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Sport Climbing: From Top Rope to Redpoint
I love climbing, in all it’s varieties: Sport, Trad, Ice, Bouldering, Aid. It’s all fun, and you can learn valuable things from each. I always laugh when I see people calling themselves “Trad” or “Sport” climbers, haven’t they gotten it yet? It’s all climbing, it’s all great. That being said, I learned to climb on […]
Sport Climbing, From Top Rope to Redpoint
As a climber with trad roots, sport climbing has always been fun but I’ve never taken it too seriously. When I look around, however, all the guys I know who climb the hardest trad routes put in some serious time clipping bolts, getting strong on steep choss and then taking that strength to the trad […]
New Zion Climbing Guidebook Review
By Mike Schneiter The long-rumored and long-awaited climbing guidebook to Zion National Park has finally hit the shelves. For years, there has been no real guide to this sandstone big wall mecca. Sure, sparse information could be gleaned from overview guidebooks such as Desert Rock, but McAfee’s Zion Rock wasn’t worth the paper it was […]
Bulldog Creek Dog Walk (IV WI 4+)
Hayden Carpenter and Tom Bohanon recently repeated an obscure ice climb on the south side of Mt Sopris. Given a brief mention in Jack Robert’s ice guide, Bulldog Creek Walk is described as being 100 meters of WI 4. What they found was seven pitches of ice in a remote setting that makes for one […]
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