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Guidebook Update

Posted on 15. Aug, 2011 by B3.

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Just a quick update on the guidebook. The pre-orders have all been shipped out, and if you were in the first 100 or so people, you should have or be getting your book soon! For those of you who are waiting, the remainder of the books should arrive around Aug 22. It will be then [...]

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Alpine Bouldering

Posted on 08. Aug, 2011 by B3.

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This summer has been a great year for bouldering development in the alpine realms, not only in Colorado, but around the country as well. For a number of years, Colorado was one of the only places in the US that had a legitimate alpine bouldering destination, Rocky Mountain National Park. This was followed (in a [...]

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Alaska-Final Days

Posted on 03. Aug, 2011 by B3.

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After Denali we were hoping to get a few more climbing days in before we left. Ander Rockstad, from Fairbanks joined us on Saturday. It was wet and try as we might we could not get the big arete in the Fairangel Gully dried. We did find some other things in the talus that were [...]

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Alaska

Posted on 02. Aug, 2011 by B3.

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After all of this climbing we decided to take another rest day, this time in Denali National Park. We rode a shuttle bus to Eielson Visitor Center and along the way there and back observed 7 brown bears, 4 or 5 caribou, a fox, Dall Sheep and Mountain Goats. The scenery driving to Denali from [...]

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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 [...]