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It lives…for now.  Footage of Phil Schaal’s 5th ascent of Jade (V15) is up at MVM.

One of America’s hardest boulders gets a 5th ascent. Updated.

Two of the world’s best doing their thing in the alpine areas of Colorado

Jade (V15) sees a 4th ascent. UPDATED

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 [...]

As usual, I go away from a computer for a weekend and the sendtrain begins…

The big news is that Paul Robinson has made the 3rd ascent of Jade (V15 for now) in RMNP. The day after the Jade send, Paul did the second ascent of Chris Schulte’s new V13 Child Stars SDS at [...]

Here is an excerpt from a nice write-up Ty did for moonclimbing.com about his recent repeat of Jade (V15):
I chalked my hands and arranged my hands on the start holds. I pulled on and entered a zone that I rarely visit. It felt as though I was almost under sea floating towards the surface. I executed the [...]

I have returned safely from Las Vegas with both my marriage and my finances still intact so it was a successful trip. While I sort things out, be sure to check out this video of Daniel Woods doing the first ascent of Jade (V15).

I for one am psyched that they decided to show [...]

Finally back with it…somewhat…

Of course the big news while I was gone was Daniel Woods fulfilling another portion of my earlier predictions when he did the first ascent of the Green 45 Project at RMNP. He has called the problem Jade and suggested the grade of V15. Several cameras were rolling and you [...]