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Merrick Ales has an excellent gallery of photos from the 2010 Hueco Rock Rodeo up on his website that includes plenty of shots of comp winners Daniel Woods and Alex Puccio.  There’s also a short video from the comp up at DPM.

Sandstone and Bourbon…

Pictures and a few thoughts after attending the annual competition at my local gym for the 10th time

A few photos from Hueco Tanks and the Red River Gorge

It only took me 10 years, but I finally climbed at Hueco Tanks

A few photo links to inspire your weekend:  bouldering at Castle Rock, ID, sport climbing in Kalymnos, Greece and any post from the El Cap Report.

The weather this Summer in Wisconsin has been a climber’s dream.  Temps have rarely gotten higher than 80 and many perfect sunny days in the 70’s have been there for the taking which is a far cry from normal.  Of course, I haven’t been able to take much advantage of these conditions due to various [...]

I originally came up with the idea of going to Tuolumne Meadows in Yosemite National Park for a week of climbing long trad routes earlier this year during one of my frequent injury breaks from hard climbing. What I forgot to take into account was that Mrs. Narc and I hadn’t really climbed that many long trad routes so we weren’t even sure how much we even liked that kind of climbing in the first place.

Yesterday I came to a realization that the past 3 years have all followed the same pattern as far as my climbing is concerned.  Each of the 3 years began with a roughly 6 month break from climbing due to various injuries.  Back in 2007 I was struggling with tendinitis in my elbow, 2008 began [...]