If you are bored of reading the blog of someone that never climbs (mine) you could try checking out Dave Graham’s latest blog. Or, if you don’t want to try to decipher his rambling style I will summarize below: He takes a moment to describe his recent first ascent of Los Barrachos del Mascun (5.14d) I have been [...]

Dave Graham Blog Updated

Couple of Links
Busy week for once, especially now that I am out of canned posts from 6 year old trips. Here are a few links: M7bouldering.com – New blog on the block – I have a feeling Nic will be making this a blog worth checking out Momentumvm.com – 4th edition is up! I love this site! [...]
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New Blog to Check Out
If you like to sweat high end climbing as much as I do, then you will be psyched to find out that Paul Robinson has his very own blog. To say that he climbs a lot would be an understatement. Definitely check it out.
8a Yearbook
I started writing this post about a month ago but got sidetracked. As a degenerate for climbing information I was obviously very excited to receive my 8a yearbooks about a month ago. However, since the first couple of days that I looked at it I haven’t even really considered reading it again. While there are [...]
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Two Updated Pro Blogs
Dave Graham has a new pro blog up at Climbing.com covering: His ascent of Esclatamasters (5.14d) which he describes as such: It was crazy to feel my body work properly for climbing. It’s like a car running properly after having a mechanic try to fix it for six months, yet never finding the problem, constantly [...]
TGIF
Leaving town for the weekend so here are some cool people/sites you can check out in the meantime: Ryan Olson has two pretty cool sites that are worth checking out on a regular basis. First is his personal blog that has a pretty cool update on a FA that he did last week at the [...]

To 8a Or Not To 8a?
I have one. So do plenty of other people. I get good natured shit from my friends for having one. I’m of course talking about the infamous 8a.nu scorecard. I truly don’t think I have one for the spray-factor although that is obviously a bi-product. Besides, if we’re being honest I don’t really have a [...]
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2012 Dominion River Rock Women’s Climbing Highlights
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Regular Dude Climbs Just Do It (5.14c)
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Climb Like Chris Sharma: His Tips, Part 1
May 21, 2012
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What Did You Do This Weekend?
May 21, 2012
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Two 5.14d FA’s By Pirmin Bertle
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Ethan Pringle On Jumbo Love
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Campus Training With Flannery Shay-Nemirow
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News & Notes
What Did You Do This Weekend?
Tommy Caldwell and Alex Honnold spent Saturday romping up big walls in Yosemite. The pair free climbed Freerider on El Cap (6:45 climbing), the South Face of Mt. Watkins (2:40 climbing) and the Regular Northwest Face on Half Dome (5 climbing) in just over 21 hours. More at Climbing.com. So…how was your weekend??
Ethan Pringle On Jumbo Love
Ethan Pringle is back at Mt. Clark, home to that one route first done by that one guy:
Projecting a route like this requires all of your attention, and having to devote all of your attention to a route like this can get really tiring really fast. At some point, you just want to get it over with. Of course, afterward you feel a mix of relief and loss. Relief that you’re done and the epic is over, and loss that this magnificent line doesn’t require your presence anymore. But for me, I think I’ll have to take a nice long break from serious route projects for a little while after this. Like Randy Levitt said, “It’s like a limestone El Cap.” Obviously, that’s a bit of an exaggeration, but it does sort of convey the amount of work required to complete a project of this caliber.
Pringle is no stranger to Jumbo Love, having tried it even before its FA back in 2008. You can see some footage of those attempts here.
When In Doubt Pack It Out
I don’t know about you, but I always try my best to climb close to an actual bathroom. In case you don’t, the Access Fund has a nice refresher on what to do when nature calls.





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