Archive | January, 2008

Midnight Express

Posted January 22, 2008 at 1:05 am · Comments { 2 } ·

Dave Graham recently did the 3rd ascent of Ty Landman’s Midnight Express (V14) in Boulder Canyon. Ty indicated that he named the problem after a movie that he rather enjoyed so I thought I would check it out. The movie is a somewhat true story about an American man caught smuggling hashish out of Turkey […]

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News & Notes – Mass Update

News & Notes – Mass Update

Posted January 21, 2008 at 4:28 pm · Comments { 2 } ·

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 […]

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ABS Regionals

ABS Regionals

Posted January 21, 2008 at 5:05 am · Comments { 7 } ·

We are back from Cincinnati and the ABS Midwest Regionals competition. Overall the comp was a very good experience, and we had 4 kids qualify for Nationals at the Spot which was very exciting. The comp itself was very well run, and for the most part the problems looked really fun. It is looking like […]

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News & Notes – Bouldering Edition

News & Notes – Bouldering Edition

Posted January 17, 2008 at 3:20 pm · Comments { 4 } ·

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.

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Various Ailments Update

Posted January 17, 2008 at 1:56 am · Comments { 17 } ·

With the way things were progressing in the Fall, what with me doing more outdoor climbing than I had ever done, you would think that I would be well on my way to recovery for a great Spring season. However, that simply has not been the case. While my elbow no longer bothers me (which […]

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Updated Design

Updated Design

Posted January 16, 2008 at 11:27 pm · Comments { 3 } ·

If you are reading this via the RSS Feed and don’t visit the actual site on a regular basis, climbingnarc.com recently underwent a makeover.  There are a few new features including a list of some of the more popular posts located in the sidebar on the right.  Also, if you leave a comment you now […]

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ABS Midwest Regionals

ABS Midwest Regionals

Posted January 16, 2008 at 1:47 pm · Comments { 4 } ·

We are heading down to Climb Time Blue Ash in Cincinnati this weekend for the ABS Regionals competition.  This will be the first time most of our kids will be climbing in a comp of this format (‘onsight’ bouldering) so it should be exciting.  If it all goes well we might be heading out to […]

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