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 able to [...]
Problems Archives: Mandala (V12)
Lisa Rands Mandala Video
Lisa Rands doing the first female ascent of Sharma’s The Mandala (V12) at the Buttermilks. More videos at TNF site
News & Notes – 2/21/08
Matt Birch recently repeated The Mandala Sit Start (V14) at the Buttermilks outside of Bishop, CA. By my count this is the problem’s 7th ascent. Wade David has photos posted from both qualifying and finals of the Adult ABS Nationals comp. That was a pretty sick lense he was rocking on Saturday night! Dave Graham [...]
Hard, Unrepeated American Boulders
I thought it would be interesting to compile a list of hard (V14 and up) boulder problems that have not been repeated in North America. Thanks to everyone for help in compiling these problems (Most of these grades are pure speculation from outside observers): Nuclear War – V14 – Matt Bosley – Harriman State Park, [...]
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- Andre Di Felice, Anthony Chertudi, Bernd Zangerl, Brian Antheunisse, Brian Hedrick, Brion Voges, Carlo Traversi, Chris Sharma, Chris Webb Parsons, Cory French, Dan Beall, Daniel Woods, Dave Graham, Ethan Pringle, Gregor Peirce, Guillaume Glairon-Mondet, Isaac Caldiero, James Kassay, James Litz, Jason Kehl, Jesse Warren, Johnny Goicoechea, Jon Cardwell, Jorg Verhoeven, Kevin Jorgeson, Luke Parady, Matt Bosley, Matt Hong, Matt Wilder, Max Zolotukhin, Nalle Hukkataival, Nick Duttle, Paul Robinson, Phil Schaal, Sam Davis, Sam Edwards, Sean McColl, Shawn Diamond, Simon Parton, Tim Clifford, Tony Lamiche, Ty Landman, Yves Gravelle
News & Notes – Mass Update
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 so some of [...]
News & Notes – Bouldering Edition
A summary of recent bouldering activity including more repeats of Trice in Boulder, Bishop bouldering, hard first ascents in Idaho and scary highball first ascents in Hueco Tanks. Climber’s featured include Daniel Woods, Sean McColl, Matt Fultz, Keivn Jorgeson and others.
More News & Notes – 7/30/2007
I really dropped the ball this morning when I failed to mention a few more tidbits to check out: An updated version of the already phenomenal guidebook to sport climbing at the Red River Gorge is coming out September 28, 2007: The Red River Gorge in eastern Kentucky is one of the best rock-climbing areas [...]
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