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New Climbing Gym Coming To Boulder

Posted April 9, 2008 at 8:14 am · Comments { 10 } ·

Despite already having 3 gyms within the city of Boulder, CO there is news that a 4th gym called Monument Climbing & Fitness Center will be coming soon.

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Alex Honnold Free Solo of Moonlight Buttress Details

Alex Honnold Free Solo of Moonlight Buttress Details

Posted April 7, 2008 at 4:21 pm · Comments { 13 } ·

For such an intriguing ascent, the news of Alex Honnold’s April Fool’s solo of the 1200 ft. 5.12+ Moonlight Buttress in Zion is coming out at a snail’s pace. Almost a week after I posted having read a small tidbit on the send in the Climbingnarc.com forums, (and reading hints from Peter Beal and MVM) […]

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New Dave Graham V15 in Fontainebleau?

New Dave Graham V15 in Fontainebleau?

Posted April 7, 2008 at 3:28 pm · Comments { 6 } ·

American climbing superstar Dave Graham has opened a possible V15 (8c) in the forest of Fontainebleau, France.

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News & Notes: Spring Break Edition

News & Notes: Spring Break Edition

Posted April 2, 2008 at 11:59 am · Comments { 5 } ·

A few general bits of climbing news along with several links to check out what people were up to over Spring Break: Early last month, Dean Potter completed a 40 foot roof project he called Zen Garden near Moab, UT. He described it as “the hardest roof crack that I know of”. Besides the power […]

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Keep Up The Support Update

Keep Up The Support Update

Posted April 2, 2008 at 2:31 am · Comments { 0 } ·

Thanks to everyone that has used Climbingnarc.com to place their order with any one of our retail affiliates.  Just that easily you have helped to raise money for climbing access and you probably bought some cool stuff.  I encourage everyone to do the same. Here’s how it works:  If you are going to make a […]

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FrontRangeBouldering.com Interview

FrontRangeBouldering.com Interview

Posted March 28, 2008 at 10:52 am · Comments { 6 } ·

I was recently interviewed by the great Colorado based website FrontRangeBouldering.com. So if you can’t get enough of what I have to say here, you can head over to FRB and check out the interview. Thanks to Mike Brooks at FRB for the opportunity! One thing that I noticed during the interview process was how […]

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More On Dave MacLeod’s 5.14b Free Solo

Posted March 21, 2008 at 3:45 am · Comments { 1 } ·

Last week, Dave MacLeod made news when he reported that he had free soloed Darwin Dixit (5.14b) at Margalef, Spain.  As Gabor pointed out in the comments at the time, Kairn.com was raising a question about the grade of the route.  They seemed to be downplaying the effort by pointing out that Chris Sharma onsighted […]

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