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Yosemite Museum Climbing Exhibit

Yosemite Museum Climbing Exhibit

Posted August 19, 2008 at 8:30 am · Comments { 0 } ·

While in Yosemite we had the good fortune of visiting during the Climbing Exhibit that was on display at the Yosemite Museum. The free exhibit is an incredible journey back in time over the past century of climbing in Yosemite.

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Yosemite Bouldering: Park Life

Yosemite Bouldering: Park Life

Posted August 7, 2008 at 3:55 am · Comments { 3 } ·

While in Yosemite I checked out one of the more famous testpieces, ‘Park Life’ (V12)

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Yosemite Bouldering: Housekeeping

Yosemite Bouldering: Housekeeping

Posted August 5, 2008 at 8:40 am · Comments { 6 } ·

If this is a post about the Housekeeping boulders, then why is the preview image of the LeConte memorial you ask? Because it gives me an excuse to bring up Dean Potter’s ridiculous problems on the LeConte boulder: the 40 foot tall King Air (V10) and the horrendously pin scarred crack Sasquatch (V11).

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Yosemite Bouldering: Candyland

Yosemite Bouldering: Candyland

Posted July 31, 2008 at 7:20 am · Comments { 9 } ·

If you are looking to pad your spraysheet with a slew of easy ticks, Yosemite might not be for you. If you are looking to try hard and climb classic lines regardless of the grade then you would probably enjoy the climbing in Yosemite. Much like we did. Read on for more.

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Midnight Lightning

Midnight Lightning

Posted July 25, 2008 at 7:35 am · Comments { 5 } ·

Let’s start out the stories from our trip to Yosemite with someone (sadly not me) sending the most famous boulder problem on the planet, Midnight Lightning (V8).  Located smack dab in the middle of Yosemite’s famous Camp 4 campground (and literally 10 feet from the bathrooms), Midnight Lightning’s fame does come with a few downfalls. […]

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Happy Boulders: Hulk [Ego Crush]

Happy Boulders: Hulk [Ego Crush]

Posted July 18, 2008 at 7:04 am · Comments { 4 } · Photo: Tim Kettering

To conclude this series of posts, let me recount one of my more unpleasant experiences during my trip to Bishop. One of the more well known moderate lines at the Happy Boulders is Hulk. The Dr. Topo guide gave it V6, but I have seen it other places as low as V4. Why is this important? Because I got totally shutdown, that’s why.

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Buttermilks: Soulslinger

Buttermilks: Soulslinger

Posted July 17, 2008 at 6:52 am · Comments { 6 } ·

Soulslinger. One of the Buttermilks’s most iconic problems. At V9 it is tops on the ticklist of many who aspire to climb hard problems, but cannot pull down on double digit testpieces like The Mandala (V12) or Stained Glass (V10). Like many of the problems at the Buttermilks, it has a convenient boulder adjacent to it that gets you in perfect position to take killer top-down photos.

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