Yesterday, the Hallett boulder, ~3300m above sea level, in the RMNP,
saw some action. Alex Puccio flashed Fireball, 7C+, making it look easy,
according to Jamie Emerson. Very few women have flashed this grade.
Chris Webb-Parsons, who was there too, now felt he needed to "woman
up" and promptly flashed Stranger in a strange land, 8A+. Chris
says he was just lucky, but if you consider he just bounced back from a
flu and that he's been, in his own words "spent almost 2 months
sitting on a couch...
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Yesterday, the Hallett boulder, ~3300m above sea level, in the RMNP,
saw some action. Alex Puccio flashed Fireball, 7C+, making it look easy,
according to Jamie Emerson. Very few women have flashed this grade.
Chris Webb-Parsons, who was there too, now felt he needed to "woman
up" and promptly flashed Stranger in a strange land, 8A+. Chris
says he was just lucky, but if you consider he just bounced back from a
flu and that he's been, in his own words "spent almost 2 months
sitting on a couch...
Andy Gullsten has now spent three weeks or so in the Averstal/Magic
wood. The weather hasn't exactly been on the 18-year-young Finn's side,
but it seems it's got at least slightly better. Yesterday he did
Steppenwolf, for his second 8B of the trip. The first was One summer in
paradise, which is an extension to Pura vida, traversing more or less
the whole block from left to right, before getting to the spicy
finishing crux. Last week, Sakari McGregor reported Andy was getting
really close...
Swiss climbing photographer and, according to reliable sources,
exceptional osteopath, Fred Moix recently managed to send a nice couple
of boulders at Fionnay. First he made the 3rd ascent of the majestic
Permanent Midnight, an 8B highball, and then the also 3rd ascent of
Seveso , a low end 8B (according to Fred). These two boulders were both
previously climbed by Dave Graham and Romain Desgranges. Fred is no
stranger to 3rd ascents after these two chaps, having also done
previously the 3rd of...
Fri Night Vid: Adrian Baxter climbs Tuppence (F8b)
UKClimbing.com News 2010-06-25 | Reads 31 (cached version)Honnold Links Half Dome and El Cap in 8 Hours
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Alex Honnold has soloed the Regular Northwest Face
(VI 5.12a, 23 pitches) on Half Dome and The Nose
(VI 5.9 C1, 31 pitches) on El Capitan in Yosemite, California - taking
just over eight hours for both routes. "We chatted a while and he walked off to the Nose, with a considerable rack and a rope. He muttered something about having read Han's book about speed climbing last night and was eager to see how the roped solo stuff would work for him..."
Bouldering World Cup This Weekend: Live Stream
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Nina Caprez has switched from multi-pitch climbing on Sardinia, to
single pitch climbing at Céüse. Some of the pitches here are
mighty long though... and as she felt she was used to it, she decided to
try The black bean, a 70m monster of an 8b+. Unfortunately it started
raining after her first try on it, and she had to wait. After a few
days she returned and found it wet... so, while it was drying she did Le
chirurgien du crepuscule, a really hard 8b and not exactly a boulder
problem either,...
Over a hundred climbers have registered for this year's BMC British
Bouldering Championships to be held this weekend in Millhouses Park,
Abbeydale, Sheffield. The BBC's are over two days and are being held in the same marquee and competition wall as the following weekend's IFSC Bouldering World Cup being held at the Cliffhanger Festival.
Ethan Pringle has made the 3rd ascent of Dai Koyamada's +65 mover The
wheel of life in the Hollow mountain cave, Grampians, Oz. Dai, who gave
it 8C+, felt it would warrant a route grade of 9a+, whereas Ethan, who's
quite a bit taller (don't know if it makes any difference) feels 9a is
closer to the mark. But then again, he felt Biographie/Realization was
9a too, so who knows... I'll try to get a hold of the man for a short
interview asap. Source: 8a
I mentioned yesterday, Brion Voges had a low gravity day in the RMNP,
dispatching Don't get too greedy, 8B, Top notch, 8B, and The Centaur,
8A+. As usual, Jimmy Webb was handy with his handy cam and caught it on
video. With the snow melting fast, and with people like Graham, Cardwell
and Jorgeson getting back in the bouldering game things are bound to be
heating up in the park.


