Climbing Areas Archives: Bishop
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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News & Notes: Friday Links

Here are a few links for your Friday reading pleasures: A good post on the various ways to manage your rope(s) on multi-pitch routes Canada’s Tour de Bloc bouldering event in Fredericton will be broadcast live on the world wide web. This would be a very cool idea for comps like ABS Nationals no? (Dr. […]

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News & Notes – Mass Update

News & Notes – Mass Update

Thanks to James for compiling this massive list of updates. In this update you will find a lot of news on Dai Koyamada’s exploints in the Frankenjura. Also news from Daniel Woods, Jon Cardwell, Chris Sharma, Dave Graham, Lisa Rands and Paxti Usobiaga among others. This has taken me longer than anticipated so some of […]

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News & Notes – Bouldering Edition

News & Notes – Bouldering Edition

A summary of recent bouldering activity including more repeats of Trice in Boulder, Bishop bouldering, hard first ascents in Idaho and scary highball first ascents in Hueco Tanks. Climber’s featured include Daniel Woods, Sean McColl, Matt Fultz, Keivn Jorgeson and others.

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Flight of the Bumble Bee (V7/9 Highball) Videos

Two videos featuring Kevin Jorgeson and Kevin Daniels climbing Flight of the Bumblebee (V7) at the Buttermilks in California.

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Sean McColl Repeats Goldfish Trombone (V14)

Super strong Canadian Sean McColl has repeated one of the hardest problems in Bishop, Goldfish Trombone (V14).  He has also done 11 other problems graded V10 or harder in the past two weeks as well.  You can see video of Sam Edwards on the FA of Goldfish Trombone here.

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