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Sandstone Violence

Sandstone Violence

Posted December 1, 2008 at 10:35 am · Comments { 12 } ·

Over the past month, as Fall conditions have finally arrived here in Wisconsin, I have been slowly working my way through some of the harder problems at Governor Dodge in an attempt to get some fitness back.  The end goal has been to repeat the classic problem Sandstone Violence (V8).  I have been wanting to […]

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Alex Puccio Does FFA Of A Maze Of Death (V12)

Alex Puccio Does FFA Of A Maze Of Death (V12)

Posted December 1, 2008 at 6:28 am · Comments { 2 } · Photo: Wills Young

Alex Puccio does the FFA of another V12.

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Joe Kinder Adds A New 5.14c To The Red River Gorge

Joe Kinder Adds A New 5.14c To The Red River Gorge

Posted November 25, 2008 at 6:51 am · Comments { 11 } · Photo: Joe Kinder/Spencer Victory

Joe Kinder has opened a new 5.14c called Southern Smoke at Kentucky’s Red River Gorge.

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Kevin Jorgeson Decks From And Then Sends Gaia (E8), Solos Meshuga (E9)

Kevin Jorgeson Decks From And Then Sends Gaia (E8), Solos Meshuga (E9)

Posted November 20, 2008 at 4:03 pm · Comments { 1 } · Photo: MVM/Kevin Jorgeson

An interesting bit of news was just posted over at MomentumVM.  Kevin Jorgeson, who has been climbing on the Gritstone of England for the past several weeks, was out climbing recently at the Black Rocks area in Derbyshire.  Black Rocks is home to two very famous grit routes in Gaia (E8 6b) and Meshuga (E9 […]

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Adam Ondra Repeats (World’s First?) 5.15

Adam Ondra Repeats (World’s First?) 5.15

Posted November 20, 2008 at 7:13 am · Comments { 8 } · Photo: Vojtech Vrzba

Adam Ondra has repeated Alex Huber’s 1996 testpiece Open Air at Austria’s Schleier Wasserfall, suggesting a grade of 5.15a for the route.

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Theater Of The Absurd

Theater Of The Absurd

Posted November 17, 2008 at 1:16 am · Comments { 13 } ·

My Dad often asks me why I don’t just use a ladder to get to the top of a boulder when I tell him about our various bouldering excursions.  That’s a valid question I suppose, but what he doesn’t understand is all the great aspects of climbing that go into a day at the boulders.  […]

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Video: Paul Robinson Sending Direction (V13)

Video: Paul Robinson Sending Direction (V13)

Posted November 14, 2008 at 7:45 am · Comments { 2 } ·

Here’s another video from Paul Robinson.  This time it is footage from his send of Direction (V13) at the Buttermilks outside of Bishop, CA.  You can see video of Paul sending A Maze Of Death here. [media id=2 width=540 height=360]

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