Update:

I simply call this an update because, I have been updating two things. One my skills and the other my gear. My skills are being honed in the gym. My gear via ebay and EMS.

My overall fitness levels have not been as they were last winter. I have put on weight. I didn't paddle or bike through the summer. So my shoulders are vulnerable to injuries if I pull too hard. My tendons are vulnerable too, driven by the fact that my workout isn't balanced.
At the gym, I seem to be doing the 5.9s more consistenly clean, but 5.10s still elude me. They are either too reachy, or too slopy for my fingers to remain in good grip. Or too balancy a move for me. It's always seems like I start on a 5.10 and call it quits midway or scratch my way up.

On the brighter side, I seem to now have an arsenal of gear to make up choicest racks depending on location I will be climbing at.

A break down of the same.

>>>>Biners:

- Total of 120

- 18 lockers

- 21 ovals

- 20 Ds

- 21 Straight gates

- 10 Bent gates

- 30 Wiregates

>>>>About 14 slings of various lengths for quickdraws

>>>>Protection:

>>> Passive - My passive range covers from 4 milimeters to 8.9 centimeters. My weakest gaps are under 4 milimeters range. I don't have anything to cover for such small cracks in my passive gear. Then after 7.5 centimeters, I have two pieces that covers the range upto 8.9 and that's about it.

>> 32 Stoppers:

- A set of Black Diamond nuts (2-13)

- A partial set of DMM Wallnuts (3-6)

- A set of Trango Nutz (1-8)

- partial set of Black Diamond Stoppers (2-6, & 11)

- Couple of Wild country pieces (5 & 6).

>> 8 Micro Nuts:

- HB Wales Offset Bronzes 3-6

- Black Diamond Micro Stoppers 3-6

>> 14 Hexes

- Slung Black Diamond hex set 4-10, Wired 11

- Wired 8, Slung 9, 10, Wired 11

- Metolius Curved hex 5

>> 10 Tricams

- Set one - .5, 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3, 4

- Set two - .5, 1, 1.5

>>> Active - Active protection pieces I have cover ranges from 3 milimeters to 16.3 centimeters. The ranges mentioned here are not cam lobe ranges, but actual working range of the active pieces. I have typically two pieces to cover every milimeter between these ranges. Weakest links being, 6.2 or 3 centimeter (just one cam:) and from 10.1 centimeters to 13.1, and then again from 15.2 to 16.3, just one cam each to protect that range.

>> 6 Ball nuts

- Camp - 1, 2, 3

- Lowe/Byrne - 1, 2, 3

>> 24 Cams

- Metolius TCU - 1, 3, 4
- Metolius Power cam - 2

- Metolius Power cam - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

- Black Diamond Camlots - .75, 1, 2, 3, 4, 4.5, 5

- Black Diamond c3 - 00, 0

- Wild Country Technical cam - 6

>>>> in addition to all the hardware above, I have two pulleys, one small ascender, four belay devices (Grigri, two BD ATCs, & BD ATC Guide), two nut tools, a knife, two ropes (a 60 meter and a 50 meter), length of prusiks and anchor ropes, about 160' of webbing for top rope anchors, and miscellaneous slings.

>>>> To augment my backwoods experience and to satiate my gear hunger, I have three headlamps, Princeton tec Eos, Petzl Myo XP & another Petzl nameless, but powerful headlamp. Three trekking poles, one Katadyn Vario water filter, two wireless FRS phones, a first aid kit, an array of backpacks including North Face Spire 33, BD Hollowpoint, another large sized North Face backpack, and so on.