Climbing Areas Archives: California

News & Notes Returns! 5/29/2007

More on the weekend later but here is some spray from the past week: Helping me get my previous predictions off on the right foot, Ty Landman made the 2nd ascent of Ode To The Modern Man at Mt. Evans and gave it a grade of hard V14. See video of him putting it “in […]

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News & Notes – 5/14/2007

Big news of last week was Daniel Woods making the 2nd ascent of Suspension of Disbelief (V13 or V14) at Eldorado Canyon, CO. Dave Graham called it V13 but Daniel felt it was harder than any V14 he had done so he proposed upgrading it to V14. Ethan Pringle did the first ascent of Jumbo […]

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Valley Bouldering

Valley Bouldering

When we did some bouldering in Yosemite last summer for our Honeymoon, I had assumed that all the bouldering had to have been tapped out.buy premarin online medstaff.englewoodhealth.org/wp-content/languages/new/premarin.html no prescription People have been climbing in the Valley for decades, how could everything not have gotten done already right? Turns out like usual, I was wrong. […]

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The Mandala

In an apparent effort to turn the classic Buttermilks problem The Mandala into a western version of the Dark Waters boulder in Clear Creek, CO, two new variations/lines were recently established up the famous prow. On 3/22 Jeff Sillcox did the first ascent of what he called Mandala Direct and gave it the same grade […]

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News & Notes – 3/26/2007

Here are a few news & notes from the past week: As I mentioned earlier, Paul Robinson had a pretty good day at the Buttermilks when he sent 2 v14’s in one day. Dave Graham redpointed Ali Baba (.14c) and now has his eyes set on the .14d linkup of Ali Baba and Hulk. Mike […]

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Paul Robinson

There’s not much else to say except that Paul Robinson has been crushing it lately. In the past 2 days in Bishop he has done the following: Mandala SDS – V14 in 1 day – same day as Swarm The Swarm – V14 2nd try (that day) Direction – V13 The Mystery – V12/13 Can […]

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News & Notes – 3/19/2007

News & Notes – 3/19/2007

A few tidbits from the past week: Another week another FA for Dave Graham. This time it is the FA of a V13 boulder problem he has called Do or Die at Cogul, Spain. You can also read more about him climbing two 5.14c in one day at climbing.com Ethan Pringle has repeated Chris Sharma’s […]

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