Dave Graham has made what is likely the 2nd ascent of Ramon Julian Puigblanque‘s Esclatamasters at Perles, Spain. It took him only 8 tries over the course of about 5 months. He had noted his desire to climb this route in his Pro Blogs here and here. The route consists of 25 meters of difficult […]
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Petzl Roctrip Coming to the Red River Gorge!
I’d say this qualifies as a big freaking deal. The Petzl Roctrip is coming to the Red River Gorge. The event will be during the annual Rocktoberfest celebration that was already pretty badass to begin with. Info from the RRGCC site: The RRGCC and Petzl have paired up to bring you Rocktoberfest and Petzl RocTrip, […]
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Envy & Joe’s Valley Bouldering
First off, despite the fact that I tend to read way too much about climbers and know more about their sends than they probably do, I do not really know any of the climbers that I report about here. It’s just another facet of being narcissistic; I am abnormally obsessed with the accomplishments of others. […]
News & Notes – 3/5/2007
As I noted in my review of the “climbing” movie Specimen, the movie is not that great. Turns out Rock & Ice was even less generous in their latest issue. They give the movie 1.5 Stars out of a possible 5 The aforementioned new issue of Rock & Ice has a brief write-up about Mike […]
News & Notes – 2/26/2007
Not much going on the past week, here are a few quick hitters: Ty Landman flashed the first ascent of Freak Brothers II (V10/11) at Boulder Canyon, CO. It was quickly repeated by his brother Jeff, Paul Robinson, Daniel Woods, and Jamie Emerson. Jamie has more about it on his site. Dave MacLeod of E11 […]
"What was the standard…
…you know…they’re going to get flashed” – paraphrasing Dave Graham in Dosage 4. Speaking of standard setting problems getting flashed, Freakclimbing has a good story about the recent flash of “Ganymede Takeover” (V13) at Brione, Switzerland by James Pearson. V13 has been flashed previously by the likes of Sharma & Litz but those problems were […]
2007 ABS Nationals Results
Here are the results from the ABS National Bouldering Competition held Feb 16-17 in Maryland. Men 1 Daniel Woods 4400.00 2 Paul Robinson 4400.00 3 Sean McColl 4400.00 Women 1 Alex Puccio 4400.00 2 Elizabeth Asher 4400.00 3 Angela Payne 4400.00 Click here to listen to audio commentary of finals courtesy of Podclimber.com My reaction? […]
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