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Women in Climbing

Posted on 22. Feb, 2010 by B3.

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In 1994 Lynn Hill free climbed The Nose on El Capitan in a day, a stunning feat that is clearly one of the greatest achievements in rock climbing history. Not only did she climb the first ascent of one of the hardest routes in America at the time, (it went unrepeated for 10 years [...]

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ABS Nationals-Commentary

Posted on 17. Feb, 2010 by B3.

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I haven’t devoted much of the writing on this blog to course setting, although for the last 8 years I have been involved in many of major climbing competitions in the US, including the World Cup in 2008 and 2009. All week the conversation among our routesetting crew revolved around a myriad of issues [...]

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Secrets

Posted on 24. Nov, 2009 by B3.

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When I first moved to Colorado, Mt. Evans was virtually unknown. For almost three years, only a handful of boulderers visited the area and I was lucky enough to be one of them. I was asked to keep the place a secret by the climbers who found it. This put me in a [...]

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B3 boulders

Posted on 05. Oct, 2009 by B3.

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Part of the appeal of traveling to a place like South Dakota, for me, is that the area is home to several John Gill problems and the existence of a classic unrepeated problem, King of Town. In regards to Gill, for those who don’t know, he basically invented the activity of modern [...]

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The Star System

Posted on 19. Jan, 2009 by B3.

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In 2001 Brian Capps was in Squamish bouldering with Matt Wilder. They had scoped out an amazing project known locally as “The Room Project”. They felt that this project had all the attributes of a classic boulder problem: an obvious starting hold, a flat landing, a nice setting, excellent rock quality, an obvious line, and [...]

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Goals

Posted on 13. Jan, 2009 by B3.

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Perhaps bouldering is really about what you haven’t done, and not what you have.

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2008: A Year of Ascents

Posted on 22. Dec, 2008 by B3.

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A chance to look back on 2008, from the first bouldering World Cup to hit Colorado, to monumental sends by elite females.

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Grades

Posted on 15. Dec, 2008 by B3.

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It’s a topic many of us enjoy talking about, and no one ever seems to have an answer. It seems to me that there is no solution, and perhaps thats why we all love to talk about it so much. I think grades, at best, are a great [...]

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Colorado Guide Book II

Posted on 14. Aug, 2008 by B3.

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In the last few days I have been working with the Northern Colorado Climbers Coalition in an attempt to figure out the best way to deal with the new book. As I understand it, the book is printed and Falcon Press is ready to move forward with getting this pile of mis-information out to [...]

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The Colorado Bouldering Guidebook

Posted on 11. Aug, 2008 by B3.

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As I was walking down the endless rows of vendors today at the Trade Show, I happened to walk by Falcon Publishing and lo and behold there it was, Colorado Bouldering by Bob Horan. I flipped through the book in 20 minutes or so and what I saw was appalling, embarrassing, and the source of [...]