, Catalunya Climbing, Climbing in Spain, Climbing Road Trip, Climbing Videos, Daila Ojeda, Filming, Photography, Prana, Pretty photos, Spain, Top climbers, Travel Journal, Travel Photography

Sand Dunes in the south part of Gran Canaria Island.

I love maps. I grew playing this game where I’d spin this old globe my mom and I had found in some glorified dump, and let my finger tip graze the gliding cylinder until it stopped. Where my finger landed was some exotic location I would imagine my adult self traveling to. It was like geographic fortune telling. Sometimes I would force it stop on the places I thought were the most unlikely to ever explore, like Asia, Egypt, or a chain of islands off the coast of Africa.

Take Five with 5.10 Athlete Gabri Moroni

By: colette

19-03-2013

5.10, Climbing Interviews, Five Ten atheletes, Five Ten Footwear, Gabri Moroni, Professional Climbing, Top climbers, Uncategorized

I’ve been having a lot of fun supplementing my Five Ten blogs with short interviews with some of brands best athletes. Check out my latest HERE with the super talented Gabri Moroni!

Gabri looking series on the comp circuit.

Eastern Mountain Sports, Travel Series Spain II

By: colette

15-03-2013

Climbing in Europe, Climbing in Spain, Climbing Videos, Colette McInerney, Eastern Mountain Sports, EMS Travel Series, Filming making, Five Ten atheletes, Joe Kinder, Limestone climbing, Petzl Climbing Gear, Rock Climbing, Spain, sport climbing, Sterling Ropes, Terradets, Travel Journal, Travel Videos, Video Journals

It’s been really fun putting together these video journals with EMS. Even on a climbing trip it’s not just the sends that leave an impression. Here we think bigger than our projects and head to the city to see what else Spain has to offer.

A tope

By: colette

04-03-2013

5.10, Catalunya Climbing, Climbing in Europe, Climbing in Spain, Eastern Mountain Sports, Five Ten Footwear, Petzl Climbing Gear, Photography, Rock Climbing, Sterling Ropes, Travel Journal, Travel Photography, Verve

Pinching my way up the beautiful tufas in Terradets.

I’ve been wanted to make some sort of graph to demonstrate our moving/ migration/ gypsy pattern. I don’t know, like a pie graph or circle graph or something? I can’t really figure out how to create a physical representation of where we’ve been over the past years. I do know that no matter the graph there will always be at least one bubble, line, mark, notch or whatever for Spain.