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A few News & Notes as I get caught up from nearly 2 weeks away from a computer

A painful lesson of what can happen highball bouldering, updated with video.

Dave Wetmore put together a short video of Max Zolotukhin and company doing the first repeat of Random Man (V11, FA James Litz 2001) at this year’s Hound Ears Triple Crown event.  Check out the rest of Dave’s blog for a lot of interesting stuff from the Rumney scene.  An update on Phil Schaal’s gnarly [...]

Results from the 2009 Triple Crown Bouldering Series stop at Hound Ears, NC. UPDATED with links to more pictures.

The International bouldering circuit returns to American soil today with the kick-off of the Bouldering World Cup at the Teva Mountain Games in Vail, CO.

Max Zolotukhin has done the 3rd ascent of Dave Graham’s The Book Of Bitter Aspects at Bradley, CT, registering it at V13 on his 8a spraycard.

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 [...]