So after we checked out the Tatlanika boulder we needed to head back to
Fairbanks and pick up new friend Brian Bosac. Perhaps this driving back
to Fairbanks was a good thing because for the next couple of days all of
AK was raining and we just prepped the car for the adventure to
come.
Once we got back on the road we stopped and tracked down the
Rock Creek boulders which was far more of a logistical challenge than
we were expecting. Aft ...
The Mega Zippers that make life easy when you are traveling
less than light
Couldn't resist sharing this 7a+ with you
Photo: A. Savage
Bonjour seems the appropriate greeting as I am headed out to
Fontainebleau the birthplace of Bouldering as we know it. F ...
In December I was still in the Red and I found that sport-climbing and
the winter time are not the best matches. Sport-climbing ends up just
being to time consuming and when you only get to warm up and the try the
route your psyched once and maybe a second time if your lucky then it
just isn't enough climbing. I think sport climbing is better left for
the longer days of summer when its too hot to grab the itsie bittsies on
boulders. I held out un ...
While I was getting to wrestle with some cobbles in Maple Canyon's
Pipe Dream cave I was able to hangout with some very cool Austrians. One
of them is a great photographer and great climber named
Jakob Schrödel
. Jakob took a couple shots of me sending the routes 'Squeal Like a
Pig 5.13c' & 'Sprout 5.13a'. Enjoy and I will post more news from
the Red ...
