Climbing Areas Archives: California

Buttermilks: Cave Problem

Posted July 16, 2008 at 6:52 am · Comments { 4 } ·

During my 2006 trip to Bishop, I spent a lot of rest time running around and fondling holds of testpieces like The Mandala. Who hasn’t? However, I couldn’t spend the hole trip mimicking sequences I would never need to know so eventually I had to climb. When I was done molesting the “holds” on The Buttermilker, made famous by Dave Graham in Dosage 1, I walked 10 feet up the hill to try Cave Problem (V4/5/6?).

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Bishop, Buttermilks

Rachel & Eddie El Cap Pictures

Posted July 11, 2008 at 8:19 am · Comments { 7 } · Photo: Rachel and Eddie on top of El Cap after climbing the Nose.

Short on words, long on pictures, here is a visual summary of Rachel & Eddie’s trip up the Big Stone. They got to spend their first night on El Cap Tower with Ivo Ninov and Eric Pearlman who were in position to film the speed record. Included in the gallery are a couple of pictures […]

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Yosemite

News & Notes: Get Outta Town Edition

Posted July 10, 2008 at 8:58 am · Comments { 4 } ·

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

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Adam Lincoln, Dave Graham, Dave MacLeod, Jonathan Siegrist, Ryan Olson, Ty Landman

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Buttermilks, Hampi, Mt. Evans, Rifle

Rachel & Eddie El Cap Nose Report

Posted July 2, 2008 at 10:43 am · Comments { 2 } · Photo: Tom Evans

Not to turn this site into a Rachel and Eddie love-fest, but if you wanted to see some of their progress on The Nose of El Capitan be sure to check out the daily El Cap reports at the Super Topo Forum. Here is the report from their progress on 7/1: I heard from a […]

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Yosemite

More From Yosemite

Posted July 1, 2008 at 7:37 am · Comments { 1 } ·

This week’s Yosemite update includes David (broken heel and all) and Rachel climbing on Separate Reality, Eddie climbing on Tales of Power (5.12b), a trip to the Mariposa Grove and an insane rope swing.

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Hans Florine, Yuji Hirayama

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Yosemite

Stuck On Yosemite

Posted June 24, 2008 at 9:30 am · Comments { 10 } · Photo: Rachel "hanging out" in the Harding Slot on Astroman

A few friends of ours, David, Rachel and Eddie, have been out in Yosemite for the past few weeks. After a few tantalizing emails about their exploits they were kind enough to share some photos. The first few are from Rachel and Eddie’s recent ascent of the uber famous 5.11 Astroman followed by all 3 on the equally uber famous Separate Reality (5.12ish?).

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