Archive | May, 2012

“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.
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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.

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Regular Dude Climbs Just Do It (5.14c)

Regular Dude Climbs Just Do It (5.14c)

To borrow a phrase from the fine folks over at Rock & Ice, Ryan Palo is a pretty regular dude.  He works for a living, he climbs, he gets injured, he recovers and he climbs some more.  It’s just that when he climbs, he tends to climb 5.14.  Not very regular dude of him.  It […]

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What Did You Do This Weekend?

What Did You Do This Weekend?

Alex Honnold and Tommy Caldwell get the coveted Free Triple in Yosemite

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Ethan Pringle On Jumbo Love

Ethan Pringle is back at Mt. Clark, home to that one route first done by that one guy:

Projecting a route like this requires all of your attention, and having to devote all of your attention to a route like this can get really tiring really fast. At some point, you just want to get it over with. Of course, afterward you feel a mix of relief and loss. Relief that you’re done and the epic is over, and loss that this magnificent line doesn’t require your presence anymore. But for me, I think I’ll have to take a nice long break from serious route projects for a little while after this. Like Randy Levitt said, “It’s like a limestone El Cap.” Obviously, that’s a bit of an exaggeration, but it does sort of convey the amount of work required to complete a project of this caliber.

Pringle is no stranger to Jumbo Love, having tried it even before its FA back in 2008. You can see some footage of those attempts here.

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Video Friday – 5/18/2012

Video Friday – 5/18/2012

Bouldering comp news as well as the top videos from the past week…

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Mon Pote Assis (5.14a) By Heather Robinson

Mon Pote Assis (5.14a) By Heather Robinson

A little over a year after she did her first 5.13d, Heather Robinson fired her first 5.14a when she did Mon Pote Assis at Nevada’s Mt. Potosi.  Commenting about the ascent on her 8a scorecard she had this to say: Oh my goodness! This send was a dream come true. Thank you Chris for believing in […]

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