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Don’t Fall Mode

12. March 2008

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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 [...]

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News & Notes - 11/7/07

7. November 2007

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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 [...]

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3rd Ascent of Fifty Words For Pump (5.14c)

31. October 2007

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3 weeks ago, Fifty Words for Pump was a project at the Red River Gorge that nobody had been able to do over the course of 10 years. 3 weeks later it now has 3 ascents thanks to Mike Doyle’s recent repeat. Apparently the work put in by the pros during the recent [...]

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2 5.14c’s Repeated at the RRG

22. October 2007

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While 2 5.14c’s being climbed in one weekend at the Red River Gorge in KY is definitely a first, this is a sign of things to come this fall at the Red. First it was Sean McColl repeating Mike Doyle’s route Lucifer (5.14c) at Purgatory.  Fresh off flashing a 5.14b, it only took Sean 4 tries [...]

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Best Pitch in the World?

7. June 2007

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I’ve never given it much thought, but Mike Doyle (and many others) contend that the route Serpentine (5.13b) at the Grampians in Australia might just have the best pitch of climbing in the world on it’s second pitch. Read the entire entry for a blow by blow account of his experience. Or skip to the [...]

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News & Notes

26. March 2007

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Here are a few news & notes from the past week: As I mentioned earlier, Paul Robinson had a pretty good day at the Buttermilks when he sent 2 v14’s in one day. Dave Graham redpointed Ali Baba (.14c) and now has his eyes set on the .14d linkup of Ali Baba and Hulk. Mike Doyle redpointed [...]

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News & Notes

5. March 2007

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As I noted in my review of the “climbing” movie Specimen, the movie is not that great. Turns out Rock & Ice was even less generous in their latest issue. They give the movie 1.5 Stars out of a possible 5 The aforementioned new issue of Rock & Ice has a brief write-up about [...]

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