Thanks to the reader with the semi-inappropriate screen name that sent me a heads up on this article. Climbing has hit the front pages of The New York Times…sort of. Controversial climber, slack liner and BASE-jumper Dean Potter has a big article on his latest non-climbing adventure: a combination of highlining and Base-jumping. For those [...]
Archive | 2008
Climb Like A Girl
This is another guest post from Zonk. If you would like to write a guest post on any climbing related subject or share some pictures from a recent roadtrip, please contact me. I was going to write a diatribe on the bad journalism that one often sees in climbing news. And I thought about writing [...]
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Dave MacLeod Free Solos 5.14b in Spain
Dave MacLeod, best known for his difficult headpoints in Britain, recently free soloed Darwin Dixit (5.14b) in Margalef, Spain. Unless someone can think of something harder, this is probably the hardest free solo (not a highball boulder) ever done. I couldn’t find much information on the route as far as how tall it is or [...]
Don’t Fall Mode
If there is one dream I have, it is to simultaneously hold down a respectable job and travel the world climbing. Mike Doyle is living my dream. He has spent the last couple of years on the road, working his IT job remotely and climbing at some of the best areas across the world. Recently [...]
News & Notes – 3/10/2008
Just an update on Beth Rodden’s new 5.14 trad route Meltdown. Big Up Productions was there filming her work on the route for the upcoming Dosage 5. Big Up shares their first hand takes on what went down including nuggets like, “After about 10 sessions of working it on top-rope Tommy was never able to [...]
Gem Lake
With one day to ourselves before our coaching duties commenced for the recent ABS Nationals comp in Boulder, we somehow had to pick only a couple of activities out of the myriad things to do in the Frontrange to spend the day doing. I very badly wanted to visit RMNP in some way, but I [...]
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Micah Dash Slideshow
La Sportiva and Mountain Hardwear athlete Micah Dash paid Adventure Rock a visit this past Friday night. He shared with the gathered crowd stories and pictures from his travels around the world. The highlight was his most recent adventure that culminated in the first ascent of the Shaffat Fortress with Jonny Copp in the Kashmir [...]
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Charlietrees: Your foot finding a human P Bomb is a sure way of ...
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Daniel: Really cool edit. One of the better climbing short...
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Joe Corrado: #1 on my destination list...mind will forever be b...
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Narc: My mind is still blown......
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Pat C: He's also really close on Midnight Express, go Yv...
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CarlosFromPhilly: Any idea how old he is? So awesome to know that h...
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