Climbing Areas Archives: Clark Mountain

Making The Most Of A Bad Situation

Remember that one time that Chris Sharma was going to join Tommy Caldwell and crew for a season on Yosemite’s Dawn Wall but couldn’t because the government shut down and Yosemite was closed?  That was pretty cool uncool.  According to Climbing.com, instead of trying to stick it to the man and try to climb in the park illegally, Sharma has moved on to something else for now:

Kept out of Yosemite by the government shutdown, and thus unable to work on the Dawn Wall as planned, Chris Sharma traveled south for another mega-project: a futuristic route on Clark Mountain.

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3 Days With Ethan Pringle

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Ethan Pringle On Jumbo Love

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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10 Videos You Might Have Missed In The Momentum Video Magazine Archives

10 Videos You Might Have Missed In The Momentum Video Magazine Archives

10 videos from the archives of the Momentum Video Magazine you might have missed.

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Chris Sharma’s ‘Jumbo Love’ (5.15b)

Chris Sharma’s ‘Jumbo Love’ (5.15b)

Looking for more on Big Up’s latest movie Progression and Chris Sharma’s Jumbo Love?  Check out these posts! The dust has settled on Chris Sharma sending his project at Clark Mt., which gives us some time to reflect on important things like the name of the route and how hard it is. The route is […]

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Chris Sharma Sends Clark Mountain Super Project:  Jumbo Love (5.15b)

Chris Sharma Sends Clark Mountain Super Project: Jumbo Love (5.15b)

Looking for more on Big Up’s latest movie Progression and Chris Sharma’s Jumbo Love? Check out these posts! The Big Up Blog is reporting that Chris Sharma has climbed the fabled project at California’s Clark Mountain.  This was the route featured in King Lines that had sick aerial shots of Sharma taking massive whippers on […]

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How Does Chris Sharma’s Clark Mt. Project Feel?

How Does Chris Sharma’s Clark Mt. Project Feel?

Chris Sharma’s much hyped project at Clark Mountain has drawn the attention of two other American Rockstars in the form of Ethan Pringle and Dave Graham. They recently paid the line a visit, and Chad Greedy was there to capture it on film to find out exactly how it felt. You can now view the […]

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