If you like to sweat high end climbing as much as I do, then you will be psyched to find out that Paul Robinson has his very own blog. To say that he climbs a lot would be an understatement. Definitely check it out.

New Blog to Check Out

Super Sherpa Expedition
Along with my passion for rock climbing news I also have a fading obsession with armchair mountaineering. With May rapidly approaching that can mean only one thing: it is Everest Season. Sadly, I haven’t been doing much reading on the subject in the past few years. I have already read most of the books (several [...]
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News & Notes – 4/30/2007
This will be an all Red River Gorge news week out of respect for the fire at Red River Outdoors: There is a nice writeup about what might have happened at climbing.com. There are some photos here of the aftermath of the fire. Matt & Amy also have some words of thanks for all the [...]

All’s Not Well In Swizzy
Mixed news out of the climbing paradises of Switzerland. The good news is that James Pearson has made his 2nd flash of a V13 boulder. I had previously reported that he flashed Ganymede Takeover in Brione, Swizzy. This time around he had set his eyes on flashing The Great Shark Hunt at Chironico and that [...]
Valley Bouldering
When we did some bouldering in Yosemite last summer for our Honeymoon, I had assumed that all the bouldering had to have been tapped out. People have been climbing in the Valley for decades, how could everything not have gotten done already right? Turns out like usual, I was wrong. The Dr. Topo guide makes [...]
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Red River Outdoors Fire
Tragedy has struck the well known Red River Outdoors outfit at the Red River Gorge. Apparently a fire has burned down the entire building claiming the life of their dog River. The owners Matt and Amy Tackett are ok. I actually had just made my first visit there a couple of weeks back for breakfast [...]
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Disturbing Trend of Failure
A trend became painfully apparent during my last trip to the RRG: I don’t usually get very much accomplished when I climb there. For the number of days I have climbed there (roughly 50) I don’t really have much to show for it (less than 10 5.12′s in total). I’m not talking about needing to [...]
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Regular Dude Climbs Just Do It (5.14c)
May 22, 2012
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What Did You Do This Weekend?
May 21, 2012
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Ethan Pringle On Jumbo Love
May 18, 2012
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Video Friday – 5/18/2012
May 18, 2012
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Mon Pote Assis (5.14a) By Heather Robinson
May 17, 2012
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When In Doubt Pack It Out
May 16, 2012
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Gravelle Repeats Echale (V14)
May 16, 2012
News & Notes
What Did You Do This Weekend?
Tommy Caldwell and Alex Honnold spent Saturday romping up big walls in Yosemite. The pair free climbed Freerider on El Cap (6:45 climbing), the South Face of Mt. Watkins (2:40 climbing) and the Regular Northwest Face on Half Dome (5 climbing) in just over 21 hours. More at Climbing.com. So…how was your weekend??
Ethan Pringle On Jumbo Love
Ethan Pringle is back at Mt. Clark, home to that one route first done by that one guy:
Projecting a route like this requires all of your attention, and having to devote all of your attention to a route like this can get really tiring really fast. At some point, you just want to get it over with. Of course, afterward you feel a mix of relief and loss. Relief that you’re done and the epic is over, and loss that this magnificent line doesn’t require your presence anymore. But for me, I think I’ll have to take a nice long break from serious route projects for a little while after this. Like Randy Levitt said, “It’s like a limestone El Cap.” Obviously, that’s a bit of an exaggeration, but it does sort of convey the amount of work required to complete a project of this caliber.
Pringle is no stranger to Jumbo Love, having tried it even before its FA back in 2008. You can see some footage of those attempts here.
When In Doubt Pack It Out
I don’t know about you, but I always try my best to climb close to an actual bathroom. In case you don’t, the Access Fund has a nice refresher on what to do when nature calls.





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