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Countdown To 2008 Bouldering World Cup In Vail

Posted May 23, 2008 at 7:07 am · Comments { 6 } · Photo: Teva Mountain Games

Two weeks from today, internationally sanctioned competition climbing will make its return to U.S. soil at the Teva Mountain Games. It seems like just yesterday we were at ABS Nationals in Boulder watching people qualify!

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Adam Ondra Repeats Action Directe (5.14d)

Posted May 21, 2008 at 9:39 am · Comments { 1 } ·

15 year old Adam Ondra has repeated Wolfgang Gullich’s Action Directe (5.14d) in Germany’s Frankenjura. Read more at Czechclimbing and climbing.com.

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News & Notes – 05/13/2008

Posted May 13, 2008 at 8:18 am · Comments { 12 } ·

I have another interesting topic for discussion tomorrow, but in the meantime here are a few links for your perusal: If you enjoy salivating over the posts at the Betabase blog, you should consider checking out the blog of Justin Alarcon. In this post, he spends the day bouldering in The Valley with Beth Rodden […]

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Adam Ondra, Beth Rodden, Carlo Traversi, Daniel Woods, Dave Graham, David Breashears, Emily Harrington, Justin Alarcon, Paul Robinson, Steve Mammen, Tommy Caldwell

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Clear Creek Canyon, Eldorado Canyon, Magic Wood, Mount Everest, RMNP, Switzerland, Val Masino

News & Notes – 5/8/2008

Posted May 5, 2008 at 11:11 am · Comments { 5 } ·

Not much Earth shattering news going down lately but here are a few things to check out from the past few weeks: Joe Kinder prepared nicely for his 2 month trip to Spain with his recent FA of Golden Direct (5.14d) at the Cathedral in Utah. You can read more about it here, here and […]

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Adam Ondra, Carlo Traversi, Dave MacLeod, Dean Potter, Joe Kinder, Matt Segal, Tim Steele, Ty Landman

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Cathedral, Little Cottonwood Canyon, Moab, Mt. Evans, Spain, Switzerland

How Much Landscaping Of Boulders Is Ok?

Posted April 30, 2008 at 10:25 am · Comments { 23 } ·

These days I don’t get to spend as much time on MVM as I would like, however when I received an email from a reader alerting me to a possible ethical lapse in one of their latest videos I was sure to check it out. What I found was a video featuring Isaac Caldiero bouldering […]

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Kevin Jorgeson & Paul Robinson Send The Fly In Rumney

Posted April 11, 2008 at 6:39 pm · Comments { 5 } ·

Joe Kinder is reporting on his blog that Kevin Jorgeson has made the 2nd ropeless ascent of Dave Graham’s The Fly (5.14d, V13/14?) in Rumney, NH. The first ropeless ascent was by Jason Kehl back in 2003. It sounds like video cameras were rolling for Kevin’s ascent so I guess we can look forward to […]

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Jason Kehl, Kevin Jorgeson, Paul Robinson

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News & Notes: Spring Break Followup

Posted April 11, 2008 at 8:08 am · Comments { 4 } ·

A bit of followup on last week’s Spring Break edition of News & Notes. Here are a few more links for you to check out: Many of you are no doubt following Jamie Emerson’s updates from Europe on his trip with Ryan Olson and Angie Payne. However, somewhat lost in the double digit shuffle has […]

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