Today was a beautiful day, so I went up to Flagstaff Mountain to get a
day of outdoor climbing in and hang out with my friends. After hiking
around I discovered an amazing boulder with two obvious projects on it.
After messing around on the left one I discovered a sequence that
works, and a few tries later it was in the bag. I ended up calling in
Botslayer and think the grade is around V10. Here is a picture of the
crux move:
Gabor Szekely
This past week I spent my spring break in Joe's Valley, Utah, with my
friend Zack Smith. We drove down on Saturday and it took about 7 hours
to get there. The area is truly amazing with some of the best rock I
have ever seen, not too sharp but very solid and aesthetic lines. My
main goal for the trip was to try the Masterpiece, V13, so on our first
day I hiked up to take a look at it. The hike was more epic then I was
expecting so I didn't actual ...
Today was finally a nice sunny day here in Boulder, so instead of going
to the gym again I went out to Eldorado Canyon with my friend Sticcs.
Since we didnt want to make the hike to the Lost boulder, I decided to
get on The Heist, a problem I almost did last year but never really
finished up. This problem follows a line of cracks up a nice 45 degree
wall, with a crimpy crux right at the end. In total it is around 16
moves long and clocks in at V1 ...
Last weekend I competed in the 2010 ABS Nationals in Alexandria,
Virginia. I had been training a bit before the comp, focusing my
sessions on comp style problems and climbing with Paul and Daniel a
bunch. Unfortunately I got sick jsut before the comp, not too bad but
just enough to affect my performance. The qualifier problems were very
well set, with a good variety of powerful and technical problems. I was
able to qualify for finals in 9th place ...
Check out this latest interview with one of my key sponsors Redpoint
Nutrition!http://climbingholdreview.blogspot.com/2010/02/interview-redpoint-nutrition_15.html
Here is a video that my friend Joe Kinder recently produced about the La
Sportiva Solution. Check it out !
Daniel Woods Loves the Solution from
Daniel Woods Loves the Solution from
Last weekend, I competed in the final competition in the SBS Bouldering Series at the Spot gym. For the past few weeks I haven't seriously been training for ...
Yesterday I competed in the Highball Competition at The Spot. After
coming in third in the qualifiers, I entered finals with hopes of a
difficult, finals problem. The finals turned out to be way too easy,
around V9, and three of us ended up doing it, all flash. Since they beat
me in the qualifiers, I ended up coming in third place. Paul Robinson
won and Adam Markert got second. Here is a video of me in the finals,
courtesy of Jeff McKinnon:
Here is the video of me climbing Direction, V13 and Haroun and the Sea
of Stories, V12 in Bishop. Check it out !http://www.deadpointmag.com/dpm-hd/78-gabor-szekely-on-direction-and-heroun
Yesterday I felt sick all day so I took a rest day to heal up, but today
I felt a lot better so I decided to go climb. I spent the day trying my
project Direction, V13, and ended up falling off the finish move three
times with no success.
