Areas Horse Pens 40 | ClimbingNarc.com

News & Notes – 3/16/2010

16. Mar, 2010 0 Comments

News & Notes from Alex Honnold, Natasha Barnes, GP Salvo, Dean Potter, Yvon Chouinard and more…

Access, Bouldering, Climbing News, Competitions, News & Notes, Sport Climbing

Kentucky Champagne

05. Mar, 2010 7 Comments

Sandstone and Bourbon…

From The Narc, Pictures

Road Trips

Review: Bouldering Guide To Horse Pens 40 (HP40), Moss Rock & Palisades Park

03. Feb, 2010 10 Comments

A review of the upcoming guidebook to bouldering at Alabama’s Horse Pens 40 (HP40), Moss Rock Preserve & Palisades Park.

Reviews

News & Notes – 12/29/2009

29. Dec, 2009 10 Comments

News & Notes from Jimmy Webb, Charlie Barrett, Carrie Cooper, Fred Nicole and more…

Bouldering, Climbing News, Competitions, Ice Climbing, News & Notes, Videos

Our trip to HP40 in Alabama wasn’t a complete wash, but as far as climbing was concerned it sure felt like it. Before we left I didn’t feel all that prepared, and it showed once we started climbing on the beautiful first day of 2009. Last week I posted a short list of problems I wanted to send, but a combination of lack of enthusiam, lack of strength and lack of skin combined to prevent me from sending any of the problems

Bouldering, Pictures

Road Trips

HP40 For The New Year

30. Dec, 2008 15 Comments

Tomorrow we will heading to Steele, AL to ring in the New Year at HP40. I’m nursing a tweaked finger on my right hand and Mrs. Narc is still recovering from her unfortunate ankle injury so it will be another low key HP40 trip. This will be our third consecutive trip there where one or [...]

Bouldering

2008 Triple Crown Bouldering Series: HP40 Results

03. Nov, 2008 1 Comment

Results from the 2008 Triple Crown Bouldering event at Horse Pens 40, AL.

Bouldering, Climbing News, Triple Crown Bouldering

Dr. Topo Big In Japan Double Feature DVD Review

01. May, 2008 6 Comments

Dr. Topo has been around for a long time now providing quality mini-guidebooks and videos free of charge. It was just a matter of time, but they recently released their first DVD: The Big In Japan Double Feature.
People that have been following Dr. Topo for a long time will recognize much of the [...]

Reviews, Videos

Dr. Topo

Ancient History: Horse Pens 40 Pt. 2

25. Apr, 2008 0 Comments

Horse Pens 40, AL – October, 2003
Hammerhead V5

The Drip VFun

My Tips = Owned

Bouldering, Pictures

Road Trips

Older Entries

2010 Hueco Rock Rodeo Photo Gallery

Merrick Ales has an excellent gallery of photos from the 2010 Hueco Rock Rodeo up on his website that includes plenty of shots of comp winners Daniel Woods and Alex Puccio. There’s also a short video from the comp up at DPM.

Interviewed By SplitterChoss.com

In the event that you can’t get your full ClimbingNarc fix from this site alone I did an interview with SplitterChoss.com that you can check out here.

Daniel Woods, Paul Robinson, Alex Johnson Sign With Nicros

Hold maker Nicros has signed Daniel Woods, Paul Robinson and Alex Johnson to their team to help shape holds and develop products for the 2011 Nicros line-up. Word on the street is that Daniel and Paul will be visiting Minnesota soon to do work both in the shop and out on the boulders. Stay tuned.

Rock & Ice Interviews Top Climbing Photographers

Andrew Bisharat at Rock & Ice interviewed several well known climbing photographers for a recent magazine piece and he posted the various answers to 6 of his questions on R&I’s website.