A collage from Bishop

Here is a movie with mixed footage from previous trips to Bishop.

Bishop #3

I have been in Bishop again for a week, and have a couple of days left in this hell hole. Although, the weather has been kinda bad, we have been able to climb as much as we want.

This place is sill freaking amazing and I could definitely stay here for a LONG time, BUT a person in this party have some kind of job that she has to be back for (ha, can you believe that, a JOB, what an asshole).

Have been working on a boulder called "Haroun and the sea of stories" V11. For a trip like this, it has been the the first time I worked a problem for more then 1 day. I really enjoy it this time and its super fun. It would be fun to be able to do it, if not, i guess i just have to keep eating my donuts and watch Oprah with a glass of wine.

Anyway, killing some time in Starbucks right now, watching rednecks and hillbilly's buying there coffee and peeling out in there big dumb trucks.

The sweet following photos is taken by Steve Marcil.

Steven the dog feels fancy in the morning

Mt. Tom goes domestic in the evening

A Visit in Joe's

Enjoy this short and pretty shitty piece of video. I was planing to take more footage from this little trip, BUT because of some weird sickness/stomach cramps I spent most of the time in the car with the "tail" between my legs.

Back in Bishop

Back in the most beautiful place in the world, no fucking question about it. Andrew and I drove down here 5 days ago and have 4 days left. One day on, one day of is pretty much the perfect schedule right now. Its sharp so you need those rest days to grow back some skin. I still haven't been anywhere else then up in the Buttermilks area.There is a lot of different sectors you could go to BUT it feels like I could spend way more time in the Buttermilks before I get bored. The scenery and the amount of high quality problems makes this area last a long time.

The Climbing has been really good, it is really fun climbing with Andrew, both of us is pretty much psyched on the same things which is cool.

One of the things i'm the most psyched on now is Evilution. I did it to the lip a couple of days ago, so now its "just" the rest of it left. The hardest move is definitely the first move but you have a to do a V6 boulder at the lip which is about 7 meters up (picture above). Just have to see how it goes, probably going to set up a rope(top rope the hell out of it) to figure out the moves and also to save my back, ankles etc. No matter what, its by far the most beautiful boulder I have ever seen so I feel like I at least have to try to get up on it.

I have done a couple of V10:ish problems during this trip. Staind Glass is one of them which i'm pretty psyched about, one of those problems that after the first couple of tries is like, "mkay, this will go the next try", but instead turns in to a three day epic experience. One factor to this is definitely that the holds are pretty sharp, you want to save your tries so that you wont be fucked up for the rest of the trip.

I'm going to shut this down for now and drive up and try to find "Xavier's Roof", a boulder which I think is more or less under snow. I want to take the snow of and let the sun do the rest.

Tomorrow we are going back up to Buttermilks and Haroun and the sea of stories V12, the goal is to figure out all the moves, then we just have to put the 20+ moves boulder together.

Holy shit, this post turned out to be the longest one by far, and also pretty damn boring. Well, well, so it goes.

Old photos

Went through a bunch of old photos from the last couple of years, because I'm a loser and have nothing to do. I'm posting these photos for other "people" who also don't have nothing better to do.

SO, after watching this, go burn some churches or whatever it is you do to contribute to your society.

(Don't worry, just another attempt at some tasteless humor - kind of)

Sörkedalen, Oslo

Scarface, Indian Creek

Värmlandsexpedition

Någonstans i dom djupa Värmländska skogarna

Djupdalen, as far as I know, the middle of this wall is still a project

My brother is heavy loaded in Filipstad

Camp fire alagresive

He ran....

....for NOTHING

Jakob in his right element.

Of all photos I had of Jakob, at least 80% of them had something to do with coffee. I am not complaining, just think its pretty damn perfect....

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Me, following my role models steps, trying to keep up...

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With a thermos like that its not much more room for other stuff, which he is MORE than happy to pas down to his younger cousin.

Oj, oj, oj. This Italian stallion made one of my days in Sardinia. This is just one of ALL the photos I took of them. Similar poses and forms where made during 10-15 minutes in front of (assuming) "his" picture-taking-lady

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Stephan Szöllös on some random route in Monsant, Spain

Andreas finslipar sitt hemmabygge.

Siurana, Spain

Sanddjuret

Dagens ungdom

Torr grupprakning

Siurana, Spain

Motivational Video

Extreme Skate Skiing from David Sjoquist on Vimeo.

I have edited a short little motivational movie for my cousin, Jakob "Rycket" Stromner, and my father Per "Veteranen" Sjoquist. Apparently they have the same skis and I figured that a motivational video like this will make it even more fair in the mental game, adding to their high-elevation training and consuming of pasta.

First of Many

First of many from David Sjoquist on Vimeo.

I have scraped my pockets and bought a computer, whats up! I have edited my first shitty movie and this is the result.

It's a mix of problems from the latest alpinism in Moe's Valley and Bishop:

IsRail V6 in Moe's

Moonraker V9 - Buttermilks

Staind Glass V10 - Buttermilks