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The Outsider: 85 Days In Fontainebleau (Climbing Movie)

The Outsider: 85 Days In Fontainebleau (Climbing Movie)

Posted July 30, 2008 at 10:10 am · Comments { 2 } · Photo: UncleSomebody

It took me awhile to get around to watching it (on my iPhone no less), but the recently released climbing movie The Outsider was well worth the wait.  It features a plethora of classic blocs from one man’s 85 day stint in Fontainebleau, France (and one day in Switzerland), all shot in beautiful high definition.  […]

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Midnight Lightning

Midnight Lightning

Posted July 25, 2008 at 7:35 am · Comments { 5 } ·

Let’s start out the stories from our trip to Yosemite with someone (sadly not me) sending the most famous boulder problem on the planet, Midnight Lightning (V8).  Located smack dab in the middle of Yosemite’s famous Camp 4 campground (and literally 10 feet from the bathrooms), Midnight Lightning’s fame does come with a few downfalls. […]

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Happy Boulders: Hulk [Ego Crush]

Happy Boulders: Hulk [Ego Crush]

Posted July 18, 2008 at 7:04 am · Comments { 4 } · Photo: Tim Kettering

To conclude this series of posts, let me recount one of my more unpleasant experiences during my trip to Bishop. One of the more well known moderate lines at the Happy Boulders is Hulk. The Dr. Topo guide gave it V6, but I have seen it other places as low as V4. Why is this important? Because I got totally shutdown, that’s why.

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Buttermilks: Soulslinger

Buttermilks: Soulslinger

Posted July 17, 2008 at 6:52 am · Comments { 6 } ·

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 testpieces like The Mandala (V12) or Stained Glass (V10). Like many of the problems at the Buttermilks, it has a convenient boulder adjacent to it that gets you in perfect position to take killer top-down photos.

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Buttermilks: Cave Problem

Buttermilks: Cave Problem

Posted July 16, 2008 at 6:52 am · Comments { 4 } ·

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 mimicking sequences I would never need to know so eventually I had to climb. When I was done molesting the “holds” on The Buttermilker, made famous by Dave Graham in Dosage 1, I walked 10 feet up the hill to try Cave Problem (V4/5/6?).

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Governor Dodge: The Good Times Are Killing Me

Governor Dodge: The Good Times Are Killing Me

Posted July 15, 2008 at 6:50 am · Comments { 9 } ·

No One Gets Outta Here Alive (V2) is probably one of the best boulder problems at Governor Dodge State Park in Southwest Wisconsin. Check out these two sequences of photos featuring Nate & Tony climbing this gem.

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Rachel & Eddie El Cap Pictures

Rachel & Eddie El Cap Pictures

Posted July 11, 2008 at 8:19 am · Comments { 7 } · Photo: Rachel and Eddie on top of El Cap after climbing the Nose.

Short on words, long on pictures, here is a visual summary of Rachel & Eddie’s trip up the Big Stone.  They got to spend their first night on El Cap Tower with Ivo Ninov and Eric Pearlman who were in position to film the speed record.  Included in the gallery are a couple of pictures […]

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