Southern Colorado

Southern Colorado

Posted on 10. Nov, 2008 by .

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Saturday we marched back down to the Wet Mountains. I wanted to finish cleaning off the arete I found last weekend and maybe give it some effort. I didn’t sleep very well Friday night and I was off to a slow start in the morning. Several people were psyched to try The Nickness, a V10 [...]

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Southern Colorado

Southern Colorado

Posted on 05. Nov, 2008 by .

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Saturday I went to an obscure area in Southern Colorado, in the Wet Mountains. The rock there is very nice, but it is a long 3 hour drive from Boulder. A nice diversion this time of year as the weather is perpetually threatening to shut down the alpine areas. It was a mellow but fun [...]

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Triple Crown

Posted on 03. Nov, 2008 by .

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Congrats to locals Jimmy Webb and Kate McGinnis for winning the HP40 portion of this years Triple Crown! Well done! Open Men 1 Jimmy Webb 11,389 2 Joshua Reyes 10,305 3 Brian Antheunisse 9,915 Open Women 1 Kate McGinnis 8,891 2 Alex Puccio 8,761 3 Alex Johnson 7,525

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The Island

The Island

Posted on 31. Oct, 2008 by .

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Nalle Hukkataival has made the second ascent of the Island V15 in Fontainebleau. Dave Graham did the first ascent this spring while we were in France. This is a stunning boulder problem, one of the best we saw in Font. Both of Dave’s other testpieces, From the Dirt Grows the Flowers, in Chironico and The [...]

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Poudre Canyon

Posted on 29. Oct, 2008 by .

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Sunday was a brilliant fall day and I went to the Poudre with my good friend Brian Camp. I wanted to try to climb Canopener, which has broken several times recently. Canopener was the first V10 I ever climbed and it has a special place in my heart. The starting jug had broken off a [...]

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The South

The South

Posted on 28. Oct, 2008 by .

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Last year the first stop on our road trip lead us to a new area called Dayton, near Chattanooga, TN. After a quick tour from the locals I decided to hike a little further and I found an absolutely amazing project. I spent an afternoon rappelling and cleaning it, but we had to leave a [...]

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Mt. Evans

Posted on 27. Oct, 2008 by .

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Video courtesy of Jason Pinto by double clicking the video you can go to Youtube.com where you can choose to watch a higher quality version of what is here. Saturday I finished off No More Greener Grasses at Mt. Evans! So psyched! More on this great day below.

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Mt. Evans

Mt. Evans

Posted on 27. Oct, 2008 by .

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In 2003 nothing at Mt. Evans more difficult than V9 had been climbed. While there were many obvious and hard projects there, one stood head and shoulders above the rest. Ben Scott and I had always referred to it as “The Lime Wall Project”. This was a stunning and pure line of difficult climbing up [...]

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Vedauwoo

Posted on 20. Oct, 2008 by .

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I was sore this morning and I went to Vedauwoo by myself. It was a long and quiet drive. To be honest I miss having the old crew around and somehow lonely Wyoming seemed to be an appropriate choice today. My sights were set on Cumulus, a problem put up a while back by local [...]

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News

Posted on 19. Oct, 2008 by .

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Alex Puccio has made the first female ascent of Trice V12 on Flagstaff Mountain. This comes after climbing Clear Blue Skies V12 at Mt. Evans on Thursday. This is certainly one of the most impressive weeks any female boulderer has ever had. Well Done!

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