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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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Living The High Life At Devil’s Lake

Living The High Life At Devil’s Lake

Posted July 28, 2008 at 11:12 am · Comments { 6 } ·

Old School and I made our respective returns from surgery to the sharp end at Devil’s Lake yesterday. I decided to leave my camera behind so my words will have to suffice…for the most part.

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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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Happy Boulders: Hulk [Ego Crush]

Happy Boulders: Hulk [Ego Crush]

Posted July 18, 2008 at 7:04 am · Comments { 4 } · Photo: Tim Kettering

To conclude this series of posts, let me recount one of my more unpleasant experiences during my trip to Bishop. One of the more well known moderate lines at the Happy Boulders is Hulk. The Dr. Topo guide gave it V6, but I have seen it other places as low as V4. Why is this important? Because I got totally shutdown, that’s why.

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Buttermilks: Soulslinger

Buttermilks: Soulslinger

Posted July 17, 2008 at 6:52 am · Comments { 6 } ·

Soulslinger. One of the Buttermilks’s most iconic problems. At V9 it is tops on the ticklist of many who aspire to climb hard problems, but cannot pull down on double digit testpieces like The Mandala (V12) or Stained Glass (V10). Like many of the problems at the Buttermilks, it has a convenient boulder adjacent to it that gets you in perfect position to take killer top-down photos.

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Buttermilks: Cave Problem

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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