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Lisa Rands Mandala Video

Lisa Rands doing the first female ascent of Sharma’s The Mandala (V12) at the Buttermilks. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fc5JuQIcJOE] More videos at TNF site

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Big Up to Arkansas – Updated

Big Up to Arkansas – Updated

As I reported last week, Dave Graham has returned to Arkansas after tearing the place up over the New Year. Big Up is there to capture everything on film for us (Dosage 5 soon???) as Dave and his crew of Jason Kehl, Ty Landman, Jon Cardwell and Chad Greedy explore all the untapped sandstone around […]

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News & Notes – 2/21/08

News & Notes – 2/21/08

Matt Birch recently repeated The Mandala Sit Start (V14) at the Buttermilks outside of Bishop, CA. By my count this is the problem’s 7th ascent. Wade David has photos posted from both qualifying and finals of the Adult ABS Nationals comp. That was a pretty sick lense he was rocking on Saturday night! Dave Graham […]

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2008 ABS 9 Nationals Results

2008 ABS 9 Nationals Results

Results of the 2008 ABS 9 Adult & Youth National Championships held on Februrary 15-17, 2008 in Boulder, CO

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Epic "Free Solo" in Squamish

Check out this video of rigging expert Matt Maddaloni attempting to “free solo” Young Blood (5.13a) on the Cacodaemon boulder in Squamish, BC. [youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=5OmbEkh24r0] Video from The Range Life Here is what Matt had to say: We set up a trapeez net out in space below the route using a 30 ft circular high strength […]

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Hard, Unrepeated American Boulders

I thought it would be interesting to compile a list of hard (V14 and up) boulder problems that have not been repeated in North America. Thanks to everyone for help in compiling these problems (Most of these grades are pure speculation from outside observers): Nuclear War – V14 – Matt Bosley – Harriman State Park, […]

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News & Notes – 1/31/08

News & Notes – 1/31/08

Recent climbing news including: Sharma & Harrington are national champions, Daniel Woods repeating V14 in a day, Hayden Miller climbing at Ute pass and news from Bernd Zangerl.

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