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The Momentum Video Magazine has posted a clip from Best Of The West of Chris Sharma repeating Fred Nicole’s Hueco Tanks testpiece Esperanza (V14). Beyond the climbing being impressive to watch, the clip sparked a couple of questions in my mind.

A few weeks back, Skyler Weeks opened a new dyno at Clear Creek Canyon, CO called Zion.  You might be asking yourself, who is Skyler Weeks and why would I care about some dyno in CCC?  It turns out that Skyler Weeks is the world record holder for dyno-ing, so when it took him 76 [...]

The high quality climbing site Momentum Video Magazine is dropping it’s paid subscription service and offering all of its content for free beginning in September 2008.

I think I just blew my mind. Or rather, Mike Call blew my mind. I haven’t had a chance to check out the entire new site, but the Momentum Video Magazine has had a make over and it looks pretty nice. A quick glance raises the question of whether or not people [...]

Here are a few interesting stories to check out

Splitterchoss has a couple of cool tidbits on climbing at Rifle.

First is a post about a feature story done about climbing at Rifle Mountain Park in the Glenwood Post Independent.
Second is news about a new guidebook for Western Colorado climbing that will feature updated Rifle information among [...]

As usual, I go out of town and a ton of things happen:

Last week Ty Landman visited Squamish and did what he normally does, which is climb hard problems. He did 1 V13 and a couple of V12’s including one flash. Throw in a handful of V10’s and V11’s and I think most [...]

Here are some tidbits and things to check out:

Dave Graham recently added another 5.14d to his impressive list of sends when he sent Ali-Hulk at Rodellar, Spain.

Infamous Ali-hulk Cave

Andy Raether recently repeated Tommy Caldwell’s route Grand Old Opry at the Monsatery outside of Drake, CO. Back in 1998 Tommy graded it .14a while Andy [...]

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 [...]

Back from rock climbing in Iowa of all places…

Joe Kinder and Jon Cardwell both repeated Andy Raether’s route Kuru 5.14c at Rifle, CO. Joe commented that the route is 45% manufactured which sort of gives you the impression that he says this as a negative against the route. Of course 8a overreacts to [...]