Climbing Areas Archives: Utah
News & Notes – 3/19/2008

News & Notes – 3/19/2008

Posted March 19, 2008 at 12:10 pm · Comments { 18 } ·

Climbing news: Rastaman Vibration Sit pictures, Midnight Express repeated, Steve House in Argentina, Steve Dieckhoff’s passing, Yosemite Bouldering, Ty Landman FAs and Pete Whittaker on the Hard Grit in Britain.

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Dean Potter: Learning to Fly?

Dean Potter: Learning to Fly?

Posted March 14, 2008 at 8:00 am · Comments { 20 } ·

Thanks to the reader with the semi-inappropriate screen name that sent me a heads up on this article. Climbing has hit the front pages of The New York Times…sort of.  Controversial climber, slack liner and BASE-jumper Dean Potter has a big article on his latest non-climbing adventure:  a combination of highlining and Base-jumping.  For those […]

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Hard, Unrepeated American Boulders

Posted February 4, 2008 at 7:22 am · Comments { 211 } ·

I thought it would be interesting to compile a list of hard (V14 and up) boulder problems that have not been repeated in North America. Thanks to everyone for help in compiling these problems (Most of these grades are pure speculation from outside observers): Nuclear War – V14 – Matt Bosley – Harriman State Park, […]

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Anunaki (5.12-) at Indian Creek Video

Posted January 15, 2008 at 9:25 am · Comments { 5 } ·

A video of a climber on Anunaki at Indian Creek, Utah.

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News & Notes – 8/20/2007

Posted August 20, 2007 at 6:30 am · Comments { 0 } ·

A scary story that seems to be coming to a positive resolution is that of Ryan Sewell contracting the Hantavirus virus while climbing in Rifle, CO.  Unfortunately both Ryan and his friend Future Roden (who was camping with Ryan in Rifle) were to represent the US at the upcoming Youth World Championships in Ecaudor, however […]

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Martina Cufar Comes to America

Martina Cufar Comes to America

Posted July 3, 2007 at 3:16 pm · Comments { 0 } ·

Former World Champion sport climber Martina Cufar from Slovenia announced her retirement from competitive climbing in 2006. During her competition days she sent sport routes as hard as 5.14b at her local crag Misja Pec in Slovenia. Recently she set out for the United States with the goal of climbing El Capitan in Yosemite. The […]

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News & Notes – 6/25/2007

News & Notes – 6/25/2007

Posted June 25, 2007 at 11:47 am · Comments { 0 } ·

Finally back with it…somewhat… Of course the big news while I was gone was Daniel Woods fulfilling another portion of my earlier predictions when he did the first ascent of the Green 45 Project at RMNP. He has called the problem Jade and suggested the grade of V15. Several cameras were rolling and you can […]

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