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| Pad Stashing in RMNP |
| Published: August 1, 2007, 3:02 pm |
| Tags: Bouldering, Access, Rmnp, Access Fund |
| in the day when I visited RMNP to explore the alpine bouldering there was to be done there, I distinctly remember seeing some pads around the boulders that curiously didn't seem to have any owners. There were only a handful of people bouldering in the Park on a given day back then so it was pretty easy to tell that these pads must have been |
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| More News & Notes |
| Published: July 30, 2007, 5:50 pm |
| Tags: Dave Graham, Red River Gorge, Lisa Rands, Rmnp |
| Graham on Skyscraper V3, RMNPPhoto: Nick SagarThis past weekend Lisa Rands was apparently on NBC's Jeep World of Adventure Sports. I dutifully DVR'ed the show because I thought I remembered reading that she would be on. Saturday night, I started up the show and saw no mention of anything climbing related in the sports desk update/intro and |
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| Kelly McBride Sends V11 |
| Published: July 26, 2007, 8:20 am |
| Tags: Bouldering, Rmnp, Climbing News |
| Props to Kelly McBride for sending Kind Traverse (V11) at Emerald Lake in RMNP. Nice Work!Photo (of practice sending) by sock handsPretty strong for someone from Wisconsin. |
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| Wade David |
| Published: July 24, 2007, 4:30 pm |
| Tags: Seth Allred, Rmnp, Climbing Sites, Wade David, Simon Moore, Climbing Videos |
| Squeezed (V12 or 13) in RMNP: Simon Moore on Freshly Squeezed in RMNP. Click the picture to watch the video. Photo: Wade DavidWhile we are talking about Freshly Squeezed, here is a bonus video of Seth Allred climbing it as well (observe the different sequence used). Also, what is the deal with the grade of this problem? Consensus on 8a |
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| News & Notes |
| Published: July 23, 2007, 8:21 am |
| Tags: Ty Landman, Pictures, Mt Evans, Seth Allred, Rmnp, Jon Cardwell, Climbing News, Climbing Videos |
| A few quick hitters:Jon Cardwell has been having a good run out in Europe. In the past month he has done 4 .14b's. Most recently he completed La Chronique de la Haine at Ceuse.Alan Moore recently sent The Gay Science (.13d), Gayness (.14a) and Zulu (.14a) at Rifle in the same day.If you haven't read it already, you should check out my post on |
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| Ty Landman's "Hour of Chaos" |
| Published: August 8, 2007, 10:48 am |
| Tags: Ty Landman, Bouldering, Rmnp, Climbing News |
| Here is an excerpt from a nice write-up Ty did for moonclimbing.com about his recent repeat of Jade (V15): I chalked my hands and arranged my hands on the start holds. I pulled on and entered a zone that I rarely visit. It felt as though I was almost under sea floating towards the surface. I executed the move and saw the light at the |
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| Ty Landman's "Hour of Chaos" |
| Published: August 8, 2007, 10:48 am |
| Tags: Ty Landman, Rmnp, Climbing News, Bouldering |
| Here is an excerpt from a nice write-up Ty did for moonclimbing.com about his recent repeat of Jade (V15): I chalked my hands and arranged my hands on the start holds. I pulled on and entered a zone that I rarely visit. It felt as though I was almost under sea floating towards the surface. I executed the move and saw the light at the end |
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| Pad Stashing in RMNP |
| Published: August 1, 2007, 3:02 pm |
| Tags: Access Fund, Rmnp, Bouldering, Access |
| in the day when I visited RMNP to explore the alpine bouldering there was to be done there, I distinctly remember seeing some pads around the boulders that curiously didn’t seem to have any owners. There were only a handful of people bouldering in the Park on a given day back then so it was pretty easy to tell that these pads must have |
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| And Then There Were None? |
| Published: August 22, 2007, 7:35 am |
| Tags: Sean Mccoll, Rmnp, Climbing News, Bouldering |
| Woods’s Aslan (V14) in RMNP. This brings the number of unrepeated problems in the Park to 0…for now. The 23 move problem is not typical of the other short power problems that the Park is known for. Check out this old post for more info on the problem and some video of Daniel Woods on it. Photo: WoodsFamilyCimbs Bouldering, |
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| News & Notes - 08/27/2007 |
| Published: August 27, 2007, 8:15 am |
| Tags: Rmnp, Ty Landman, Sonnie Trotter, Daniel Woods, Climbing News, Bouldering, Paul Robinson, Competition |
| of Jade (V15 for now) in RMNP. The day after the Jade send, Paul did the second ascent of Chris Schulte’s new V13 Child Stars SDS at Mt. Evans. And to cap off the week, he made a quick repeat of Daniel Woods’s new line The Lockness Monster. Nice Work Paul! Paul on Jade Photo: Woodsfamilyclimbs |
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| Freaks of the Industry |
| Published: August 29, 2007, 7:46 am |
| Tags: Rmnp, Climbing News, Paul Robinson, Bouldering |
| Freaks of the Industry at RMNP, CO was first climbed by James Litz in 2003 and has been repeated several times. Is it V13 or V14? I guess that de... |
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| Front Range Freaks? |
| Published: September 21, 2007, 1:00 pm |
| Tags: Rmnp, Access |
| destinations such as RMNP and Mt. Evans. The latest string of semi-anonymous online insults back and forth on the issue were started after Ben Safdi requested the return of his friend’s (not from this country) bouldering gear that was removed/stolen from RMNP. DG (Dave Graham?) weighs in at one point…and conflates being |
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| Nuthin' But Sunshine |
| Published: September 25, 2007, 4:59 pm |
| Tags: Ty Landman, Rmnp, Climbing Videos |
| I visited RMNP back in 2001 one of things I was looking forward to was checking out some of the harder problems that I had spent the prior year reading about. I wasn’t looking forward to it because I thought that I would be strong enough to climb any of these problems, far from it. It was mainly because I was interested in seeing just |
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| Monday Morning Video |
| Published: October 1, 2007, 8:05 am |
| Tags: Bouldering, Rmnp |
| (V12) at Emerald Lake in RMNP, CO. You can also read their rather humorous recap of the comp at this past weekend’s “Horsetooth Hang” event at the Horsetooth Resevoir in Ft. Collins. Related PostsNews & Notes - 9/17/2007Let's get back to the spray... Paul Robinson made the 2nd ascent of Harry Roberton's |
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| Jamie Emerson Sends Automator (V13) |
| Published: October 15, 2007, 7:51 pm |
| Tags: Bouldering, Climbing Videos, Featured, Jamie Emerson, Rmnp |
| Related PostsFreaks of the IndustryPaul Robinson added Freaks of the Industry (V13) to his impressive ticklist yesterday. That means that in the past 8 days he has done 1 V15, 3 V13s,...Envy & Joe’s Valley BoulderingFirst off, despite the fact that I tend to read way too much about climbers and know more about their sends than they |
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