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News & Notes – 1/30/2009

News & Notes – 1/30/2009

Posted January 30, 2009 at 6:36 am · Comments { 1 } ·

Since I usually forget half the items I want to use for the News & Notes posts, I started posting them as I find them on the top of the front page of Climbingnarc.com.  To avoid clutterring your RSS reader, these individual posts are not published to the RSS feed.  At the end of each [...]

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Pure Trailer

Pure Trailer

Posted January 29, 2009 at 4:42 pm · Comments { 15 } ·

Chuck Fryberger has a new bouldering film coming out.  His latest work is called Pure, and frankly it looks like it could be pretty cool.  It features climbers American audiences don’t get to see a lot of like Nalle Hukkataival, Fred Nicole and Kilian Fischhuber along with rising American star Kevin Jorgeson.  Despite some earlier bad blood inducing [...]

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2009 Outdoor Retailer Winter Market Wrap-ups

Posted January 29, 2009 at 5:49 am · Comments { 0 } ·

Rockclimbing.com has 3 nice write-ups on the climbing side of the recent Outdoor Retailer trade show in Salt Lake City.  Check them out:  Day 1, Day 2, Day 3.

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Spraycaster Climbing Logbook App For iPhone/iPod Touch

Spraycaster Climbing Logbook App For iPhone/iPod Touch

Posted January 28, 2009 at 7:21 am · Comments { 14 } ·

Spraycaster is a new application that was recently released for Apple’s iPhone (or iPod Touch).  It’s main purpose is to serve as another method for keeping track of the climbs you do on a given day.  If you are the kind of person that likes to meticulously log your training sessions this app could be [...]

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Steph Davis Meetup During ABS Nationals

Posted January 28, 2009 at 5:41 am · Comments { 1 } ·

If you are going to be in Boulder for ABS Nationals, one event that might be worth checking out is the recently announced Meetup with Steph Davis on Friday 2/13.  Davis will also be giving a slideshow Thursday at Neptune Mountaineering.

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A Wisconsin Trifecta: 3 Areas, 3 Disciplines, 3 Classic Hard Lines

A Wisconsin Trifecta: 3 Areas, 3 Disciplines, 3 Classic Hard Lines

Posted January 27, 2009 at 7:15 am · Comments { 7 } ·

The news of Josh Wharton’s recent trifecta of 3 difficult bouldering, mixed and sport climbing challenges rekindled a hair brained idea I thought up last year.  For those that didn’t see it, Wharton redpointed an M10 mixed route, bouldered a V10 and redpointed a 5.13 sport route all within the span of a week.  This [...]

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Alex Honnold & Paul Robinson Interviews

Posted January 27, 2009 at 6:28 am · Comments { 3 } ·

A couple of good interviews to check out:  one with Paul Robinson and the other with Alex Honnold.

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Carlo Traversi & Emily Harrington Are 2009 SCS National Champions

Posted January 27, 2009 at 6:26 am · Comments { 1 } ·

Carlo Traversi and Emily Harrington won their respective divisions at this weekend’s SCS Adult National Championships.  DPM has a great write-up as well.

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Quick On The Draw X

Quick On The Draw X

Posted January 26, 2009 at 8:50 am · Comments { 1 } ·

On Saturday a record crowd descended on my local gym, Adventure Rock, for the 10th Annual Quick On The Draw competition.  I have had the pleasure of attending the last 9 QotD’s and they are always a good time with this year being no exception. Afraid of getting shown up by a bunch of climbers in [...]

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