Dmitry Kalashnikov

This weekend went to Leavenworth again and I’ve had a really good day of climbing. It was one of those perfect temperature zero-gravity days. I warmed up by ripping a hold off the problem that everyone was trying. Haha. Felt kinda bad about it, since we were all going to do it. Then we went up the hill and I ended up flashing some v8 and also flashing the harder, direct version of it!My friend Adam Heley came over from Portland with a bunch of his buddies, including Boone Speed. Johnny (Goicoechea), Lena, Cole, Kyle, and Joel Cambel were already there when I got to L-town. Later on that day we ran into John from EPIC (EWU) program and like 10 other people from Spokane. I’ve never seen that many monkeys at Leavenworth campgrounds before. Boone took some awesome pictures, Johnny, Cole and Joel went climbing at some new area they recently discovered. We all had fun and partied afterwards at the camp ground. Too bad I had to leave early in the morning to help my friend move.

When I was in college, I had two computer classes in which we had to do a major final project. One of them was on relational databases and another on Java/Swing GUI programming. I also needed some kind of journaling software to keep track of my climbing and training. I wanted something that helped me visualize my progress and help me train more efficiently. So, I made Klimb, the very first Rock Climbing Training software. It helped me pass my classes, train smarter for comps and make some cash on the side!

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