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In a lengthy catch up-style blog entry, Ethan Pringle eventually gets around to mentioning that he did the FA of an old Joe Brooks project at Mt. Charleston, NV called Arrested Development. He describes the potentially 5.14d route as fun, heavily chipped and pretty hard:
I spent about 5 days on it this year, giving it 2-3 tries per day. I managed to send the route on my first try on my fifth day in May. While the route is manufactured, and heavily in spots, it is still one of the most fun to climb on routes I’ve ever done
The Vail Bouldering World Cup at the 2012 Teva Mountain Games took place over the weekend, and while it wasn’t the best weekend for the American contingent, it certainly didn’t lack for excitement. For the men it seemed as though Germany’s Jan Hojer was on his way to victory as he easily flashed the first [...]
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.
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