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Alaska

Posted on 29. Jul, 2011 by B3.

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The bouldering at Hatcher Pass is spread out. Small clusters of problems are sometimes separated by 45 minutes or more of hiking. Our car won’t make it up to the boulders, so depending on where we are climbing, we have to walk up the road, which can add another 45 minutes of hiking to the [...]

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Rest Day

Posted on 28. Jul, 2011 by B3.

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Rest days in Alaska might be better than climbing days. There are any number of oustanding things to do here, almost all of which involve getting outside. We decided to get out on a boat tour of Prince William Sound. The weather was perfect, and we saw six Humpback whales, Stellar sea lions, Harbor seals, [...]

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Alaska

Posted on 27. Jul, 2011 by B3.

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There is so much rock here that it is impossible to resist the temptation to hike and look for some good projects. Part of the allure of spending time in a place like Alaska is going to an entirely new range of mountains and hiking, exploring and bouldering. This trip is somewhat of a recon [...]

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Alaska

Posted on 25. Jul, 2011 by B3.

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After our wet but exciting first day, our hopes were high that we would soon get to climb some of the nice projects. The weather was sunny and we decided to stop by Drive By V10, which is a great problem right off the road. It’s nice to have some hard established problems to test [...]

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Alaska

Posted on 21. Jul, 2011 by B3.

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Sunday Brian Capps and I left for Alaska, to explore the bouldering around the state. We left Boulder knowing there could be a lack of rock, an abundance of mosquitos, and a lot of hiking for relatively little reward. For me the opportunity to go to such an amazing place with the potential of finding [...]

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Alaska

Posted on 15. Jul, 2011 by B3.

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On Sunday, Brian Capps and I are leaving for two weeks to one of the most beautiful places in the world, Alaska. We are going in hopes of putting up some amazing new bouldering, to hike, to view the animals, to fish and simply to experience all there is to experience in The Land of [...]

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Comment on Evil Backwards from Daniel Woods

Posted on 10. Jul, 2011 by B3.

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Daniel Woods, the first ascentionist of Evil Backwards, has posted a comment which I think deserves proper attention. Here is what he has to say: I went up to Lincoln Lake today and checked out Evil Backwards. I was shocked with how much larger 2 of the crux holds were. The left hand sidepull that [...]

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Evil Backwards

Posted on 07. Jul, 2011 by B3.

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Last year, after much effort, I climbed Evil Backwards V14 at Lincoln Lake. This remains the hardest bit of climbing I have ever done. What has not remained is the climb itself. After I repeated it I expected others to downrate it, perhaps for competitive reasons, or perhaps because they felt that it wasn’t that [...]

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New Boulders

Posted on 06. Jul, 2011 by B3.

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Lately I’ve been very busy with the guidebook, but this weekend I did get outside to do some climbing and exploring. My trip to Alaska is less than two weeks away, and my emphasis right now is on developing new problems (which I think is a practice that can be honed), hiking, and good gym [...]