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Video of blind climber Erik Weihenmayer climbing The Naked Edge (5.11) in Colorado’s Eldorado Canyon to raise awareness for the Access Fund

Day In The Life Of Conrad Anker In Eldorado Canyon

Kevin Jorgeson has been in Colorado this week in search of overlooked highball boulder problems that need FAs. With the help of Andy Mann he found just such a boulder in Eldorado Canyon, and yesterday he did the FA of The Heist (V12).

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.

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

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 and [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]