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Rocktoberfest 2010 & Updated Red River Gorge Guidebook

Posted September 30, 2010 at 6:52 am · Comments { 1 } ·

Rocktoberfest hits Kentucky’s Red River Gorge next weekend. What better time to put your new guidebook to use??

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More Details On 8th Annual Red River Gorge Rocktoberfest

Posted October 7, 2008 at 11:49 am · Comments { 1 } ·

Pre-Registration for the festivities at this weekend’s 8th Annual Rocktoberfest in the Red River Gorge of Kentucky is closing soon. The event promises to have plenty of music, food, schwag and climbing for everyone. Register soon to get in on one of the last of 200 schwag bags, or to guarantee your spot in one of [...]

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News & Notes – 10/1/2008

Posted October 1, 2008 at 7:40 am · Comments { 6 } · Photo: MoonClimbing

Rocktoberfest is coming soon to the Red River Gorge, Ty Landman repeats Sharma’s Practice Of The Wild, James Pearson climbs E12, the Colorado Bouldering guidebook controversy and much more!

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Bob Horan, James Pearson, Jamie Emerson, Kris Hampton, Ty Landman

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Magic Wood, Red River Gorge

News & Notes – 9/11/2008

Posted September 11, 2008 at 1:11 pm · Comments { 5 } · Photo: Jeff Silcox

News & Notes from Alex Honnold, Way Lake Bouldering and several big upcoming events.

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Alex Honnold, Alex Johnson, Isaac Caldiero, Paul Robinson

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Chironico, Magic Wood, Rumney, Way Lake, Yosemite

News & Notes – 5/14/2007

Posted May 14, 2007 at 11:52 am · Comments { 0 } ·

Big news of last week was Daniel Woods making the 2nd ascent of Suspension of Disbelief (V13 or V14) at Eldorado Canyon, CO. Dave Graham called it V13 but Daniel felt it was harder than any V14 he had done so he proposed upgrading it to V14. Ethan Pringle did the first ascent of Jumbo [...]

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Daniel Woods, Ethan Pringle

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Clark Mountain, Eldorado Canyon

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Oz

This incredible photo essay by Keith Ladzinski from his trip to Australia last year with Dave Graham, Nalle Hukkataival and Ian Dory would make a great coffee table book don’t you think? (h/t Josh on twitter for the link).

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“You think it will be cool till it isn’t fun anymore”

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.”

More detail and pictures from Kelly Cordes on the big day here as well.

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Bad Girls Club (5.14d) Repeated By Jon Cardwell

According to his 8a scorecard, Jon Cardwell has repeated Bad Girls Club, a 5.14d in Rifle, CO first done last summer by Matty Hong.