Archive | May, 2011

Access News From The Red River Gorge

Posted May 24, 2011 at 10:51 am · Comments { 22 } ·

The extended Memorial Day weekend will be here in short order and for many climbers the 3-day weekend affords us the opportunity to hit the road to our favorite climbing destination. One area sure to be inundated with climbers over the holiday weekend will be Kentucky’s Red River Gorge, an area that is, frankly, in […]

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Report From 2011 New River Rendezvous

Posted May 24, 2011 at 6:37 am · Comments { 0 } ·

The 2011 edition of the New River Rendezvous went down in West Virginia last weekend and DPM was there to capture the weekend in words and video.

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3 Climbing Media Interviews With Chin, Fryberger & Pavlicek

Posted May 23, 2011 at 9:20 am · Comments { 4 } ·

Not much doing on the news front from the weekend, but there are a few interviews done recently with Jimmy Chin, Chuck Fryberger and Petr Pavlicek that I thought were worth sharing.

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Video Friday – 5/20/2011

Posted May 20, 2011 at 8:25 am · Comments { 11 } ·

Before the videos get started I wanted to offer a little more background on the video of Adam Ondra’s FA of Chaxi Raxi (5.15b). Writing on his newly redesigned blog, Andrew Bisharat points out how Ondra added bolts to the bottom of the route so that he could climb the route “ground up” instead of […]

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Potential V13 By Therese Johansen In Norway

Posted May 19, 2011 at 7:05 am · Comments { 4 } · Photo: Therese Johansen on Propaganda

Norway’s Therese Johansen repeats Bernd Zangerl’s Propaganda, a potential V13 in Norway

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2011 Dominion Riverrock Bouldering Comp Results

Posted May 18, 2011 at 6:52 am · Comments { 6 } · Photo: Alex Johnson at the Dominion Riverrock comp by DPM

The World Cup wasn’t the only comp taking place last weekend as a small field comprised of many of America’s strongest boulderers including Daniel Woods, Paul Robinson, Sasha DiGiulian and Angie Payne turned out for the Blue Ridge Mountain Sports Boulder Bash at the Dominion Riverrock Sports Festival in Richmond, VA.

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