Climbing Areas Archives: California

Video Friday: The Bachar-Yerian

Posted November 12, 2010 at 8:37 am · Comments { 11 } ·

A little runout climbing on the Bachar-Yerian to get your palms sweating on this Friday

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Andrew Rock, Jan McCollum

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Yosemite

New Speed Record On The Nose By Potter And Leary

Posted November 8, 2010 at 7:20 am · Comments { 8 } ·

According to SuperTopo and Speedclimb.com Dean Potter and Sean Leary teamed up to set a new speed record for climbing The Nose on El Capitan. The pair blazed up the wall in at an astonishing 2:36:45, shaving 20 seconds off the previous record set by Hans Florine and Yuji Hirayama in 2008.

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Dean Potter, Sean Leary

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Yosemite

Alex Honnold & Will Stanhope Team Up To Repeat Southern Belle

Posted November 2, 2010 at 12:47 pm · Comments { 6 } ·

Alex Honnold & Will Stanhope teamed up to repeat Southern Belle, one of the most notoriously runout routes in all of Yosemite

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Alex Honnold, Will Stanhope

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Yosemite

New Free Route On El Cap

Posted November 1, 2010 at 8:10 am · Comments { 5 } · Photo: Alastair Lee

Leo Holding and Jason Pickles add a new free route to Yosemite’s El Capitan

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Jason Pickles, Leo Houlding

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Yosemite

Possible V13 At Rock Creek By Charlie Barrett

Posted October 21, 2010 at 12:59 pm · Comments { 0 } ·

The Bishop Bouldering Blog reports that Charlie Barrett established a sit start to Compression Session (V9) at Rock Creek near Bishop, CA to yield a potential V13 called Lessons. Barrett then moved over to Yosemite where he repeated Matt Wilder’s stunning V12 Shadow Warrior which gives me an excuse to link to this video on DPM featuring multiple repeats of said problem.

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Charlie Barrett

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Rock Creek

The Season Begins For Tommy Caldwell & Kevin Jorgeson On El Cap

Posted October 20, 2010 at 7:29 am · Comments { 8 } ·

Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson are back in Yosemite for the Fall season to have another go at their well documented project on El Capitan’s Dawn Wall

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