The Access Fund has an alert on their website about some potential negative changes on the horizon for climbers in Yosemite Valley. Check it out to see how you can help.

Access Alert In Yosemite
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Hayden Kennedy Climbing Carbondale Short Bus (5.14-)
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Oz
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“You think it will be cool till it isn’t fun anymore”
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Bad Girls Club (5.14d) Repeated By Jon Cardwell
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Oz
This incredible photo essay by Keith Ladzinski from his trip to Australia last year with Dave Graham, Nalle Hukkataival and Ian Dory would make a great coffee table book don’t you think? (h/t Josh on twitter for the link).
“You think it will be cool till it isn’t fun anymore”
The North Face catches up with their athlete Alex Honnold to find out a bit more about his and Tommy Caldwell’s big day in Yosemite, his plans to rope solo the same feat for his segment in the Reel Rock Tour and a casual mention of how he free soloed the West Face of El Cap. As to how the idea for the triple link-up came about:
You do one route and you have a lot of time left in the day and you think, “Oh maybe we should have done two.” And eventually you do two with time left over and you say, “maybe we could do three…” and we did three and we didn’t have any time left over so we said, “we’re over it.”
More detail and pictures from Kelly Cordes on the big day here as well.
Bad Girls Club (5.14d) Repeated By Jon Cardwell
According to his 8a scorecard, Jon Cardwell has repeated Bad Girls Club, a 5.14d in Rifle, CO first done last summer by Matty Hong.






Access issues like this are big deals and can bode very poorly for our future as climbers if unfavorable decisions are reached. The letter drafted by the Access Fund regarding the Merced River management plan is well thought out and deserves a read from each of us. If you are in agreement sign it and send it off as your own. There is power in numbers, and this is a great way to stand up for what we love and believe in.
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As someone who works in government and day to day sees these canned letters come into Senator’s offices all the time, my two cents would be to take the ideas and do your best to write them into your own personal letter. Sure Senators record every letter that comes on, hearing the same thing over in over in one form lends less credence to an issue than hearing the same IDEAS in different wording. They will get the idea and it looks less like someone just took two seconds to stamp their name on the bottom of something and send it.
An issue like this needs good attention and people adding their own personal touch to bring light to a proper fix or voicing their opinions will go a very very long way.
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