As usual when we go out of town I fell way behind on my obsessing over what other people are doing in the climbing world. It took me a few days to get through everything in my reader, but I think I am finally caught up. Here are a few things that caught my eye, but feel free to let me know in the comments if you think I might have missed something else worth noting.
- Dead Point Magazine is a bi-monthly climbing magazine that will be launching in October. If you are thinking that there are already too many climbing magazines you might be right. The difference with Dead Point is that it will be distributed for FREE. Someone with a lot more knowledge about the business, Dougald MacDonald, has some thoughts on whether or not it will work. So far their website looks pretty cool although some of the pages don’t work when I load them in Firefox. They have a good interview with Adam Taylor who was recently the first person to repeat The Crew (5.14c) in Rifle after a bunch of holds broke. Also worth noting is their promise to pay you $1000 if you can repeat an Ethan Pringle 5.14c at Clark Mt. This is an interesting concept, but as you can see in the next item, simply getting to this crag is going to require 5.14 driving skills.
- Speaking of Clark Mt., according to Chris Lindner you are going to need that $1000 bounty just to get your vehicle up to the crag due to a recent rainstorm washing out much of the road.
The “road” to Clark Mt.
Photo: Chris Lindner
- This is not really newsworthy per se, but I found it interesting nonetheless. Chris Sharma recently repeated his problem The Buttermilker (V13) over 9 years after he made the FA. In the middle of the summer no less.
- Jason Huston has a good post up about the self-entitled nature of climbers showing through (even more than usual) in Rifle lately. Especially humorous is his calling out of a certain famous female free solo BASE jumper who may or may not be married to a famous BASE Soloist.
- If you are ever contemplating a trip to Yosemite to do some bouldering, be sure to check out this comprehensive list of quality Yosemite boulder problems at each of the grades.
- Cloudveil is offering up to 60% off on some items until 9/1 (Via Splitterchoss).
- Nicolas Favresse recently made the 2nd ascent of the Cobra Crack (5.14) in Squamish. Check out his website for some great pictures of him on the route.
Photo: Ben Ditto
- So how many of you have seen Dosage 5 so far?? If yes, how did you like it? If no, what are you waiting for?? I hope to have a review put together soon.
