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Isaac Caldiero has done the 3rd ascent (Jorgeson, Honnold) of the highball Ambrosia (V11) at Bishop, CA’s Buttermilks. Check out the excellent write-up on the Bishop Bouldering Blog for details including how Caldiero was able to do a more direct start to the line than the one taken by Jorgeson.

Desert Rat Productions has a nice preview clip from The Dirty Southwest of the likes of Daniel Woods, Isaac Caldiero and Jon Cardwell bouldering in Moe’s Valley, UT.

Last week was a pretty big week for the areas in the desert southwest as some of the best climbers in the world descended on the areas stretching from St. George, UT to Las Vegas, NV and beyond.
News & Notes from Alex Honnold, Way Lake Bouldering and several big upcoming events.
It has been a week or two of good videos over at the Momentum Video Magazine…if you are a premium subscriber: Going back to last week, there was some renewed buzz about James Litz’s unrepeated V14ish problem Warpath at the City Of Rocks, ID when Ty Landman and Jamie Emerson paid a visit. Ty put [...]
Click here to go back the main listing of RMNP Bouldering Videos Dave Graham climbing Secret Splendour (V12) & Both Sides of the Spectrum (V12) Seth Allred FA of Two Ton Tongue (V11) with Sean McColl and Ty Landman making fast repeats Jackie Chiddo doing Right El Jorge (V9) & Luke Parady climbing Skipper Roof [...]
These days I don’t get to spend as much time on MVM as I would like, however when I received an email from a reader alerting me to a possible ethical lapse in one of their latest videos I was sure to check it out. What I found was a video featuring Isaac Caldiero bouldering [...]
8a recently posted an interesting article on really hard (5.14d and up) routes that haven’t been repeated despite having been established years ago. Most of the routes seem unrepeated as much for their obscurity as for their difficulty, but it is definitely an interesting idea for discussion. I imagine a list for unrepeated hard boulders [...]
Ok. Horrible title. Forgive me.
Anyway, Jimmy Webb is about a week into his first trip to Font. Last week he managed that one day ascent of Kheops Assis (V14), and according to his 8a scorecard this week he managed a relatively quick repeat of Dave Graham’s The Island a once V15 but now maybe V14 at Coquibus Rumont. This latest ascent puts him at 99 problems V10 or harder in the past 12 months which is notable for being 99 more V10s or harder than I’ve done in my entire life1.
Ben Spannuth, who recently started a blog at LT11, grabbed a rare repeat Golden Direct at the Cathedral in Southern Utah according to his 8a scorecard. Golden Direct was first done in 2008 by Joe Kinder at a suggested grade of 5.14d and was subsequently repeated by the likes of Chris Sharma and Jonathan Siegrist. Having climbed five other routes in the 5.14c/d range in the past 6 months, Spannuth felt Golden Direct warranted a grade of 5.14c.
1 CommentAlex Johnson gave the highballs in Bishop a break to check out the bouldering in Red Rock, Nevada where she repeated the V12 highball Lethal Design according to her 8a scorecard:
great support crew and tons of pads! long and crimpy. worked out all the moves quick and sent first burn.
Since the start of 2012 she has done some eight V10′s or harder across Yosemite, Bishop and Red Rock.
Update: Climbing.com caught up with Johnson to discuss the ascent
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