Famous Problems: Ode to the Modern Man (V14), Clear Blue Skies (V12), No More Greener Grass (V12) and Dali (V9) – coincidentally all these problems are on the same boulder!
one issue with the rmnp versus evans vote is that, even assuming that each voter has been to both places, it is likely that the voter is using only area A and maybe also B as the basis for their comparison.
while it is also true that RMNP has many lifetimes of classic, huge, bullet stone to be established, evans already has so many four and five star problems along its flanks that it makes the hard lines of the park seem retarded at best.
still, to visit all of these problems you need to perform a number of very burly hikes in disparate directions, so visiting even a couple of the different areas in the same day is nearly impossible if one wants enough energy to send.
so, i guess the park would still win based on concentration…. but holyshit i’ve never seen anything at the park that can compare to some of the lines already discovered and sent at evans.
even i have not seen the majority of the more obscure areas at evans, which hold camp 4 esque lines.
it’ll be interesting to see if bouldering in america ever takes on the adventure aspect of alpine trad where multi-day excursions are mandatory, with long hikes and basecamp gear, just to begin tapping in to the good stuff and get out of the talus holes that seem pervasive, currently.
or, perhaps we will just soon see many many miles of new roads that will make it all roadside.
You are correct as usual. I suspect that most people outside the frontrange don’t really know about Mt. Evans as it has done a pretty good job of flying under the radar compared to RMNP. Most of this probably has to do with the fact that moderates don’t really make the news the same way as double digit sendtrains do.
Perhaps with a road already going directly over Mt. Evans most are just holding out hope that a road through the talus can’t be far behind.
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.”
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Photo: Trina Ortega/Climbing
Photo: Narc
one issue with the rmnp versus evans vote is that, even assuming that each voter has been to both places, it is likely that the voter is using only area A and maybe also B as the basis for their comparison.
while it is also true that RMNP has many lifetimes of classic, huge, bullet stone to be established, evans already has so many four and five star problems along its flanks that it makes the hard lines of the park seem retarded at best.
still, to visit all of these problems you need to perform a number of very burly hikes in disparate directions, so visiting even a couple of the different areas in the same day is nearly impossible if one wants enough energy to send.
so, i guess the park would still win based on concentration…. but holyshit i’ve never seen anything at the park that can compare to some of the lines already discovered and sent at evans.
even i have not seen the majority of the more obscure areas at evans, which hold camp 4 esque lines.
it’ll be interesting to see if bouldering in america ever takes on the adventure aspect of alpine trad where multi-day excursions are mandatory, with long hikes and basecamp gear, just to begin tapping in to the good stuff and get out of the talus holes that seem pervasive, currently.
or, perhaps we will just soon see many many miles of new roads that will make it all roadside.
You are correct as usual. I suspect that most people outside the frontrange don’t really know about Mt. Evans as it has done a pretty good job of flying under the radar compared to RMNP. Most of this probably has to do with the fact that moderates don’t really make the news the same way as double digit sendtrains do.
Perhaps with a road already going directly over Mt. Evans most are just holding out hope that a road through the talus can’t be far behind.