Climbers Archives: Dave MacLeod
News & Notes – 8/4/2008

News & Notes – 8/4/2008

News & Notes from bouldering strongmen, a Mt. Evans bouldering guidebook in the works, the Fortress Of Solitude and more…

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News & Notes: Get Outta Town Edition

News & Notes: Get Outta Town Edition

News & Notes including Dave MacLeod, Buttermilks bouldering video, the 5.13ds of Rifle, Ty Landman and more…

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News & Notes – 5/8/2008

News & Notes – 5/8/2008

Not much Earth shattering news going down lately but here are a few things to check out from the past few weeks: Joe Kinder prepared nicely for his 2 month trip to Spain with his recent FA of Golden Direct (5.14d) at the Cathedral in Utah.  You can read more about it here, here and […]

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More On Dave MacLeod’s 5.14b Free Solo

Last week, Dave MacLeod made news when he reported that he had free soloed Darwin Dixit (5.14b) at Margalef, Spain.  As Gabor pointed out in the comments at the time, Kairn.com was raising a question about the grade of the route.  They seemed to be downplaying the effort by pointing out that Chris Sharma onsighted […]

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Dave MacLeod Free Solos 5.14b in Spain

Dave MacLeod Free Solos 5.14b in Spain

Dave MacLeod, best known for his difficult headpoints in Britain, recently free soloed Darwin Dixit (5.14b) in Margalef, Spain.  Unless someone can think of something harder, this is probably the hardest free solo (not a highball boulder) ever done.  I couldn’t find much information on the route as far as how tall it is or […]

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More Hard Sport Routes in Spain

More Hard Sport Routes in Spain

Thanks to James for compiling this news In more sport climbing news: Patxi Usobiaga: repeated La Rambla (9a+) on Nov 27, 2007 at Siurana, Spain. The route had its first ascent by Ramón Julian Puigblanque and had been repeated by Edu Marin, Chris Sharma, and Andreas Bindhammer. Many of the climbers used different beta, where […]

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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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