From Texas to Central Cali.

George and Sylvan for Gentile Photography.

Me leaving the Sport Climbing.

Me warming up at the Columbia JC Boulders. Photo:George Manriquez

Millions of Peaches...Peaches for me.

Going home to the West Coast was quite grounding. I left EP on the 12th of January and flew into Orange County. My biological mother; Richelle picked me up and we drove back to Yerbe Linda to eat pizza and meet her boyfriend Stuart and kick it on the Wii with my two younger bros: Matty and Joeseph. The following day I hung out with Stuart around the house and proceeded to meet my bo mom at her work.

She works in the eduacational department in the nutritional department....I met all her co workers and began a stay back in San Diego for about a week. As usual....back in San Diego was full of hanging with friends and family and visiting the local climbing gym....Vertical Hold.

I went to the gym about three times when I was home and ventured back to El Paso with a bit of a tweak in my left hand ring finger. Damn Plastic.

After returning to Hueco Tanks George Manriquez picked my ass up from the airport and laid down a proposition.

"Would you be down to go back to Cali"?

The job search hadn't been going that well, considering most jobs in EP you have to be Bi-langual to get. Unless you can shake yo' ass:).

The Black light party still went down as planned @ the Ranch and it took me till the day we left to recover. Monday morning I felt great. George wanted to hit the park back up to try and send "Babyface" I gave him my pad and told him "God's speed.. slice".

Back at the office I realized that going to San Diego would only put about an hour more onto the trip. George neared and we sat in the office showing him the bew beta through mapquest. He was down and we decided to spend the night and the next at my casa by the sunny coast of southern california.

The on Monday morning, Carlos, George and myself charged from San Diego to the central California location of Palo Alto to drop off Kern to visit his girlfriend and take care of some of his work for www. albertmasonmeinzer.com.

After dropping off Carlos, George and I ventured a bit South East to Escalon,CA. The land of peaches and Cream.

Georges family: Mother whom I call Ms. Manriquez and their younger daughter Theresa were warm and perfect house hosts to me. I do the dishes and help out as much as possible around the house.

The relentless pursuit to find a job in this economy has been taking up most of my time.

So far I have been interviewed for Mcdonalds and In Shape fitness. Not top of the line; but this is something I need to do.

The other potential opportunity, lies in Yosemtie Valley. I applied in Hueco for the DNC parks service. The potential jobs out in the Valley are resumed by previous employees while those who have not been employed need to stop the half step. Basically, I think what I must do is go to the Valley with George and personally confront the managers. Cross your fingers.

As far as the climbing goes, I have completed what I have came to see.

I shot so high and ith so much thought in the past. I was always about trying to picture what the future would look. Tell me this....When someone tells you of some area, some house, any where you might have not been but are going. How often does your vision match the exact reality of what that place really looks like? Not that f wordin' often?! Right. What I'm gettin' at is their is no way to really predict the outcome of the choices you make. Yeah, the obvious..Cause and effect. (hard work=pay off, bad choices=bad things)But, if you find out how to see into the future....let me know.

I'm just going with the flow now. I have climbing central to me, I have my motivation towards working, and I have a place to stay. Basically, I'm livin' it.

George and I got to check out Jailhouse. I am quite sure it's the best sport climbing in California besides Clark Mountain. I will be spending my time getting my climb on there.

Other spots that are central to me I am planning to visit are "Mickey's beach", Yosemite, Toulemne, Santa Cruz, and other obscure areas.

Since were a bit low on money we have been going to the local Modesto Gym, "Stonhenge" and gettin' our train on.

There is not a ton of hard stuff, but I have been making do to have some good old butt clenchin' fun.

Besides Jailhouse, George, Tanya, and myself visited the local Sonora Community College "Columbia JC" which is one of the more...shall I say interesting? bouldering areas I've been to. Nestled in this community college is hiking trail leading to a small collection of limestone deposits. The problems go from V0-v10 and provide for some fun bouldering.

With a good bouldering area, and some of the best hard sport climbing in California...I'm happy.

As soon as the loot starts rollin' in I plan to visit the Valley (if no job is secured) frequently and get my taste of climbing in the Valley for a summer. I am definately interested in getting more of a traditional background and doing some exciting and fun cross training in the valley. I am really motivated to climb my first 14a by the end of my twenty fourth year of my life.

Having this central location serves somewhat as a balance. A short stint to so cal, an hour from the city of San Fran. I'm finding myself in a good place. I want to work, and get aquainted with the surrounding areas. I'm trying not to think in the future. More so, keep my head straight and stay directed in the now. Like a man I met intersted in Buddhist philosophy, "everything just seems to work itself out."

OH yeah....I almost forgot. Geoerge's father Vince, hooked us up with an not so frequenct gig doing photography Gentiles Photography shooting sports potraits for little league to high school teams. The gigs are cool and pay well but for right now...I need money. Besides...it's a super cool opportunity and I am more than happy with Vince's effort to help both George and myself. I like who I work with. Keep checkin!
XO Everyone!

-Scooter

Just a check up

The long lost child....can you see the resemblence?
From left top:Virgil, Gilbert, Katie, Scotty.....Second Row:JOe Gram, Matt, Mom, Uncle Tony..Bottom Row is Grandpa Rich.
The ranch during the Cryptochild Hangboard contest.
The beautfiul Vanessa Compton bartends Saki while Jason and I catch up a little bit.

