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.
Golden Direct (5.14d) Repeated By Jonathan Siegrist
Jonathan Siegrist does the likely 3rd ascent of a hard Joe Kinder testpiece in southern Utah
News & Notes – 11/03/2010
News & Notes from Rifle, the Red River Gorge, Switzerland, the Petzl Roc Trip and more…

New Videos From Utah Added To DPM HDTV
Deadpoint Magazine has added video of Alex Puccio, Daniel Woods, Paul Robinson and Jon Cardwell bouldering in Moe’s Valley as well as footage of Joe Kinder on his new 5.14d The Re-Up at the Cathedral to their DPM HDTV section.
Joe Kinder Opens New 5.14d In Utah
Well, that didn’t take long. Yesterday I mentioned that Joe Kinder was working on a link up in Southern Utah that could be one of the harder routes in America. Sure enough, later in the day yesterday he pulled out the send to create The Re-Up (5.14d). The Re-Up is actually a link up of [...]
Climbing Video: Joe Kinder On Unforgivable (5.14)
Footage of Joe Kinder climbing on Unforgivable, his new 5.14b/c at the Cathedral, UT
News & Notes – 5/8/2008
Not much Earth shattering news going down lately but here are a few things to check out from the past few weeks: Joe Kinder prepared nicely for his 2 month trip to Spain with his recent FA of Golden Direct (5.14d) at the Cathedral in Utah. You can read more about it here, here and [...]
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UBC Pro Tour Heading To The Northwest
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Oz
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“You think it will be cool till it isn’t fun anymore”
May 23, 2012
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Bad Girls Club (5.14d) Repeated By Jon Cardwell
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Regular Dude Climbs Just Do It (5.14c)
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Ethan Pringle On Jumbo Love
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News & Notes
Oz
This incredible photo essay by Keith Ladzinski from his trip to Australia last year with Dave Graham, Nalle Hukkataival and Ian Dory would make a great coffee table book don’t you think? (h/t Josh on twitter for the link).
“You think it will be cool till it isn’t fun anymore”
The North Face catches up with their athlete Alex Honnold to find out a bit more about his and Tommy Caldwell’s big day in Yosemite, his plans to rope solo the same feat for his segment in the Reel Rock Tour and a casual mention of how he free soloed the West Face of El Cap. As to how the idea for the triple link-up came about:
You do one route and you have a lot of time left in the day and you think, “Oh maybe we should have done two.” And eventually you do two with time left over and you say, “maybe we could do three…” and we did three and we didn’t have any time left over so we said, “we’re over it.”
More detail and pictures from Kelly Cordes on the big day here as well.
Bad Girls Club (5.14d) Repeated By Jon Cardwell
According to his 8a scorecard, Jon Cardwell has repeated Bad Girls Club, a 5.14d in Rifle, CO first done last summer by Matty Hong.





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