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News & Notes! 10/8/2007

News & Notes! 10/8/2007

I’ve spent way too much time spraying about myself lately and not nearly enough time spraying about the accomplishments of others. Here is my attempt to make up for this fact: Andre DeFelice has had a good summer of progression up the bouldering grades. Last week he repeated Circadian Rhythm (V13) at Poudre Canyon, CO […]

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News & Notes – 9/17/2007

Let’s get back to the spray… Paul Robinson made the 2nd ascent of Harry Roberton’s Both Sides of the Spectrum (V12). He also put a new V9 highball at Camp Dick which he called The Tragedy of Commons. Ty Landman made the 3rd ascent of Daniel Woods’s Aslan (V14) in Lower Chaos Canyon, RMNP. Andy […]

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News & Notes – 08/27/2007

News & Notes – 08/27/2007

As usual, I go away from a computer for a weekend and the sendtrain begins… The big news is that Paul Robinson has made the 3rd ascent of Jade (V15 for now) in RMNP. The day after the Jade send, Paul did the second ascent of Chris Schulte’s new V13 Child Stars SDS at Mt. […]

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Midweek News – 08/22/07

Here are a few interesting stories to check out Splitterchoss has a couple of cool tidbits on climbing at Rifle. First is a post about a feature story done about climbing at Rifle Mountain Park in the Glenwood Post Independent. Second is news about a new guidebook for Western Colorado climbing that will feature updated […]

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News & Notes – 8/20/2007

A scary story that seems to be coming to a positive resolution is that of Ryan Sewell contracting the Hantavirus virus while climbing in Rifle, CO.  Unfortunately both Ryan and his friend Future Roden (who was camping with Ryan in Rifle) were to represent the US at the upcoming Youth World Championships in Ecaudor, however […]

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News & Notes – 8/6/2007

News & Notes – 8/6/2007

As usual, I go out of town and a ton of things happen: Last week Ty Landman visited Squamish and did what he normally does, which is climb hard problems. He did 1 V13 and a couple of V12’s including one flash. Throw in a handful of V10’s and V11’s and I think most people […]

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More News & Notes – 7/30/2007

More News & Notes – 7/30/2007

I really dropped the ball this morning when I failed to mention a few more tidbits to check out: An updated version of the already phenomenal guidebook to sport climbing at the Red River Gorge is coming out September 28, 2007: The Red River Gorge in eastern Kentucky is one of the best rock-climbing areas […]

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