Archive | October, 2013
Video Friday – 10/11/2013

Video Friday – 10/11/2013

Posted October 11, 2013 at 8:26 am · Comments { 7 } ·

The 2013 Portland Boulder Rally and the highest rated videos of the past week

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→ Yosemite Post-Shutdown∞

Posted October 10, 2013 at 12:54 pm · Comments { 0 } ·

Cheyne Lempe, in an interview with Climbing.com, on what it is like in Yosemite now that most everyone has been forced to leave due to the government being shutdown:

This past week has honestly been one of the most incredible experiences I have ever had in the park. It’s almost eerie how quiet it is.
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I live in a tent cabin in the back of Camp 4, so the constant noise of car alarms, traffic, screaming children, and drunken hollering from all the people is nonexistent.
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Last week Camp 4 was completely full, now there are only a few abandoned tents. I’ve been noticing more of the subtle beauty of this place.

Sounds amazing.

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Live From The North Face Kalymnos Climbing Festival 2013

Live From The North Face Kalymnos Climbing Festival 2013

Posted October 10, 2013 at 7:32 am · Comments { 0 } ·

Catch live streaming from the Kalymnos Climbing Festival

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→ Making The Most Of A Bad Situation∞

Posted October 9, 2013 at 8:48 am · Comments { 12 } ·

Remember that one time that Chris Sharma was going to join Tommy Caldwell and crew for a season on Yosemite’s Dawn Wall but couldn’t because the government shut down and Yosemite was closed?  That was pretty cool uncool.  According to Climbing.com, instead of trying to stick it to the man and try to climb in the park illegally, Sharma has moved on to something else for now:

Kept out of Yosemite by the government shutdown, and thus unable to work on the Dawn Wall as planned, Chris Sharma traveled south for another mega-project: a futuristic route on Clark Mountain.

Go on…

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→ Wild Country Recall∞

Posted October 9, 2013 at 7:42 am · Comments { 0 } ·

Heads up if you own any Wild Country Rocks or Classic Rocks:

For the safety of all of our customers we are issuing an immediate recall of certain batches of Wild Country Classic Rocks and Anodised Rocks

If you own any Wild Country Classic Rocks and/or Anodised Rocks that were purchased any time from January 2010 onwards please read the PDF notices carefully and follow the instructions “How to Identify the Product”, so that you can ascertain whether your product is from one of the affected batches.

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News & Notes? – 10/8/2013

Posted October 8, 2013 at 8:24 am · Comments { 0 } ·

A few tidbits of bouldering news on Paul Robinson, Michael O’Rourke, Isabelle Faus and Thomasina Pidgeon from the past couple of weeks

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→ More On Wide Boys’ Cobra Crack Send∞

Posted October 7, 2013 at 8:29 pm · Comments { 1 } ·

Really enjoyed this piece on The RV Project about the process behind Tom Randall and Pete Whittaker both repeating Cobra Crack (5.14) in Squamish, BC:

Tom and Pete will be the first to tell you that they are not very strong. This is obviously “rubbish,” as they’ve now done the hardest offwidth and now one of the hardest finger cracks in the world.
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 I think what they mean is that they are not well-established. There will soon be a second film about them, but they don’t do comps, haven’t moved to Boulder or Innsbruck or Yosemite. When they listed the Cobra ascentionists on the Earlmaker, they remarked on how silly their names looked next to Honnold, Favresse, Trotter and the rest. “A couple of punters” was a phrase oft employed self-referentially.
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Weird.  I’m a punter as well, but unlike these guys I never actually send anything.  I’ll have to find out what their secret is.

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