News & Notes from Ethan Pringle, Nina Caprez, Carlo Traversi, Jimmy Webb, potential problems with the GriGri 2 and much more…
News & Notes – 6/1/2011
News & Notes Bonus Edition – 4/29/2011
A few bonus News & Notes from Emily Harrington, Dorothea Karalus, Enzo Oddo and more…
News & Notes – 4/27/2011
A few News & Notes from Nik Berry, Daniel Woods, Adam Ondra, the Petzl Roc Trip China, a new iPhone app guidebook for Joshua Tree and more
News & Notes – 4/12/2011
News & Notes from Nina Caprez, Cedric Lachat, Kevin Jorgeson, Fred Nicole and much more…
News & Notes – 3/22/2011
News & Notes from Adam Ondra, Daniel Woods and much more…
News & Notes – 2/23/2011
A smorgasbord of News & Notes to get you through your Wednesday
News & Notes – 1/25/2011
Has it really been almost 2 months since we last did this??? Hopefully this massive round-up of News & Notes will get me back in your good graces…
- Climbing Bidness | A Million Ancient Bees: [...] What did you do this weekend? If you were To...
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Narc: There's nothing regular about James Litz...
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JMB: I suspect James Litz is the all-time leader in FRJ...
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colin: FRJA = first real job ascent. well done....
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Derek Jf: First trip to rumney nh, first time sport climbing...
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Andrew: awesome video!...
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PocketPumper: I was psyched to hear some actual climbing tips st...
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2012 Dominion River Rock Women’s Climbing Highlights
May 22, 2012
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Regular Dude Climbs Just Do It (5.14c)
May 22, 2012
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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
May 21, 2012
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Ethan Pringle On Jumbo Love
May 18, 2012
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Campus Training With Flannery Shay-Nemirow
May 18, 2012
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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