Jason on Gibbs Cave

CONTACT: jason -at- norope.com

My wife Jolie and I started climbing in August of 1999. We were given 2 free passes to a local gym for our wedding and the rest is history. We started climbing on ropes, but after about two years of floundering around on those silly strings we found Bouldering and we've been addicted ever since. Why? Well, it's pretty simple for me; I never got to the top of a route and said to myself, wow, that was fun. I was always just glad I made it up with out decking or seriously injuring myself. For me, Bouldering was much more rewarding. I was able to concentrate on the moves without thinking about the rope; I could put together incredible and difficult series' of moves and actually enjoy the climbing.

After finally getting outside of the plastic hell we call a gym, I started taking still photos. It wasn't long before I made the transition to video. Video, to me, seems to capture the essence of bouldering . . . the physicality of the moves, the linking of sequences, and the entire atmosphere of road trips and my crew. My "go to" bouldering area is without a doubt the Gunks. Just about every weekend you can find me climbing/filming somewhere at the Trapps, Nears or Peters Kill. If Jolie and I aren't at the Gunks, we are likely at Haycock or one of the other lovely Diabase climbing areas in good old PA. I recently got indoctrinated, and soon fell in love with the sandstone bouldering of West Virginia; both the New River Gorge areas and Cooper's Rock. Jolie and I, and whomever else in the crew can get away, hit the road (or the air, as the case may be) a few times a year to pull down in Bishop, Hueco, Squamish, Boone, or Rocktown. Yawn, that is me in a nutshell... Overall, if I am not climbing or working, I am sitting in front of one of these machines...