Climbing Areas Archives: Canada

2010

Posted August 3, 2010 at 6:18 am · Comments { 7 } ·

News & Notes from Dave Graham, Alex Honnold, the Pou brothers, another new 5.14 in Utah, more World Cups coming to North America and more…

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Alex Honnold, Anthony Chertudi, Dave Graham, David Lama, Eneko Pou, Iker Pou, Jason Kruk, Sonnie Trotter

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Céüse, Chek Canyon, Logan Canyon, Mt. Evans, Patagonia, Squamish

More Hard Female Sends

Posted June 18, 2010 at 7:44 am · Comments { 5 } ·

The Summer of the Woman™ continued this week out on the boulders as Angie Payne dispatched Clear Blue Skies at Mt. Evans calling it “definitely not V12. I guess V11” while over in Squamish Thomasina Pidgeon continued her good year with sends of Summoning Sit (V12) and Tim’s Face (V11).

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Angie Payne, Thomasina Pidgeon

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Mt. Evans, Squamish

Sonnie Trotter Back In Action

Posted June 3, 2010 at 9:48 am · Comments { 14 } · Photo: Sonnie Trotter Blog

After spending the end of last year recovering from a ruptured appendix, Canada’s Sonnie Trotter is back in top form again with two notable ascents in the past couple of weeks.

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Sonnie Trotter

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Joshua Tree, Squamish

The Anti Cam

Posted May 24, 2010 at 8:23 am · Comments { 3 } ·

Just a few short months after first posting about it the web based TV show The Season, which followed athletes in a variety of outdoor sports as they progressed through a season of their respective sports in the Pacific Northwest, came to an end last week. Looking back I enjoyed the show quite a bit. […]

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Matt Maddaloni

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Squamish

Video Of Hard Sport Route 2nd Ascents To Get You Psyched

Posted February 19, 2010 at 1:13 pm · Comments { 15 } ·

Video of Iker Pou doing the 2nd ascent of Chris Sharma’s Demencia Senil (5.15a) in Margalef, Spain and Dave Graham doing the 2nd ascent of Lev Pinter’s Bunda Ju Fora (5.14d) in Acephale, Canada

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Dave Graham, Iker Pou

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Acephale, Margalef

Yuji Hirayama: Older, Wiser…And Still Pretty Strong

Posted October 1, 2009 at 6:17 am · Comments { 5 } · Photo: Yuji Hirayama

40-year-old Yuji Hirayama, the legendary all around climber from Japan, made a trip to British Columbia late this summer. Not surprisingly he left with a couple of notable sends that included a repeat of the Squamish trad climbing testpiece Cobra Crack (5.14) and an onsight of Dinosaur Highway (5.14a) at Horne Lake. Besides the impressive sends, […]

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