Since the Cryptochild's hangboard pull up contest, I visited my biological family in Austin. Richelle Gutierrez (my bio mom) picked me up with my two half brothers: matty and Joe. We drove to a small town called Bastrop. Since I chose to find my long lost family; I feel that it is my responsibility to uphold frequent contact. Bastrop, was really cool. The area is very nice. I met my Granpa Rich. (richelle's father) I met my half sister Katie (she is 18) and I met Virgil (papa) who I had not seen since I was born on May 19th, 1986 (fuckin' crazy eh?) Virgil was the man to provide insurance when I was born. My first birth certificate reads:

Scott Fontenot

When given up for adoption, I had another birth certificate made:

Scott Glasberg

You ever met a motha ucka with two families and two identities.....Naw? You know me.....Pretty Coooool.

I also met Tony Turano, My uncle. Tony is real similar to me....except I don't think he likes to party like I do. :) He does like a lot of active things and rides bikes a lot. He lives in Portland Oregon....I really like Tony a lot. Ill be up there in April Region TonY!!!!!!

Here I am....Sittin' at the air puerto in El Paso. My buddy George Manriquez dropped me off this morning.

I'll be flying into Orange County where my biological mom will pick me up. I am looking forward to meeting her boyfriend Stuart; whom I've never met before. I'll hang out up in Yerba Linda for the night with my bros and mom and Stu.

The next day Richelle will drive me down to San Diego. I'm looking forward to a week back at home where I'll get to see my family, and friends. I am looking forward to getting out in the water, catch some waves, catch some rays, and hang with my close friends.

I need to find a job when I get back to EP because I am finally starting to run out of money. Sweet!!!! No JK.

While I'm writing this I am sitting in the Pheonix AeroPuerto. It's a nice airport. Sorta big. Pretty excited to get home.

I am trying to plan a party but I have to talk to my father, or find some one's place to throw it at. If you have any suggestions....Send me a shout on FACEBOOK.

While at home. I plan to hang out with friends, catch up with my family, pet my cat, enjoy the warm weather, and surf my brains out. I'll be training on plastic when back at the local Vertical Hold.

I am really proud of one of my best friends, I won't say any names; but I am excited to see her life becoming much more clear to her than over the summer. I talked to her the other night....her voice sounded more like a woman, more mature. I'm really proud and can't wait to see what's new.

As far as my boys....Carlos is headed out of town, I definately wanna to link up With Jack

"WHAT UP JACK!" Ben, Thomas, Berry, Taylor, Nate dog. if I left ya out you know I luv ya!

Carlos and I are going to meet up on the nineteenth. His only day in town. Though he does fly in that morning and leave that night...Busy boy....but somebody's gotta buy scotty a mansion. JK kern ;). PK, an old climbing friend wants to meet up too and have some beers. PK is Michelle K's Brother and climbed with me when I first started climbing about 6 years ago. He motivated me to have forearms that big...hahah JK.

The Ranch and Park has been really excellent. Working on the ranch I have acquired a really great set of friends. A shout to George, Mogley, Charles, Brian, Frank, Dave, Le Sean, Marc, and Neal. Oh yeah, Yuri, Val, Al. It's sorta like a big family. The coolest thing is that everyone climbs. One of the hardest things about my climbing life has been the lack of friends I have that climb. I think throughout High School and College, I brought only 2 or maybe 3 friends that I had known from my local area---climbing. I'm not saying I wished I had, But it is NICE to build with peers your age, and bond through a productive activity like Climbing.

I am getting along with everyone at the ranch and am looking forward to the rest of the time there.

Also big shout out to Austin Williams for coming through to the Tanks on his way to Florida. You shouldn't have bailed that mornin' Austin I got in Supa' quick bruddah. Anyways see you soon bro...was good having some local company out in the 'armpit of Texas.'

Jason, Abby, Joe, Collette, are also out not to mention the spring break kids that have been riding through.

I really enjoy working at the ranch. I am in charge of all the parties. We'll be hosting them at the house every saturday. So get yo O face on ..OH OH OH.

I think one of the coolest things that is exciting me is having built quite good relations with George, Mogley, and Le Sean. Instead of leaving a climbing area alone. We all plan to caravan to Bishop and then Yosemite Valley. This will be the first time....out of all my travelin' (which is a shit load of traveling) Am I spending the season with friends going from one world class destination to another. This will be my first summer i the valley. I got one goal. Do Midnight Lightning! And climb some valley V10's or some shiat. I just talked to my buddy Geiss out in Vegas. I am wanting to take a trip out there too....A ton of new Potosi Routes are going up and they are world class. The link I will be posting in a few days to his VEGAS CLIMBING website. Thanks Uncle G!

So here's a schedule of my upcoming activities.

Jan 12th- 20th......................San Diego (friends, family, job search, surf, skate, climb)

Jan 2oth- 29th......................Chrissy comes tto El Paso his first time in Eons.

Feb-March 4.........................Work in EP, partake and help for Rock Rodeo

March 4th...........................Head west with the Caravan to BIshop

April- Summer........................WOrk in the Yosemite Valley at a Job George can get (pizza) night bouldering ...Maybe save up for trip to Austin in the August Region to go DWS.

I'm trying to think If I left anything out....? I don't know...anways.....thanks for checkin' in....See ya'll soon.