On the heels of the recent footage of Kevin Jorgeson bouldering The Fly comes the footage of Kevin’s ropeless ascent of Feeding Frenzy (5.13d) also at Rumney.
Continue reading...3. June 2008
Back in April, Kevin Jorgeson and Paul Robinson made quick repeats of Dave Graham’s Rumney, NH testpiece The Fly (5.14d/V14). Kevin’s ascent was particularly noteworthy as he was the 2nd person after Jason Kehl to eschew a rope for the 20 and some odd foot tall route. Check out this video from Tim Kemple of Kevin’s [...]
Continue reading...11. April 2008
Joe Kinder is reporting on his blog that Kevin Jorgeson has made the 2nd ropeless ascent of Dave Graham’s The Fly (5.14d, V13/14?) in Rumney, NH. The first ropeless ascent was by Jason Kehl back in 2003. It sounds like video cameras were rolling for Kevin’s ascent so I guess we can look [...]
Continue reading...2. April 2008
A few general bits of climbing news along with several links to check out what people were up to over Spring Break: Early last month, Dean Potter completed a 40 foot roof project he called Zen Garden near Moab, UT. He described it as “the hardest roof crack that I know of”. Besides [...]
Continue reading...27. March 2008
Based on the high level of interest in the list of potential V14 and harder boulder problems in North America, I thought it would be a good idea to try and assemble a similar list of Routes. To illustrate a certain point, I will limit the list to routes proposed 5.14d-ish or harder. [...]
Continue reading...17. January 2008
A summary of recent bouldering activity including more repeats of Trice in Boulder, Bishop bouldering, hard first ascents in Idaho and scary highball first ascents in Hueco Tanks. Climber's featured include Daniel Woods, Sean McColl, Matt Fultz, Keivn Jorgeson and others.
Continue reading...10. January 2008
Two videos featuring Kevin Jorgeson and Kevin Daniels climbing Flight of the Bumblebee (V7) at the Buttermilks in California.
Continue reading...7. November 2007
I realize lately that I have been spending too much time blogging about myself and not enough time talking about all the action going down elsewhere so here goes nothing: During his recent work on Trice, Jamie Emerson made a slight deviation from the line of Trice and nabbed the 3rd ascent after Karn and Moon [...]
Continue reading...27. August 2007
As usual, I go away from a computer for a weekend and the sendtrain begins… The big news is that Paul Robinson has made the 3rd ascent of Jade (V15 for now) in RMNP. The day after the Jade send, Paul did the second ascent of Chris Schulte’s new V13 Child Stars SDS at [...]
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18. June 2008
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