Climbing Areas Archives: California
Video Of Tommy Caldwell Working On Freeing Mescalito On El Capitan

Video Of Tommy Caldwell Working On Freeing Mescalito On El Capitan

More on Tommy Caldwell’s attempt to free climb Mescalito on El Capitan, including footage of some attempts

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Climbing Video: Hayden Kennedy On The Bachar-Yerian (5.11c R/X)

Climbing Video: Hayden Kennedy On The Bachar-Yerian (5.11c R/X)

Video of Hayden Kennedy climbing the iconic and runout Bachar-Yerian (5.11c X) in Tuolumne

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Tuolumne Trip 2009

Tuolumne Trip 2009

I originally came up with the idea of going to Tuolumne Meadows in Yosemite National Park for a week of climbing long trad routes earlier this year during one of my frequent injury breaks from hard climbing. What I forgot to take into account was that Mrs. Narc and I hadn’t really climbed that many long trad routes so we weren’t even sure how much we even liked that kind of climbing in the first place.

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What’s It Like To Climb The Nose In A Day?

What’s It Like To Climb The Nose In A Day?

There have been a lot of videos made about climbing the Nose on El Cap in a day, most notably Tommy Caldwell in Dosage IV and the insane speed record of Hans Florine and Yuji Hirayama shown in the latest Masters Of Stone movie. However, watching the very best at any sport do something doesn’t really give us common folk a real sense for how difficult something like climbing El Cap in a day can be.

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Climbing Video: Ethan Pringle Iron Resolution (V13) 2nd Ascent

Climbing Video: Ethan Pringle Iron Resolution (V13) 2nd Ascent

Back in 2003, a strange thing happened in Joshua Tree National Park in Southern California. A massive rainstorm came through that caused a boulder to fall over from its perch between two other walls. The happenstance of this boulder falling over revealed the potential for a proud and difficult new boulder problem to be climbed.

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John Bachar Dead At Age 52

John Bachar Dead At Age 52

Legendary climber John Bachar died yesterday in an apparent free soloing accident at the Dike Wall near his home in Mammoth Lakes, CA

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Climbing Video:  Nic Oklobzija Climbing Chumscrubber (V11) At Way Lake

Climbing Video: Nic Oklobzija Climbing Chumscrubber (V11) At Way Lake

The area around Bishop, CA is well known for being a great cold weather destination with tons of bouldering to be had at the Buttermilks, The Happys and elsewhere. What is not as well known is that there is at least some summertime bouldering to be had as well with the one area getting most of the attention lately being Way Lake.

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