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Brief climbing news and notes from the past week delivered every Wednesday: Petzl RocTrip recaps this past weekend at the Red Steph Davis free solos Diamond four times Wheel of Life (V16) repeated Potential 5.15a in Rumney, NH Climber dies at Poke-O-Moonshine in the Adirondacks, NY (via rockclimbing.com) Slovenian-American team completed a highly productive visit […]
Here’s a quick collection of climbing news from the last week. Enjoy. Huber brothers break speed record of El Capitan’s The Nose. Hound Ears results are in from the first event of Triple Crown 2007. New climbing DVD, Committed, released. Big Up‘s King Lines trailer can now be found on Apple.com website. Canadian Maxime Turgeon […]
The U.S. Army Corp of Engineers, renowned for constructing numerous man-made lakes, has set new safety regulations banning cliff jumping and diving at their sites in the Huntington District in West Virginia, including the Summersville Lake climbing area. It’s this kind of proactive measure that resonates with the principles upheld by fire watch services in […]
Another great New River Rendezvous is over and I survived. The emphasis was on survival this year especially after the free beer did not run out early as I expected. Note to self – don’t try to consume as much as possible next year! I didn’t take any pictures of the happenings at Burnwood (as […]
Getting ready to head out for the New River Rendezvous this weekend. Look for a full report next week. I’ll be taking lots of pictures.
The dates have been set for a while (May 18-20), but there’s now a web site with tons of details on this year’s New River Rendezvous. If you haven’t attended, this is a premier climbing event held at the Burnwood facilities on the rim of the New River Gorge in West Virginia. I attended last […]
For those climbers in the Blacksburg area, Jason Kehl will be presenting a slideshow Friday, February 23 at 8pm at Blue Ridge Outdoors. The event is sponsored by the Virginia Tech Climbing Club. Technorati Tags: blacksburg, climbing, event, slideshow, virginia
The New River Alliance of Climbers is holding a cleanup event for the bouldering area at Beauty Mountain in the New River Gorge, West Virginia. The effort is this Saturday and Sunday, February 10 and 11. Interested climbers can meet at the National Park Service’s Burnwood facility at 9am. UPDATE: Due to the weather, the […]
I just received the following information from Friends of Forester: The rock climbing community lost a legendary climber and environmental advocate on November 24 when Jimmy Ray Forester fell while climbing in El Potrero Chico in northern Mexico. Forester, an experienced, talented and well-known climber, failed to return to camp after a climb on El […]
Much has been going around the internet about Todd Skinner’s death Monday while rapping off the Leaning Tower in Yosemite. I received an email today from a climbing partner who just moved out to California. His friend and fiance were on Leaning Tower right before Skinner. They were rapping down as he was jugging up and […]