had one of the proudest days of my life, athletically, yesterday. completed a years-long journey to redpointing (climbing, on lead, without a fall or taking/weighting the rope) a 5.12a route. that's something i've worked on physically, mentally, and dedicated a significant amount of time to in 2024 and 2025 in particular. this route took me 10 days and 21 attempts, with a lot of mental/tactical/approach mistakes that i think can be corrected on future routes at this grade to hopefully do them in half the attempts. there's a whole skillset to projecting something. anyway, i'm fucking stoked to prove to myself i can do that. it's borderline amateur-elite level, or about 90% percentile for the small-subset of overall climbers who climb outside. the table below is the "max" redpoint i've reached per year since beginning to climb. partly for NikolaiFyodorov, but mostly because AUS/NZ uses the least-annoying system for classifying the difficulty of a climb (difficulty goes up, number goes up, that's...it).