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To conclude this series of posts, let me recount one of my more unpleasant experiences during my trip to Bishop. One of the more well known moderate lines at the Happy Boulders is Hulk. The Dr. Topo guide gave it V6, but I have seen it other places as low as V4. Why is this important? Because I got totally shutdown, that’s why.

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 [...]

Super strong Canadian Sean McColl has repeated one of the hardest problems in Bishop, Goldfish Trombone (V14).  He has also done 11 other problems graded V10 or harder in the past two weeks as well.  You can see video of Sam Edwards on the FA of Goldfish Trombone here.

Check out this video of Australian Sam Edwards establishing one of the hardest problems in Bishop, Goldfish Trombone at the Happy Boulders. Apparently some holds have broken and subsequent repeats by the likes of Sharma, Pringle and Woods have led the grade to rise to V14.

Here is the second set of pictures from the Happy Boulders:

Weapons of Mass Distraction

Serengeti

Atari

almost ate it hard…

Here is the first set of pictures from the Happy Boulders:

Hulk

I suck…

Heavenly Path (best V1 ever)

Big Chicken