Climbing Areas Archives: Eldorado Canyon

Matt Segal Sends New Trad Line “Smart Went Crazy” In Eldo

Posted March 12, 2009 at 5:40 am · Comments { 4 } · Photo: John Dickey

Matt Segal, who is probably most well known these days for his first free ascent of a route in Eldorado Canyon, CO’s Kloof Alcove called Iron Monkey (5.14), recently returned to the Kloof Alcove to add another heady trad route.

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Matt Segal, Matt Wilder

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Eldorado Canyon

Modump Returns

Posted January 19, 2009 at 8:03 am · Comments { 6 } ·

Online climbing movie site Modump.com has returned with a new update…

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Thomas Betterton

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Eldorado Canyon

News & Notes – 05/13/2008

Posted May 13, 2008 at 8:18 am · Comments { 12 } ·

I have another interesting topic for discussion tomorrow, but in the meantime here are a few links for your perusal: If you enjoy salivating over the posts at the Betabase blog, you should consider checking out the blog of Justin Alarcon. In this post, he spends the day bouldering in The Valley with Beth Rodden [...]

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Adam Ondra, Beth Rodden, Carlo Traversi, Daniel Woods, Dave Graham, David Breashears, Emily Harrington, Justin Alarcon, Paul Robinson, Steve Mammen, Tommy Caldwell

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Clear Creek Canyon, Eldorado Canyon, Magic Wood, Mount Everest, RMNP, Switzerland, Val Masino

News & Notes – 2/21/08

Posted February 21, 2008 at 8:10 am · Comments { 6 } ·

Matt Birch recently repeated The Mandala Sit Start (V14) at the Buttermilks outside of Bishop, CA. By my count this is the problem’s 7th ascent. Wade David has photos posted from both qualifying and finals of the Adult ABS Nationals comp. That was a pretty sick lense he was rocking on Saturday night! Dave Graham [...]

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Dave Graham, Jody Hansen, Matt Birch, Paul Robinson

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Buttermilks, Eldorado Canyon, Horseshoe Canyon Ranch, Hueco Tanks, Southern Illinois

Hard, Unrepeated American Boulders

Posted February 4, 2008 at 7:22 am · Comments { 142 } ·

I thought it would be interesting to compile a list of hard (V14 and up) boulder problems that have not been repeated in North America. Thanks to everyone for help in compiling these problems (Most of these grades are pure speculation from outside observers): Nuclear War – V14 – Matt Bosley – Harriman State Park, [...]

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News & Notes – 5/14/2007

Posted May 14, 2007 at 11:52 am · Comments { 0 } ·

Big news of last week was Daniel Woods making the 2nd ascent of Suspension of Disbelief (V13 or V14) at Eldorado Canyon, CO. Dave Graham called it V13 but Daniel felt it was harder than any V14 he had done so he proposed upgrading it to V14. Ethan Pringle did the first ascent of Jumbo [...]

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Daniel Woods, Ethan Pringle

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Clark Mountain, Eldorado Canyon

News & Notes – 5/7/2007

Posted May 7, 2007 at 12:54 pm · Comments { 0 } ·

Andreas Bindhammer has made the 4th ascent of La Rambla Original (5.15a) at Siurana, Spain. Ethan Pringle and Issac Caldiero recently repeated Ben Moon’s V13 testpiece in Little Cottonwood Canyon, UT called Eclipse. You may now view video of Ethan doing the 2nd ascent. The footage of the FA is featured in the “Utah Update” [...]

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