News & Notes – 2/27/2009
February 27, 2009 
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The past couple of weeks have been pretty above average when it comes to news. There have been a high number of hard sends and noteworthy achivements:
- Hotaches Productions has posted a cool clip of Ben Cossey highball bouldering the route/boulder Simba’s Pride (E8 6b).
- Climbing Magazine has a good interview with Australia’s Chris Webb Parsons on their website.
- Chuck Fryberger’s new bouldering flick Pure premiered last Friday night in Boulder and the reviews are in. Here is a review from AllClimbing and here is one from BoulderDiaries.
- James Webb repeated two Dave Graham V13’s this weekend in Arkansas, suggesting a possible downgrade to V12 for both. The problems in question are Chunk Up The Deuce and Loved By Few Hated By Many (2nd ascent?). Webb also did 4 V11’s.
- American Chris Schulte has climbed his first V14 during his current trip to Fontainebleau, Gecko Assis. You can read arecent interview with Schulte at Mountains and Water, and I highly recommend checking out his website as well.
- On the heels of his first V14 comes Chris Schulte’s second V14 Kheops Assis. Originally graded V15, this line has had a suggested downgrade from 3 repeaters now (Schulte, Graham, Landman).
- On the still not-functioning-in-the-U.S. MoonBlog comes apparent word that Ty Landman has repeated Kheops Assis (V14) in Fontainbleau. (Via TheLowDown)
- Jacinda Hunter has made an impressive FFA of Dave Graham’s Breaking The Law (5.14b) at Black and Tan, UT. Check out the video at MVM.
- Current Climbing Magazine coverboy Kevin Jorgeson has started himself a proper blog. Check it out at http://kjorgeson.blogspot.com/.
- Patagonia has updated their interactive Tin Shed website with a batch of new stories and videos. Check their blog for the list of updates.
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