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Southern Smoke Repeated By 12-Year-Old Harry Edwards

Southern Smoke Repeated By 12-Year-Old Harry Edwards

Don’t tell Joe Kinder or this guy, but it looks like Kinder’s route Southern Smoke (5.14c) in the Red River Gorge is the new go to route for young crushers

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Fred Nicole: Deeper

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Beth Rodden Is Climbing Back

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Ian Powell Shaping Life

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FFA Of Chemical Ali (5.14a) By Kristin Yurdin

Nice write-up by DPM about 42-year-old Smith Rock local Kristin Yurdin climbing her first 5.14a with a repeat of Chemical Ali:

[husband] Ian describes a crucial part of Kristin’s training program as finger-boarding, tread-walling, cutting stuff, grilling things, lifting heavy French fry baskets and carrying cases of wine up 12-foot ladders.

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Tributes To Layton Kor

Nice collection of tributes to Layton Kor over at Climbing.com, including this one from Steve Komito:

My clearest memories of these adventures include the feeling of sand in my ears and eyes, the sight of Layton’s enormous rock shoes in stirrups over my head, tiny belay stances hung over a void so vast that at times it seemed I must be looking downward into the heavens, and always, the sense that The Force was with me.

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Five Ten Takes Over SCS Nationals

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