Archive | August, 2007

Freaks of the Industry

Posted August 29, 2007 at 5:46 am · Comments { 2 } ·

Paul Robinson added Freaks of the Industry (V13) to his impressive ticklist yesterday. That means that in the past 8 days he has done 1 V15, 3 V13s, 1 V12, 1 V11 and 1 V10. He even suggest that Freaks might be V12 which is quite a departure from its original V14 rating. Click here […]

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Devil’s Lake Trad

Devil’s Lake Trad

Posted August 28, 2007 at 10:54 am · Comments { 0 } ·

Back in May, our friend Chris was nice enough to take us on a trad climbing adventure at Devil’s Lake State Park.  Having never done any trad climbing, it was something I had been meaning to learn more about for several years but for whatever reason just hadn’t gotten around to it.  Up to this […]

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News & Notes – 08/27/2007

News & Notes – 08/27/2007

Posted August 27, 2007 at 6:15 am · Comments { 7 } ·

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 Mt. […]

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Before They Were Stars

Before They Were Stars

Posted August 23, 2007 at 12:39 pm · Comments { 0 } ·

The September 2007 issue of Outside Magazine features a spread on Chris Sharma’s whirlwind year that will be featured in the upcoming film King Lines. This whirlwind year that started with his ascent of the Es Pontas project has taken Sharma from Greece to Spain to Venezuela to California to France and finally back to […]

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Pictures Page

Pictures Page

Posted August 23, 2007 at 11:36 am · Comments { 0 } ·

I started adding a few pictures to the Pictures Page.  Currently there are pictures from my trip to Colorado and Wyoming back in 2001.  They were taken with my sister’s POS point and shoot film camera so don’t expect any groundbreaking photography.  The pictures in Colorado were taken at Lumpy Ridge, Camp Dick and RMNP.  […]

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Midweek News – 08/22/07

Posted August 22, 2007 at 12:17 pm · Comments { 3 } ·

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 […]

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And Then There Were None?

And Then There Were None?

Posted August 22, 2007 at 5:35 am · Comments { 0 } ·

Sean McColl has made the 2nd ascent of Daniel Woods’s Aslan (V14) in RMNP. This brings the number of unrepeated problems in the Park to 0…for now. The 23 move problem is not typical of the other short power problems that the Park is known for. Check out this old post for more info on […]

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