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Climbing, Adventure, Gear & Choss
sport climbing
The Sport Climbing Toolkit
We’ve spent much of the summer in town this year, enjoying several of the good local sport crags. As such, I’ve gotten my sport climbing systems fully dialed, and present to you my Sport Climbing Toolkit.
Trad is Rad…Or is It?
Sitting outside at a popular Moab watering hole, I couldn’t help but laugh. The shirt was clever enough, on the front, “trad is rad”, on the back “your moma’s a sport climber,” but that wasn’t it. What made me chuckle was that this guy was probably just in Indian Creek, thinking he was climbing some rad trad. And maybe he was, but probably like the rest of us he was sport climbing on gear.
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 […]
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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