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Via TheLowDown comes belated news of a new hard 5.14 boulder problem/sport route by Fred Nicole in St. Gallen, Switzerland called L’isola che non c’è.  You can read more about his March 2009 ascent at Up-Climbing.

Part 2 Of Jamie Emerson’s Switzerland Trip

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 [...]

Not much Earth shattering news going down lately but here are a few things to check out from the past few weeks:

Joe Kinder prepared nicely for his 2 month trip to Spain with his recent FA of Golden Direct (5.14d) at the Cathedral in Utah.  You can read more about it here, here and here.  [...]

A bit of followup on last week’s Spring Break edition of News & Notes. Here are a few more links for you to check out:

Many of you are no doubt following Jamie Emerson’s updates from Europe on his trip with Ryan Olson and Angie Payne. However, somewhat lost in the double digit shuffle [...]

Apparently climbing 3 hard 5.14s in one day wasn’t enough for young Adam Ondra.  Here is some video that Jamie Emerson captured of the young Czech climbing prodigy repeating Fred Nicole’s classic boulder Dreamtime (V14) in Cresciano, Switzerland.

Just an update on Beth Rodden’s new 5.14 trad route Meltdown. Big Up Productions was there filming her work on the route for the upcoming Dosage 5. Big Up shares their first hand takes on what went down including nuggets like, “After about 10 sessions of working it on top-rope Tommy was never [...]

Climbing.com has added two more pro climbers to their growing list of bloggers: Daniel Woods and Angie Payne.
Angie’s first blog is about her trip to the South with Jamie Emerson. Here she is pulling down on a problem high on my wishlist: Slider (V9) at HP40.

Photo: B3bouldering
Check out Daniel’s first update which [...]

Thanks to James for compiling this massive list of updates. In this update you will find a lot of news on Dai Koyamada’s exploints in the Frankenjura. Also news from Daniel Woods, Jon Cardwell, Chris Sharma, Dave Graham, Lisa Rands and Paxti Usobiaga among others. This has taken me longer than anticipated [...]