Climbers Archives: Dave Graham
News & Notes – 05/13/2008

News & Notes – 05/13/2008

I have another interesting topic for discussion tomorrow, but in the meantime here are a few links for your perusal: If you enjoy salivating over the posts at the Betabase blog, you should consider checking out the blog of Justin Alarcon.  In this post, he spends the day bouldering in The Valley with Beth Rodden […]

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Dave Graham’s New V15 In Fontainebleau: ‘The Island’

Dave Graham’s New V15 In Fontainebleau: ‘The Island’

Pictures from Dave Graham’s new V15 in Fontainebleau called The Island.

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New Dave Graham V15 in Fontainebleau?

New Dave Graham V15 in Fontainebleau?

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

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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Hard, Unrepeated American Routes

Hard, Unrepeated American Routes

Based on the high level of interest in the list of potential V14 and harder boulder problems in North America, I thought it would be a good idea to try and assemble a similar list of Routes. To illustrate a certain point, I will limit the list to routes proposed 5.14d-ish or harder. Being that […]

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News & Notes – 3/19/2008

News & Notes – 3/19/2008

Climbing news: Rastaman Vibration Sit pictures, Midnight Express repeated, Steve House in Argentina, Steve Dieckhoff’s passing, Yosemite Bouldering, Ty Landman FAs and Pete Whittaker on the Hard Grit in Britain.

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News & Notes – 3/10/2008

News & Notes – 3/10/2008

Just an update on Beth Rodden’s new 5.14 trad route Meltdown. Big Up Productions was there filming her work on the route for the upcoming Dosage 5. Big Up shares their first hand takes on what went down including nuggets like, “After about 10 sessions of working it on top-rope Tommy was never able to […]

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