Bishop Bouldering: 365 Days Ago
November 22, 2006 Buttermilks, Bishop, CA High Plains Drifter
Climbing Area
27 posts in the archive.
The Archive
November 22, 2006 Buttermilks, Bishop, CA High Plains Drifter
I realize lately that I have been spending too much time blogging about myself and not enough time talking about all the action going down elsewhere so here goes nothing: During hi...
Here are a few news & notes from the past week: As I mentioned earlier , Paul Robinson had a pretty good day at the Buttermilks when he sent 2 v14's in one day. Dave Graham redpoin...
I'll be posting a few pictures a day over the next few days from my trip to Bishop last November. I'll start with some pictures from the Buttermilks. High Plains Drifter Cave Probl...
Soulslinger. One of the Buttermilks's most iconic problems. At V9 it is tops on the ticklist of many who aspire to climb hard problems, but cannot pull down on double digit testp...
During my 2006 trip to Bishop, I spent a lot of rest time running around and fondling holds of testpieces like The Mandala. Who hasn't? However, I couldn't spend the hole trip mi...
Just an update on Beth Rodden's new 5.14 trad route Meltdown . Big Up Productions was there filming her work on the route for the upcoming Dosage 5. Big Up shares their first hand...
Matt Birch recently repeated The Mandala Sit Start (V14) at the Buttermilks outside of Bishop, CA. By my count this is the problem's 7th ascent. Wade David has photos posted from b...
I thought it would be interesting to compile a list of hard (V14 and up) boulder problems that have not been repeated in North America. Thanks to everyone for help in compiling the...
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....
Feast on the latest edition of News & Notes with news about several repeats of Dave Graham V15s in Europe, a tragic accident in Red Rocks, a lesson about the importance of helmets...
Paul Robinson nabs the FA the Rastaman Vibration Sit Start, the hardest boulder problem in Bishop, CA and one of the hardest in the U.S. UPDATED
News about the 2010 Reel Rock Film Tour and Paul Robinson's latest efforts on Bishop's Rasta Man Vibration Sit Start project
News & Notes from Chris Sharma, Daila Ojeda, Chris Webb Parsons, Hueco Rock Rodeo Results and much more...
News & Notes of a new V14 in Utah, a new competition series from NE2C, highballs in Bishop and much more...
News & Notes from Matt Wilder, Paul Robinson, Daniel Woods and MORE. Updated 1/12/10.
Almost a year after a debilitating shoulder injury, Australia's Chris Webb Parsons begins his comeback at the Buttermilks
News & Notes from Nina Caprez, Cedric Lachat, Kevin Jorgeson, Fred Nicole and much more...
A smorgasbord of News & Notes to get you through your Wednesday
Ambrosia, the tall line on the south face of the Grandpa Peabody boulder at Bishop's Buttermilks made famous by Kevin Jorgeson's FA in Progression, saw its 4th ascent yesterday at...
Just the other week Alex Johnson mentioned in the comments of the Bucket List post that the iconic boulder problem The Mandala (V12) was high on her list of problem she was looking...
More hard sending for Alex Puccio
V15 repeats for Alex Megos, Griffin Whiteside, Kilian Fischhuber, Manuel Brunn, Martin Keller and Nils Favre
Daniel Woods completes the first ascent of the big project out in Bishop