Climbing Areas Archives: Yosemite
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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Rachel & Eddie El Cap Pictures

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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Rachel & Eddie El Cap Nose Report

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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More From 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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