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There’s so much happening these days in the world of climbing that even I’m having a hard time keeping up…

Not long after her 10-year-old daughter Brooke redpointed the climb, Robyn Erbesfield-Raboutou also repeated God’s Own Stone (5.14a) in the Red River Gorge. Rock & Ice caught up with the almost 49-year-old young Raboutou to learn more about her continued success and what it’s like sharing projects with her kids.

In an impressive display, Dylan Barks repeated Mike Doyle’s Lucifer (5.14c) at Purgatory in the Red River Gorge today. Barks looked strong and in control throughout his send burn, and not even a wasp sting on the finger at the 2nd to last bolt could keep him from clipping the chains.
Barks, who finished 2nd at last weekend’s SCS Nationals, had previously climbed another 5.14c at the Red when he did Southern Smoke last year.

DPM’s Mikey Williams is in perfect position to bring updates from the Red River Gorge seeing as he currently resides in the parking lot at Miguel’s. It’s from this convenient vantage point that he has posted updates on Enzo Oddo ticking the other 5.14d in the Red and 11-year-old Cameron Hörst repeating God’s Own Stone (5.14a).
5.14a at 10 years old? By two kids on the same day? Welcome to 2012.
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).
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.
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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