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Another one bites the dust for Daniel Woods in Clear Creek Canyon
There’s so much happening these days in the world of climbing that even I’m having a hard time keeping up…

That’s the number of routes 5.11d or harder that Adam Ondra has logged on his 8a scorecard as of 4/26/2012. That total includes a staggering 358 routes 5.14a or harder with 70 of those coming onsight. As a point of comparison, Dave Graham has 190 5.14a or harder routes registered on his scorecard and he’s not exactly a slouch. All this of course before Ondra has even finished High School.

There’s been a lot of tongue twisting in the climbing news-osphere about Adam Ondra‘s recent FA of Joe-cita (5.14d) in Oliana, Spain. While he did climb that specific line on his first try, he had previously climbed a portion of the link-up while climbing other routes. Granted, he did either onsight or flash the harder parts, but rules are rules. He also came close to onsighting Duele la Realidad 2R (5.14d) but had to settle for a 2nd go send.
Get your bets in now for when 5.14d is going to go down first go…
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 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.
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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